PaulaToo's Scavenger Hunt - Everyone Welcome To Join In.

[behindthefrogs]

It's probably not relevant but I found a mention of Thomas Purchase in the following will

http://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/az/wtext/soundy_007.html

David

[PaulaToo]

Thanks for that David, in a case like this you never know what will help.
I love,
Item...one Little horse...£1-2-0
Ahhhhhh

They say every cloud has a silver lining...I have just found a missing Green in the Winslow Baptisms....so that's where they came from.
That's given him a baptism date, and the name of his parents. 

[toni*]

found it 

although i pm'd you the info now

[PaulaToo]

Just found another Rev Purches... although I should say I've rediscovered him...
For those who know the Eliza Ann Smith saga 
For those who don't...you don't want to.

Suffice it to say, we were having a look at the Eliza Ann papers...
Reading down her marriage cert, bride and groom both of full age, only we know she was only 18, and looked at the name of the cleric who married her to Henry Moore....or someone calling himself Henry Moore,  in 1858.....

It was George C Purches....
I couldn't believe my eyes, well, after I stopped laughing.

[Lesanne]

 

[Rabbit B]

 

[PaulaToo]

Well you've got to  haven't you... them Rev Purchases get everywhere, even straying over to the other side of the family.........

[toni*]

onto George then - is he related ?
 

[PaulaToo]

  He may be somewhere dim and distant, toni*, but I don't think I'll bother with him. Too much trouble trying to find where Richard of Winslow came from...if it wasn't Winslow.
Still haven't tracked him down in 'villages ajacent.' Never mind, one day I'll be looking down a register and there it will be, the marriage of Richard and Ruth.
I think it will be in Bucks, the country was very well covered in the list you sent me, except for Bucks, and I reckon he did, what my Bucks lot seem to like doing... just moved down the road a little way...