PUREFOY FAMILY
Born: ABT 1315, Misterton, Leicestershire, England
Died: AFT 1374
Father: William De PUREFOY
Mother: ¿?
Married: Margaret SHIRFORD ABY 1344
Children:
2. Thomas PUREFOY
Born: ABT 1355, Churchover, Warwickshire, England
Died: 24 Aug 1397, Churchover, Warwickshire, England
Father: Phillip PUREFOY
Mother: Margaret SHIRFORD
Married: ¿?
Children:
Born: ABT 1385, Ingestre, Staffordshire, England
Died: Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: ¿?
Married: Margaret CHETWYND (dau. of Sir William De Chetwynd y Aliva De St. Paul)
Children:
Born: ABT 1400, Drayton, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1455, Basset's Cross, Hatherleigh, Devon, England
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Margaret CHETWYND
Married 1: Marian AYOTT (b. 1375 - d. 1401) (dau. of Alan Ayott of Shalstone and Foxcote)
Children:
Married 2: Margaret De KNIGHTLEY
Born: ABT
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Marian AYOTT
Married: John FIELDING (son of William Fielding and Joan Prudhome)
Children:
1. William FIELDING (b. 1428 -d. 1471)(m. Agnes St. Liz)
Born: 1425, Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 1466, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Marian AYOTT
Married: Margery MOTON (dau. of Sir Robert De Moton and Elizabeth Mulsho)
Children:
2. John PUREFOY
3. William PUREFOY (b. 1449 - d. 1466)
Born: 1442, Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England
Died: 1468
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Margery MOTON
Married: Isabel BROME
Children:
1. Nicholas PUREFOY
2. John PUREFOY
3. William PUREFOY
4. Alice PUREFOY
Born: ABT 1450, Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 1491
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Margery MOTON
Married: Joan WISTOWE (d. 18 Feb 1547)
Children:
3. Thomas PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Born: ABT 1482, Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 3 Dec 1535
Father: John PUREFOY
Mother: Joan WISTOWE
Married: John SUTTON ABT 1492
Children:
Born: ABT 1476, Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 18 Feb 1547, Shalston, Buckingham, England
Buried: Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England
Notes: Nicholas had yet to reach his majority when his father John died. In 1491 he was still not 21 but he was married with a child in 1494, so he was born around 1473. After his father's death he was made a ward of John Denton. John had married Isabel Brome, his uncle Phillip's widow. Nicholas married the daughter of John and Isabel.
Father: John PUREFOY
Mother: Joan WISTOWE
Married 1: Clemence LIDIARD
Children:
1. Simon PUREFOY (b. ABT 1502 - d. 6 May 1570)
2. Susan PUREFOY
Married 2: Alice DENTON (dau. of John Denton and Isabel Brome)
Children:
Married 3: Catherine BRAYESFIELD (d. 6 May 1556) (dau. of Richard Brayesfield)
Children:
4. Isabel PUREFOY
5. Martyn PUREFOY
6. Francis PUREFOY
7. Simon PUREFOY (d. 1570)
Born: 13 Jun 1494, Shalston, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 1 Jun 1558, Shalston, Buckinghamshire, England
Father: Nicholas PUREFOY (Sir)
Mother: Alice DENTON
Married: Anne FETTIPLACE
Children:
1. Susan PUREFOY (Nun at Syon)
5. Edward PUREFOY (b. 1523 - d. 6 May 1539)
6. Nicholas PUREFOY
7. Henry PUREFOY
8. Catherine PUREFOY
9. Charles PUREFOY (b. 1531 - d. 6 May 1539)
11. Mary PUREFOY
12. Francis PUREFOY
13. Richard PUREFOY
14. Anne PUREFOY
15. Frances PUREFOY
Died: 1570
Notes: Eight manuscripts of Syon Abbey contain explicit ownership inscriptions. A printed copy of Catherine of Siena’s The Orcharde of Syon, bears the inscription on the final pastedown, ‘This boke perteynyth to syster Elyzabeth Stryckland, professyd in Syon’. Another book, a British Library incunable copy of Nicholas Love’s The Myrroure of the Blessed Lyf of Ihesu Cryste, contains‘Susan Purefeye owethe thys booke’. London, British Library, MS Harley 993 states,‘Thys boke is suster anne colvylle’ on the front flyleaf and‘D Anne Colvylle’ on the end leaf, in a formal hand. These statements of ownership from Elizabeth Strickland, Susan Purefoy, and Anne Colville imply that despite the prohibitions against private property, some concept of ownership existed among the Syon sisters, and that the sisters wanted to mark their ownership. Her name is among the 52 nuns who received a pension after the dissolution.
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Born: ABT Effield, Shalston, Leicestershire, England
Died: 9 Apr 1569
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Married: Humphrey BRADBORNE
Born: ABT Shalston, Buckinghamshire, England
Died: 9 May 1589, Yardley, Hastings, Northamptonshire, England
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Married: Thomas THORNE of Durham (b. 1536 - d. 1588) (son of William Thorne and Alice Denton)
Children:
1. Edward THORNE
2. Catherine THORNE
3. Arthur THORNE
4. Thorney THORNE
5. Sybil THORNE
6. Peter THORNE
7. Anne THORNE
8. Jane THORNE
9. William THORNE of Durham (Sir) (b. 1558 - d. 3 Dec 1603) (m. Grace Durham)
10. Susanna THORNE (m. Capt. Roger Dudley)
11. Robert THORNE
12. Isabel THORNE
13. Anthony THORNE
Buckinghamshire, England
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Married: Son SWILLINGTON
Born: ABT Effield, Shalston, Leicester, England
Died: 1579
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Married 1: Elizabeth BROME
Married 2: Anne WINDSOR ABT 1566
Died: 28 May 1549
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Married: ¿?
Died: 1564
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Married: Anne FURTHO (dau. of Anthony Furtho) (w. of Henry Gage)
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Married: Anne PELL (w. of Thomas Nicholls)
Hollingborne, Kent, England
Died: 5 Jul 1595
Father: Edward PUREFOY of Shalston
Mother: Anne FETTIPLACE
Married 1: Beatrix CHIBENHURST
Children:
1. Thomas PUREFOY
Married 2: Cicely GOODWYNN (dau. of John Goodwyn and Catherine Bledlow)
Children:
Married 3: Mary BOYS
13 Sep 1555
Died: 15 Mar 1594
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Cicely GOODWYNN
Married: Joyce PUREFOY 1580
Children:
1. George PUREFOY of Drayton and Shalston
George PUREFOY of Drayton and Shalston
Born: 1583
Died: 13 May 1628
Buried: St Michael and All Angels Church, Fenny Drayton, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough, Leicestershire, England
Father: Edward PUREFOY
Mother: Joyce PUREFOY
Married 1: Mary KNIGHTLEY (dau. of Valentine Knightley and Anne Unton)
Children:
1. George PUREFOY (b. 11 Jan 1605 - d. 28 Mar 1661) (m. Anne Glover)
2. Elizabeth PUREFOY (m. John Franklin)
3. Edward PUREFOY
4. Valentine PUREFOY
5. Joyce PUREFOY
6. Jane PUREFOY
7. Lucy PUREFOY
8. Anne PUREFOY
Married 2: Dorothy DENNY AFT 1617
Married 3: Jane ROBERTS (dau. of Francis Roberts of Willesden and Mary Barne) (w. of Sir Thomas Glover of Hayes) 1627
Thomas PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Born: 1472, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, England
Died: 12 May 1542
Father: John PUREFOY
Mother: Joan WISTOWE
Married: Margaret FITZHERBERT
Children:
2. Michael PUREFOY of Caldecote
3. Hugh PUREFOY
4. Anthony PUREFOY (slain at Oxford)
6. Isabella PUREFOY (Nun)
7. Dorothy PUREFOY (Nun)
8. Joan PUREFOY
Father: Thomas PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Mother: Margaret FITZHERBERT
Married: John RUDING Ardbury (Esq.)
Father: Thomas PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Mother: Margaret FITZHERBERT
Married: John STARESMORE (w.1 of Cassandra Fulke - w.2 of Mary Walshall) ABT 1520
Children:
1. Lucy STARESMORE (Associated with Sir Thomas Neville of Holt)
2. Margery STARESMORE
3. Thomas STARESMORE
4. Jane STARESMORE
5. Christian STARESMORE
6. William STARESMORE
7. Edmund STARESMORE
8. Walter STARESMORE
9. Michael STARESMORE
10. Edward STARESMORE
11. Joyce STARESMORE
Father: Thomas PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Mother: Margaret FITZHERBERT
Married: Thomas CAWARDEN
Died: 1551
Father: Thomas PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Mother: Margaret FITZHERBERT
Married: Anne BINGHAM (dau. of John Bingham and Anne Strelley)
Children:
Born: 1525, Effield, Shalston, Leicestershire, England
Died: 1543, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, England
Buried: Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, England
Father: Ralph PUREFOY of Drayton
Mother: Anne BINGHAM
Married: Jane VINCENT (dau. of George Vincent, MP, and Anne Slorey) (m.2 William Faunt)
Children:
1. Nicholas PUREFOY
2. George PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
George PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Died: 30 Aug 1593
Father: Nicholas PUREFOY
Mother: Jane VINCENT
Married: Elizabeth WHETELL (dau. of Thomas Whetell)
Children:
Died: 1596
Notes: only daughter and heir.
Father: George PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Mother: Elizabeth WHETELL
Married: Edward PUREFOY 1580
Children:
1. George PUREFOY of Drayton and Shalston
Notes: escheator for that county temp. Felipe II and Mary I. Ancestor of the Purefoys of Caldecote.
Born: 14 Mar 1497, Fenny Drayton, Leicestershire, England
Died: 21 Jul 1570
Father: Thomas PUREFOY of Drayton (Esq.)
Mother: Margaret FITZHERBERT
Married: Joyce HARDWICK (b. 1510 - d. 6 Mar 1585) (dau. of John Hardwick of Hardwick and Elizabeth Leke)
Children:
2. Humphrey PUREFOY of Barwell (Esq.)
4. George PUREFOY of Wolvershill
6. Frances PUREFOY
7. Dorothy PUREFOY
8. Jane PUREFOY
9. John PUREFOY
10. Arthur PUREFOY
11. Elizabeth PUREFOY
Born: 1531
Died: 1597
Father: Michael PUREFOY of Caldecote
Mother: Joyce HARDWICK
Married: Thomas WIGHTMAN of Stoke
Children:
1. Edward WIGHTMAN
Humphrey PUREFOY of Barwell (Esq.)
Born: BEF 1555
Died: 1598, Barwell, Leicestershire, England
Father: Michael PUREFOY of Caldecote
Mother: Joyce HARDWICK
Married: Alice FAUNT (b.1565 - d. 1585) (dau. of William Faunt and Anne Fielding)
Children:
Born: ABT 1578, Warwickshire, England
Died: BEF 1656, Elizabeth City, Colony of Virginia
Notes: came to Virginia from England in the "George" when he was 43 in 1621. In 1652, he was a member of the council. He was commissioner of Elizabeth City County in 1626, and was burgess of the lower part of Elizabeth City County 1629-1630. He was a member of the King's Council in 1631, and principal commander of Elizabeth City County in 1629. In 1635, the mutiny in Virginia was reported by this same Captain Purifoy.
Father: Humphrey PUREFOY of Barwell (Esq.)
Mother: Alice FAUNT
Married: Lucy RANSOM 1620, Leicestershire, England
Children:
1. Thomas PUREFOY
Died: Oct 1615, Wolvershill, Warwickshire, England
Notes: MP. Though he had family connexions with the earls of Shrewsbury, Leicester and Rutland, Purefoy no doubt owed his return at Beverley to his elder brother Humphrey, a law member of the council in the north, and an admirer of the lord president, the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon. He gradually built up a not inconsiderable estate for his son and heir, Gamaliel. All his land purchases, beginning in 1575 with a moiety of the manor of Bramcote, were of parts of the old Zouche estates, mostly in the parish of Bulkington. To Bramcote he added a moiety of Weston-in-Arden manor, and, in 1601, the manor of Wolvershill. He also bought a moiety of Wibtoft manor.
Father: Michael PUREFOY of Caldecote
Mother: Joyce HARDWICK
Married: Jane ZOUCHE
Children:
Born: 1579
Died: ABT 1661, Wolvershall, Warwickshire, England
Father: George PUREFOY of Wolvershill
Mother: Jane ZOUCHE
Married: Anne ASTON BEF 1622
Children:
1. George PUREFOY (b. ABT 1618 - d. AFT 1682)
Father: Michael PUREFOY of Caldecote
Mother: Joyce HARDWICK
Notes: It is not easy to explain Purefoy’s return for Clitheroe, and it is uncertain in any case whether the MP was the man whose particulars appear above, or his cousin and namesake, a younger son of the senior branch of the family, who was a member of the Inner Temple and servant of the Earl of Rutland. Perhaps the former may be preferred because of a tenuous link with the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, president of the council in the north, who knew his uncles Humphrey and William. Huntingdon could certainly have secured Purefoy’s return and it is highly likely that he spent several years in the service of this uncle Humphrey, who was himself a legal member of the council in the north. Purefoy died unmarried in 1627 and was buried in Caldecote church, where his cousin and executor, Gamaliel Purefoy, erected a monument. See http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1558-1603/member/PUREFOY-michael-1562-1627
Born: 1527
Died: 1 Sep 1615
Father: Michael PUREFOY of Caldecote
Mother: Joyce HARDWICK
Married: Catherine WIGSTON
Children:
4. Lucy PUREFOY
5. William PUREFOY
6. George PUREFOY
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Catherine WIGSTON
Married: Roger DUDLEY (Capt.)
Children:
1. Dorothy DUDLEY
Born: 17 Apr 1573, Caldecote, Warwickshire, England
Died: 16 Apr 1653
Buried: Burbage, Leicestershire, England
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Catherine WIGSTON
Married: Anthony GREY (9° E. Kent) ABT 1590/1
Children:
3. Grace GREY
4. Christian GREY
6. Faith GREY
7. Patience GREY
8. John GREY
9. Job GREY
10. Theophilus GREY
11. Nathaniel GREY
Born: 1570
Died: 1617
Father: William PUREFOY
Mother: Catherine WIGSTON
Married: Eleanor BASKERVILLE
Children:
1. Mary PUREFOY
2. William PUREFOY
Born: ABT 1382
Married: Joan CATESBY