PUREFOY, William II (1622-bef. 1699), of Rossroe, co. Clare.

Family and Education

bap. May 1622, 3rd s. of Gamaliel Purefoy of Wolvershill, Bulkington, Warws. and Anne Sheldon of Sheldon.Vis. Warws. 1682-3 (Harl. Soc. lxii), 109-110; Warws. RO, Bulkington par. regs.; BRL, Sheldon par. regs. educ. Magdalen, Oxf. 12 June 1640.Al. Ox. m. Flora, da. of ?Benjamin Henshaw of London, 4s. 3da. d. bef. 1699.Vis. Warws. 1682-3, 110; Al. Dub.; P.B. Eustace ‘Index of Will Abstracts’, Analecta Hibernica xvii. 313.

Offices Held

Military: maj. of ft. (parlian.), regt. of James Castle (later Henry Slade, William Leigh), army in Ireland, 8 Oct. 1646-c.Feb. 1651;CSP Ire. 1633–47, pp. 527–8; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. ii. 632–3. lt.-col. c.Feb. 1651-Aug. 1653.CSP Dom. 1651, p. 34; SP28/95, f. 48. Capt. Clare Castle by Jan. 1655–?60.Bodl. Rawl. A.208, p. 453. Lt.-col. of ft. regt. of Henry Ingoldsby* (later Robert Barrow), ?1655–60.HMC Ormonde, n.s. iii. 424; CSP Dom. 1659–60, p. 12; CSP Ire. 1647–60, p. 692.

Local: commr. assessment, cos. Clare, Limerick 16 Oct. 1654, 12 Jan. 1655;An Assessment for Ire. (1654, 1655). poll money, co. Clare, King’s Co., Limerick City and Ennis Town 24 Apr. 1660, 1 Mar. 1661.Irish Census, 1659, 622–5, 640–4.

Parlimentarian

PUREFOY, William II (1622-bef. 1699), of Rossroe, co. Clare.

: of Rossroe, co. Clare.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PUREFOY, William II (1622-bef. 1699), of Rossroe, co. Clare.

Will

pr. 1699.Eustace, ‘Abstract of Wills’, 313.

Estates

awarded 200 acres, Tullogh Barony, and 125 acres, Bunratty Barony, co. Clare, 1650s;Civil Survey, iv. 86, 91, 160. purchased Castle Warning, co. Kildare, c.1661;HMC Egmont, i. 617; HMC 6th Rep. 748. ownership of property in King’s Co., confirmed Nov. 1666.CSP Ire. 1666-9, pp. 233-4. In 1670 held 35 townlands in co. Clare (concentrated in Tullogh Barony), 5 in Coolestowne Barony, King’s Co. and 1 in parish of Mullingar, co. Westmeath.Down Survey website.

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