George Purefoy (1580 - 1628)

Descendants

Died 13 May 1628 at about age 48 in Buckinghamshire, England

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Biography

George, son of Nicholas Purefoy and Jane Vincent was born in about 1580.
He married firstly Mary Knightley in about 1604 and they had three sons, George, Edward and Valentine, and five daughters, Elizabeth, Joyce, Jane, Lucy and Ann
Secondly he married Dorothy, sister of Edward, Lord Denny. and thirdly he married Jane Roberts, daughter of Francis Roberts of Willesden and widow of Sir Thomas Glover of Hayes.
George died in Buckinghamshire in 1628 at the age of 45 and was buried at St Michael and All Angels Church, Fenny Drayton, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough, Leicestershire, England Fenny Drayton ^[1] There is a monument to him in the church ^[2] and others of the Purefoy Family.

Research Notes

Although well connected to many leading families of the time, there is little well documented evidence or sources. Will continue to search. Leicestershire and Rutland, England 1881 Kelly's Directory

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial 47622511. Created by: Robert C. Peurifoy Added: 5 Feb 2010
2. ↑ Leicestershire and Rutland, England :1912 Kelly's Directory

• Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

• Visitation of Berkshire Page 267 Purefoy of Wadley and Faringdon Says he was son of Edward Purefoy and Jane nee Purefoy
• Burke's LANDED GENTRY (1886), p. 644 has relevant pedigree of Purefoy