Ancestry of Dr.
H. H. Holmes

Serial Killer aka “Devil in the White City”

Mary Purefoy

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of H. H. Holmes — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2259 
  • Father:
  • Edward Purefoy 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Fettiplace   
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  • AFT 29 Oct 1588 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Thorne
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Oct 1540 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Anthony Thorne

  Edward Thorne

  Robert Thorne

  Katherine Thorne

  Susanna Thorne (Ahnentafel No:1129 )

  Jane Thorne

• Sources for Mary Purefoy

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, JUL 1988, Vol. 142, Pages 227-244.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 28.
  • ³ The Cambridge Historical Society, Publications 14, Proceedings for the Year 1919, Cambridge, Massachusetts: by the Society (1926), 83.
  • ⁴ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. 2, p. 476.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2005), 291.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 215.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 361.