Person Sheet


Name Sarah Offley75
Birth Apr 160975
Death 16 Jan 165775
Misc. Notes
From http://wolves.dsc.k12.ar.us/cyberace/sbgone/gen/fam1/thorowgood/adam.htm
• Born in England
• Court records show her bringing suit on several occasions: swearing out a warrant on Goody Layton for wronging her deceased husband with a "Pish;" two men for making insulting remarks to her daughter, Sarah in 1644; and just days before her death she took a tenant farmer to court for improper planting of an orchard and "ground made waste of."
• Described as "beautiful and high-spirited" with a "backbone of steel and an indomitable will."
• 2nd husband John Gookin, 3rd Argoll Yeardley
• Died in Lower Norfolk Co., Va
• Her epitaph reads "Here lieth ye body of Capt. John Gookin and also ye body of Mrs Sarah Yeardley, who was wife to Capt Adam Thoroughgood first, Capt John Gookin and Col Francis Yeardley who deceased Aug 1657"

From:
http://www.esva.net/ghotes/thorowgd/d0/i0011734.htm26

He married Sarah Offley in Blackfriars, London, England, July 18, 1627. St. Anne's Church.
Sarah was born in England about 1609. Based on her baptism April 16, 1609 at St. Benet, Gracechurch, London. Sarah was the daughter of Robert Offley and Anne Osburn.
Sarah died 1657 in Lower Norfolk Co., VA, at 48 years of age. Sarah was 18 years old when she came to the Virginia colony. Court records show her bringing suit on several occasions: swearing out a warrant on Goody Layton for wronging her deceased husband with a "Pish;" two men for making insulting remarks to her daughter, Sarah in 1644; and just days before her death she took a tenant farmer to court for improper planting of an orchard and "ground made waste of." She was described as "beautiful and high-spirited" with a "backbone of steel and an indomitable will." (Norfolk Co. VA GenWeb, Thorowgood Family by Carol Middleton; dates-Meyer & Dorman, Adventurers of Purse & Person, Dietz Press, Richmond, VA 1987, pp.459, 607)
Spouses
1 Adam Thoroughgood75
Birth 15 Jul 160475
Death 27 Apr 164075 Age: 35
Marriage 8 Jul 1627, St. Anne's Church, Blackfriars, London75
Children Anne (1630->1684)
Sarah (1631-1658)
Elizabeth (1633-~1670)
Adam
Last Modified 2 Nov 2004 Created 16 Jun 2005 by Reunion for Macintosh

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