I have been hearing about what seems to be a LOT of Purchase families in Great Britain and was very curious to find out just how many branches of Purchase families stemmed out of Great Britain. I am a Purchase but by marriage and I and my husband are both Americans; I had never before heard of the name "Purchase" before I met my husband in high school in California. (My husband was born in Iowa; his father (Purchase)was born in Nebraska where his family resided back to his GGGrandfather who was born in New York.)
My mother-in-law and I share an interest in genealogy and I am proud to say that she is a very excellent amateur genealogist but she has never been able to get further back
than Thomas Purchase b. 12 Mar 1797; d. 17 Jun 1843 and bur. Shepards Settlement Cemetery, Skaneateles, NY. She believes that he is Thomas II but has no proof. Both my mother-in-law and I are eager to get this Thomas back to England but so far no luck. He does have a sister named Sarah Purchase who married Alvin Burroughs.
Thomas married Hannah Burroughs on 14 Feb 1821; Hannah is buried at Shepards Settlement Cemetery, Skaneateles, NY. Thomas's second wife was Hannah Scriber, b. 12 Jan 1805. Hannah Scriber died on 20 Apr 1854 and is buried at Shepards Settlement Cemetery,Skaneateles, NY. Thomas and Hannah Scriber had three children: Esther A. Purchase, b. 1837, NY; Sarah O. Purchase, b. 14 Dec 1841, NY
and Mattie Purchase. Esther and Sarah died in Nebraska.
Thomas and his first wife Hannah Burroughs had 7 children together, including my husband's GGGGrandfather Evlin Purchase, b. New York on 24 Mar 1822; he died in Elk City, Nebraska.
We haven't seemed to have run into as many Purchases in America as are in England.
Any suggestion on how to get our Purchase family into Great Britain or overseas-- or to find Thomas Purchase's parents?
Thanks very much.
Kathleen Purchase
LPurch6636@aol.com