1602 - 1655 (53 years)
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Name |
Lawrence (Rector of Purleigh) Washington |
Birth |
1602 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
1655 |
Person ID |
I180753 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
19 Aug 2013 |
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Notes |
- The Reverend Lawrence Washington, was born in 1602, the fifth son ofLawrence and Margaret. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford,where he graduated with a B.A. in 1623. He became rector of Purleigh,Essex, a wealthy living, in April 1633. That summer he married Amphyllis,daughter and Co-heiress of John Twigden, of Little Creaton,Northamptonshire. Their eldest son John was born the following spring.
In 1643, Parliament ordered the living of Purleigh to be sequestered andhe was ejected. The Civil war was in progress and he was accused as a"Malignant Royalist". He became greatly impoverished and Amphyllis andtheir children made their home with her stepfather at Tring (her motherhad re-married after her father's death). John Washington was about 19when his father died in poverty in 1654/5. Two years later, his motherdied intestate and was buried at Tring. When John came of age, soonafterwards, he went to London. He married and sailed for Virginia in1656, unfortunately his wife died and in 1658 he married again, this timeto Anne, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Nathaniel Pope JP, of The Cliffs,an early settlement on the northern neck of Virginia near the Potomac.The wedding present from his father-in-law was a 700 acre estate atMattox Creek, where their eldest son Lawrence was born in 1659.
From "Sulgrave Manor" Home of George Washington's ancestors ,www.stratford.co.uk/sulgrave/
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