Thomesin (Harris) Purchas (abt. 1556)

Born about 1556 in Dorchester, Dorset, England [uncertain]

Wife of Oliver Purchase — married 21 Jun 1577 in Dorchester, Dorset, England

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in England [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth estimated at 1556, 21 years before marriage, perhaps at Dorchester where she was married.

Marriage: At Holy Trinity Parish, Dorchester, co. Dorset, England, on 21 June 1577, Oliver Purchas married Thomesin Harris.^[1][2][3]

Death: Unknown

Children

• Joan Purchase. From a Bernard Capen Bible Record, bible printed 1615. "Bernard Capen maryed Joan ye dafter of Oliver Purchis, ye yeer of of Lord, 1596, on munday, in whitson week, & dyed ye 8 of November, 1638, age 76." and "Joan Capen, ye daughter of Oleuer Purchis dyed ye 26 of March, 1653, ye night before, aged 75 yeers.^[4]
• Thomas Purchase^[5]
• Aquila Purchase (See Thomas)
• Sarah Purchase, aka Unknown daughter, who married George Way. George's will names his wife Sarah and calls Thomas Purchase his brother in law.^[6] Anderson knew this. Why didn't he call her Sarah?
• Robert the sonne of Oliver PURCHASE was baptized the xxixth [29th] of October 1581 [Note:- Oliver PURCHASE & Thomesin HARRIS were married 21-Jun 1577]^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Dorset Online Parish Clerks Marriages Holy Trinity Dorchester (OPC Note:- Baptism records for the period Jan 1578/9 through to Sep 1580 have not survived and it is thought by Rose Troupe and the Rev RG Bartelot that Thomas Purchase the investor in the Dorchester Company was probably his son born & baptised during this period. Their next child Robert Purchase was baptised at Holy Trinity on 29th Oct 1581.)
2. ↑ https://www.freereg.org.uk Search with appropriate parameters.
3. ↑ Dorset parish registers. Marriages, Volume 7, published 1914. Reference page 3
4. ↑ "Capen Bible Record." The New England Historical & Genealogical Register]] (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass.) Vol. 2, Page 80 See attached image.
5. ↑ Explanation from Anderson: In 1641, George Way called Thomas Purchase his brother-in-law. George Way's son Eliezer called Thomas his uncle. "In his will, Thomas Purchase named his cousin Mr. Oliver Purchase of Hammersmith and his cousin Edward Alline of Boston. 'Mr. Oliver Purchase of Hamersmith' was son of Aquila Purchase, who was probably brother of Thomas Purchase. Edward Alline married Martha Way at Boston 7 May 1652, almost certainly daughter of George Way." Bernard Capen m. Joan Purchase dtr of Oliver. "The most economical interpretation of this collection of records is that there were four Purchase siblings, children of Oliver Purchase, born over a period from the later 1570s, through the 1580s and perhaps into the 1590s: Joan Purchase, who married Bernard Capen, Thomas Purchase; Aquila Purchase; and an unnamed daughter who married George Way." (Src: The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). https://www.americanancestors.org/DB393/i/12107/1532/23895891))
6. ↑ Waters, Henry F. Genealogical gleanings in England vol 1. (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1901) p. 310
7. ↑ Dorset Online Parish Clerk Holy Trinity Baptisms

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