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Resource using Google Books

Resource using Google Books

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 6:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Barker, Dunwell, Purchase
There are several references in out-of-print books or books that can search for you surnames using http://books.google.com/books For some names you need to add a bit more info - for example using just the surname "Purchase" won't bring up the information you want but ways to buy books. So use "Purchase genealogy" and it will show you a few references using that phrase. "Purchas" was used on many of the early records. Also using the first name with "Purchase" will bring up some hits. Using both his and her surnames will often bring up a history of that family. I've had good luck using the first and last name and location in finding family.
Just a few thoughts that my help someone...

Leslie Barker Thomas
Descendant of Nancy Purchase 1790-1852 m. Stephen Dunwell

Re: Resource using Google Books

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 6:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 17 Jun 2011 6:44PM GMT
Surnames: Purchase/Purkis/Purchas
*Thanks* so much!

Great advice too! "Purchase" is such a common and often non-genealogical name. There's a city in New York named "Purchase" as well as the common verb, "Purchase." Doing general "Searches" of the simple name can be impossible.

Flanagan (Purchase)

LPurch6636@aol.com

Re: Resource using Google Books

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 11:51AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thankyou for posting this information on my wall. It will be very useful! I would like to know about your Purchase ancestry to sede if it crosses into mine at all!
Best wishes
Pauline

Purchase line through Nancy Purchase m. Stephen Dunwell

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 1:21PM GMT
Classification: Query
What I have so far:
1. Thomas Purchase about 1700 born probably in England. He may or may not have been the son of the Thomas Purchase who was commissioned to come to the Americas to buy or claim land for England. Perhaps the son of the 3rd known Thomas Purchase who may have been the son of this Thomas Purchase.
Confusion which has been worse confounded by the fact that there were three Thomas Purchases; that two of them married women whose Christian names were Elizabeth; that there were three Elizabeth Purchases, two of whom married men each named John Blany; and that two of Purchase sons married sisters surnamed "Williams". It will be sufficient to state for the purposes of this communication that Thomas Purchase, who was born about 1576 and died in Lynn, Mass., in 1678, a centenarian, married, first, the infamous Mary Gove (who died 1655), and, second, Elizabeth, widow of Richard Pike of Falmouth, Maine, and that after the death of Purchase she married for her third husband, John Blany, sr., of Lynn. Whether or not this line is from that line remains to be seen.

2. Thomas Purchase 1722-1825 died New York.
Most researchers indicate that this Thomas Purchase married a woman by the name of Baite Thomas. But there doesn’t seem to be any further information about her. Another researcher indicated her name was Elsjen Beatty... Elsjen was the daughter of John and Mary Brink Beatty - most have her married to Jacob Middaugh with no mention of a Thomas Purchase.

3. Two sons:
Robert 1763-1860 born and died in New York. Married 4 times = Elizabeth Abbott, Betsey Wilson, Sarah VanGorder, and Eliza Waterman. Children: Elizabeth, Nancy, Samuel, Milo, Oliver, William, Erastus, Mary, Sarah, and Leman.

Philip 1773-1856 listed on 1850 Lenawee, Michigan census with wife Rebecca Conklin. Had 6 known children = Thomas, Robert, Raymond, Louisa, Anne, and Christopher.

4. Nancy Purchase 1790-1852 m. Stephen Dunwell - they had 11 children. Daughter Lucetta b. 1814 m. John G. Barker.


Leslie Barker Thomas

Re: Purchase line through Nancy Purchase m. Stephen Dunwell

Posted: 18 Jun 2011 11:40PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Purchase/Purkis/Purchas
I found all the Thomases interesting. My husband's GGGGrandfather was Thomas Purchase II. (His father before him was Thomas I but I have virtually no more info about that gentleman.) Thomas II was born on 12 Mar 1797 and died on 17 Jun 1843; was buried at Shepards Settlement Cemetery, Skaneateles, NY. His sister was Sarah Purchase Burroughs.

Thomas's children were:
1.) Evlin Purchase, b. 24 Mar 1822; d. 19 Jul 1899, Elk City, NE. [My husband's ancestor.]

2.) Samuel Purchase, b. 25 Jun 1824, Skaneateles, NY
3.)Mary Ann Purchase Gray, b. 21 May 1827, d. 09 Nov 1907, Waterloo, NE; bur. Elk City, NE
4.)Maurice W.E. Purchase, b. 23 Feb 1830, Spafford, NY; d. 08 Feb 1896

Three children besides these died in infancy.

Does anyone connect with this Thomas-related set of Purchases?

Thanks a bunch.

Kathleen Hamler Purchase
LPurch6636@aol.com

Purchase Family Ilinois

Posted: 8 Aug 2012 8:59AM GMT
Classification: Lookup
Hi My name is Ashley Nicole Purchase I was born in Monmanth Illinois to Henry Purchase and Victoria Purchase On March 23rd 1987. I am looking for some type of info on my family roots and tree? All I can really tell u is that my father was the only child of Junita Purchase and I am not sure what her husbands name was I know that he had a uncle Hank Purchase They grew up there whole lifes in Henderson County Illinois. If ne one could please help me find out some info on my family it would be helpful. U can contact me directly at ashandsam@charter.net or ashley_purchase@yahoo.com please put "Purchase family" in the re box. Thank u so much for looking at this
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