More-fruit Fenner

Morefruit Fenner, daughter of the Puritan Dudley Fenner, left 40s to William Tinchborne, minister of Romford, for books.

References

• Frou-Frou, Frisby & Brick: The Book of Unfortunate Baby Names By Russell Ash. GoogleBooks
• From https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Fenner,_Dudley_(DNB00)_ ... [Dudley Fenner] would seem to have had the sympathy of Mr. Fletcher, for the birth of his daughter in June 1585 is entered in the register of Cranbrook Church, ‘Faint not Fenner, daughter of D. F. Concional. Digniss.’ The last two words probably mean ‘most worthy preacher.’ A son, [SIC: daughter] born December 1583, is given the name of More Fruit Fenner. Fenner's widow became the wife of Dr. William Whitaker, and bore him eight children. [SIC: one surviving]
• A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower 1500-1620 By Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Page 272. GoogleBooks
• From Religious Politics in Post-reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas ... edited by Kenneth Fincham, Peter Lake. “Dudley Fenner & the peculiarities of Puritan nomenclature.” Page 119 - GoogleBooks ... Dudley Fenner was a native of Kent, and was reported by Waldegrave to have been an ‘heir of great possessions.’ He was a fellow-commoner of Peterhouse, (which confirms his gentry status), but left Cambridge without a degree ... ... More-fruit was the name he chose for his own daughter. Free-Gift Fenner, sister of More-fruit, born overseas, died in Cranbrook in September 1583. Faint-not Fenner was baptized two years later. Well-abroad Fenner was buried in Cranbrook, after her father’s death. Presumably Joan Fenner had remained in Cranbrook after her husband’s withdrawal to self imposed exile in Middleburg ....”