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Mary Purchase

Female Bef 1562 - 1627  (> 65 years)

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  • Name Mary Purchase
    Birth Bef 1562  Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female
    Death From 12 May 1627 to 17 Jul 1627  Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7910  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2026

    Father John Purchase,   b. Bef 1537, Of Great Waltham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. From 27 Mar 1585 to 11 Oct 1585, Great Waltham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 48 years)
    Mother Margaret,   b. Bef 1539, Of Great Waltham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1585, of Great Waltham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 48 years)
    Marriage Bef 1556  Of Great Waltham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3510  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Warner,   b. Abt 1552, Of Great Waltham, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 12 Jul 1614, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
    Marriage 10 Sep 1578  Little Dunmow, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Thomas Warner,   b. Abt 1579, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John Warner,   b. Abt 1582, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1627 (Age > 46 years)
     3. Rose Warner,   b. Abt 1585, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Elizabeth Warner,   b. Abt 1588, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1627 (Age > 40 years)
     5. Edward Warner,   b. Abt 1591, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. From 1614 to 1627, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 23 years)
     6. Andrew Warner,   b. Abt 1595, Of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Dec 1684, Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
    Family ID F3500  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2026

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. An extremely valuable reference book on this family is "Thomas Sanford, the emigrant to New England; ancestry, life, and descendants, 1632-4," by Carlton E. Sanford (Tuttle Company: Rutland, Vermont, 1911). It contains a thorough examination and report of the English church records, lay subsidies, and probate for this family. The book is available online at several websites including the following: https://archive.org/details/thomassanfordemi01sanf/page/28/mode/2up.

      2. Relationship mentioned in the will of husband John Warner filed 16 Jul 1614.

      3. An excellent resource: Warner, Lucien C., "The descendants of Andrew Warner, (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1919), available online at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Thomas_Sanford%2C_the_emigrant_to_New_England%3B_ancestry%2C_life%2Cand_descendants%2C_1632-4. It contains the transcripts of the wills of all the early Warners and Purchases, which name and list children and grandchildren and were instrumental in building this family in this database. Here is a transcript of Mary (Purchase) Warner's will:
      WILL OF MARY WARNER
      Commissary Court of London (Essex and Herts) 1627 No. 148.
      In the name of God Amen The Tweleth day of may 1627 and in the third yeare of the Raygne of our Soveraygne Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Kinge defendor of the fayth &c I Mary Warner of Hatfeild Broadoke alias Hatfeild Regis in the Countie of Essex widow do Ordayne and make this my last will and Testament in manner and forme followinge viz. First I bequeath my soule into the handes of God my Savior and my body to be buried in Christian Buriall. Item I give unto Thomas Warner my eldest sonne the somme of Twentie shillinges and also my brewing Leade and unto his wife Joane my best Gowne except one and one band. Item I give unto John Warner my sonne the somme of foure poundes of good and lawfull money of England to be payd unto him within one month after my decease. Item I give unto John my sonne the somme of Twentie shillinges to be payd unto him within one yeare after my decease and also I give unto him one Gowne and one peticoate. Item I give unto Rose my daughter my worst blackgowne and one peticoate one fetherbed one bolster one Covering one pillow wheron I now ly and three payer of sheetes in her Chest. Item I give unto my daughter Elizabeth One Chest with linnen Ready layd up and my best gowne and one peticoate. Item I give unto Rose my daughter the somme of Twentie shillinges to be paid unto her within one yeare after my decease. Item I give unto Elizabeth my daughter the some of Twentie shillinges to be paid unto her within one yeare after my decease. Item I give unto Thomas Warner my Grandchild the somme of Tenn shil linges And also I give unto him One Covering One Chest and one pewter platter to be payd and delivered unto him when he shall Come to the Age of One and Twentie Yeares. Item I give unto Thomas Sanford my Grandchild one Chest one pewter platter one Kettle and one Covering to be delivered unto him when he shall Come to the Age of One and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto the Two children of my daughter Elizabeth the somme of Twentie shillinges to either of them Tenn shillinges to be payd unto them when they shall Come to the Age of One and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto Mary Warner the daughter of my son John the somme of Tenn shillinges and also one box with linnen and other thinges layd up in it. Item I give unto the Two Children of Thomas Warner the somme of Ten shillinges to be equally devyded betweene them and payd unto them when they shall Come to Age of one and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto the other Two Children of my sonne John the somme of Tenn shillinges to be equally devyded and payd unto them when they shall Come to the Age of one and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto Mary Sandford the daughter of my daughter Rose the somme of Tenn shillinges. Item I give unto the other Seven Children of my daughter Rose to every one of them the somme of five shillinges to be payd unto them when they shall severally Come to the Age of One and Twentie yeares. Item I give unto the Two Children of Andrew my sonne the somme of Twentie shillinges to be Equally devided and payd unto them. Item I give unto Andrew Warner my sonne the greatest Chest and greatest Ketle and also all other my moveable goodes or Chattells whatsoever to discharge my Legacies and pay such Charges as shall Arise for my buriall And I do Ordayne and make him the sole Executor of this my present last will and Testament in writeing. In witnesse hereof I have putte my hand and seale the day and yeare first above written. sigum Mary Warner. Sealed and subscribed in the presence of us sigum Peter Linzell & Jonathan Ince. Proved at Stortford 17 July 1627."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FESSEX-MAR%2F0601310%2F1 accessed 17 Sep 2021:
      Johannes Warner and Maria Purcas, 10 Sep 1578 at Little Dunmow, Essex, England.
      Archive Essex Record Office; Archive reference D/P 95/1/1