Sarah Elizabeth Purnell

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Sarah Elizabeth Purnell (Dorman)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bradwell, Essex, England
Death: March 05, 1694 (59)
Somerset County, Maryland, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Dorman and Sarah Bonewell
Wife of Thomas Purnell, Jr.
Mother of John Lewis Purnell; Sarah Johnson; Elizabeth Nutter and Thomas (Major) Purnell, IV
Sister of John Dorman; Mary Nutter; Matthew Dorman and Ellyen "Hickman" Dorman
Half sister of James Bonnewell, II

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About Sarah Elizabeth Purnell

Possibly a Dorman, but not a daughter of John Dorman and Sarah Hickman.


Indentured to (probably) Alice Johnson Alice Johnson , widow of William Johnson, until age 15.

May have married Thomas Purnell and moved to Somerset County, MD (not necessarily in that order, as there may have been a husband before him).

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Sarah Elizabeth Purnell's Timeline

1635
February 14, 1635
Bradwell, Essex, England
1654
1654
Mattaponi, VA, United States
1660
1660
Fairfield, Somerset County, Maryland, United States
1660
Snow Hill, Somerset, Maryland
1671
February 15, 1671
Maryland or Virginia?
1694
March 5, 1694
Age 59
Somerset County, Maryland, United States