Samuel Samuel Pettypool

Samuel Pettipoole, a cordwinder from Ratcliffe, married Alice Jackson (bapt. 7 Feb 1591 St. Martin Orgar and lived in Wapping, Middlesex County) on 19 Sep 1627 at St. Dunstan Parish, Stepney, Middlesex County, England. Samuel and Alice had seven children: Sara (bapt. 24 Aug 1628), James (bapt. 13 Sep 1629), William (bapt. 20 Oct 1630 St. Dunstan), Martha (bapt. 23 Jun 1633), Jane (bapt. 10 Aug 1634), Elizabeth (bapt. 26 Feb 1635), and Mary (bapt. 24 Sep1637, married 23 Mar1645 Mathew Jones, a street musician from Whitehorse). With the exceptions of William and Mary, all died within two years of birth.

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St. Dunstan’s, Stepney, London, is the church where Samuel and Alice (Jackson) Pettypool were married and where their children, including the American immigrant, William Pettypool, were christened. Although the church occupies a site continuously used for Christian worship for over a thousand years, the building in its current form was completed mainly in the 15th century, some 200 years before William was brought here by his parents to be christened in October of 1630. St. Dunstan’s served villages east of London along the Thames River. Village inhabitants traditionally found occupations associated with seafaring, including shipbuilding and the provisioning trades. William probably knew these areas well and likely set sail for Virginia from one of the docks along this part of the Thames River.

Samuel and Alice Pettipoole had seven children, only two of whom survived infancy, namely William and Mary. Samuel was a cordwainer, a shoe maker

Samuel Pettipoole died in 1667 at Limehouse, Middlesex County and was buried on 20 Aug 1667 at St. Dunstan and All Saints Parish (22). There is no record found of Alice Jackson Pettipoole's burial in London area parish registers.

St Dunstan and All Saints, Burials at Stepnie Anno 1667 August "20 Samuell Pettipole of Lymehouse pentioner [pensioner]".