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

[PaulaToo]

Claire I am thrilled to bits.
God bless Mary Gurney.
Bless you too, for sharing your findings with us.
All the best and with many many thanks,
Paula

[Rabbit B]

Claire I am thrilled to bits.
God bless Mary Gurney.
Bless you too, for sharing your findings with us.
All the best and with many many thanks,
Paula

Hi Paula,
Some people get all the luck, but I am so very glad for you!
It couldn't happen to a nicer person

Rabbit B 

[PaulaToo]

Thanks Rabbit, I couldn't agree more    

[Rabbit B]

Thanks Rabbit, I couldn't agree more    

 

[bishenbertie]

This afternoon I have read all 22 pages of this thread, hoping that when I got to the last message we would know where Richard of Winslow was born and his marriage to Ruth.

Oh well another mystery to solve you never know in another 3 years it will be solved seeing as this hunt started in 2008.

[PaulaToo]

I have my doubts, bertie, I have my doubts 

I have tried everything I could think of, even looking for a Richard Purchas(any spelling) getting hitched to a gal callled Ruth ?
Nowhere in the country has one turned up ... yet.

They certainly didn't get married in Winslow, I've been through the register.
The only alternative is that they didn't get married, but as his son goes on to be the Rev Ric I somehow don't think that is likely.

[bishenbertie]

The info will turn up eventually Paula they can't hide forever unless of course they were rich and were baptised/married in a private chapel on some big estate somewhere.

[frederickay]

hi my friend is a purchas /purkiss . her uncle was a rev in norfolk  but i have seen name as purkiss in cumbria . havent read all you 22 pages so have just butted in .. wonder if you are related ??
 jan

[PaulaToo]

Hi Jan,
Problem with my lot, they seem to travel all round Bucks stopping for a generation or so in each town. They are hard to link up. In my case, Richard is already married, he seems to have stopped by Winslow to work and have his children, thus getting the name 'Richard of Winslow,' but there is no record of him in the Winslow registers before the christenings. Then of course, he moves on with his son Rev Richard Purchas, and ends up in North Marston in the mid 1700s.
If your friend comes across a Richard getting married to a Ruth? then I would love to know.

As bertie says, they are out there somewhere.