Richard Thurmer

Abt 1549 -

• Name	Richard Thurmer
  Birth	Abt 1549	Berkshire, England
  Gender	Male
  _UID	3CAEDAF2EC0FD511B568BD47275DDA4E64CE
  Person ID	I8145	sorrells
  Last Modified	14 Aug 1999

  
  

  Children	1. John Thurmer, Sr.,   b. Abt 1598, London, England d. 4 Apr 1669, Maryland (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F2938	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Oct 2024

  
  

• Notes

  This surname is seen as THURMER, THURMAN, and THURMOND. The will of 18 Dec 1638 of Edmund Morecroft, lists his sister's father-in-law as THURMER. The descendants are THURMAN in the Humphries book, so I use THURMAN from this family forward unless it has specifically changed to THURMOND. "In the year 1638 John Thurman and his wife Anne Morecraft Thurman, and children, were residents of James City County, VA, where John, Sr. was exercising all the rights and privileges of citizenship." John Sr. and Anne probably sailed with his brother-in-law, Edmund Morecraft, a Virginia-London merchant, who was engaged also in transporting immigrants to America at his own expense in order to receive the 50 acres headright allowed each person. Morecraft died late in the year 1638, and John Thurman was one of the executors. John Thurman and members of his family, with Morecraft's two sisters, Elizabeth and Marie, who lived in London, were legattees under the will. (Source: Descendants of John Thurman of VA, by John D. Humphries, Atlanta, GA, Dec 1 1938.)