My 7 times-great aunt Elizabeth Pettipoole died of the plague 5 September 1636. Elizabeth had been born scarcely six months earlier to Samuell Pettipoole, a shoemaker, and his wife Alice Jackson of Knockfergus, in the hamlet of Wapping.1 Continue reading “…the plague is in some places…” – The Short Life of Elizabeth Pettipoole”
…the plague is in some places…” – The Short Life of Elizabeth Pettipoole
English Ancestry of the Pettypool Family of Colonial Virginia
A new publication, English Ancestry of the Pettypool Family of Colonial Virginia, by Carolyn Hartsough is available for download at http://www.pettypool.com/England/index.html. This 137 page document describes the origins of the Pettypool surname in medieval England, and traces the family from its Essex roots through the departure of William Pettypool for colonial Virginia in the 17th century. An excerpt from the paper follows: Continue reading “English Ancestry of the Pettypool Family of Colonial Virginia”