Mercy Culpeper
Female, #8961, (say 1582 - 1629)
| Parent* | Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc. (1540 - 10 Oct 1605) | |
| Parent* | Lettice Clarke (s 1545 - ) | |
Mercy Culpeper|b. say 1582\nd. 1629|p8961.htm|Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc.|b. 1540\nd. 10 Oct 1605|p8819.htm|Lettice Clarke|b. say 1545|p8469.htm|William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell|b. 1509\nd. 6 Dec 1559|p8388.htm|Cicely D. Barrett|b. 1512\nd. before 6 Dec 1559|p8390.htm|Humphrey Clarke of Westhalks in Kingsnorth, Kent|b. 1501|p8955.htm|Margaret Mayne|b. say 1501|p9177.htm| | ||
| Name Variation | Mercy Culpeper was also known as Colepeper. | |
| Name Variation | Mercy Culpeper was also known as Culpepper. | |
| Name-Comm | Her common name was Mary. | |
| Birth* | say 1582 | Mercy was born at Hanbury, Oxfordshire, England, say 1582. |
| She was the daughter of Dr. Martin Culpeper of Feckenham in Astwood, co. Worc. and Lettice Clarke. | ||
| Married Name | say 1602 | As of say 1602, her married name was Sandys. |
| Marriage* | say 1602 | She married Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc. say 1602. |
| Death* | 1629 | She died in 1629. |
| Burial* | 1629 | Her body was interred in 1629 at Wickhamford, Worcestershire, England. |
| Biography* | Her father named her in his will 'my daughter Sandys,' and appointed 'my son-in-law Sir Samuel Sandis of Ombersley, Worcs. Knight,' one of his trustees and executors. Her burial in 1629 among the Sandys at Wickhamford, with an elaborate MI., is recorded by Nash (Worcestershire, ii, 221, 462. . Her husband was the eldest son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys by his second wife, Cicely, dau. (by a second marriage) of the Thomas Wilford who had married Elizabeth, sister of William Culpeper. . By this marriage Mercy Culpeper was included in the innermost circle of the founders of Virginia. Her husband, long M. P., was a member of the Council of the Virginia Company, of which his two younger brothers were officers: Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629) as Treasurer and chief executive, and George Sandys (1577-1644), who translated Ovid while resident at Jamestown, as Secretary. She was, moreover, herself the mother of that Margaret Sandys who m. Sir Francis Wyatt (1588-1644), Governor of Virginia, 1621-26, and 1639-42. See Va. Mag., xvii, 292.] . Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck." |
Family | Sir Samuel Sandys of Wickhamford, co. Worc. (28 Dec 1560 - 18 Aug 1623) | |
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| Charts | Charlemagne's Descendants, Part 2: William Malet to Henry Culpeper of Lower Norfolk Descendants of William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell, from 1509: 7 generations |
| Last Edited | 25 Nov 2002 |