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- About the year 1400, a common Draper ancestor came to England from the
Netherlands, Normandy or Brittany. The Drapers are native of
Yorkshire, England, and they were of or near Heptonstall. They were
large land holders in Yorkshire as early as 1400. Undoubtedly, all of
the Drapers in that area descended from William, John and Henry le
Drapour.
To be a draper means to deal in cloth. A clothier and fuller was
one who manufactured cloth and fulled it ready to be made into
clothes. He was a weaver of clothes by means of a loom and used water
power for the fulling. The wool or flax was raised by him and carded,
spun and weaved into cloth, sent to the clothier's mill to be fulled,
colored, shorn and finished, ready on the return to be made into
clothes.
Thomas Draper was a clothier and fuller.
From: GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS RELATING TO THE FAMILIES OF BOSTON AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS, William Richard Cutter, Editor. Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York, 1910. Page 2286.
"Thomas Draper, father [grandfather] of the American immigrant, lived and died in the parish of Heptonstall, vicarage of Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He himself was a clothier by trade. Children: Thomas, John, William, James (mentioned below [see James Draper "Notes"]), Mary, Martha. All remained in England excepting James."
From: "The English Ancestry of James Draper" by Clarence Almon Torrey, TAG, Vol. XV (1938/39), p 242:
"....It is unfortunate that the volume containing the earliest records of Heptonstall parish was lost or destroyed many years ago. The volume doubtless contained important records relating to the Draper and related families.
"The ancestry of Thomas Draper, James Draper's grandfather, can probably be found by securing further information from English records, including probate and land records. Many residents of Yorkshire held land by leases which could be transferred to other persons. Information about the leases and transfers of holdings is readily secured by searching the records at Wakefield. The writer has not made any plans for continuing the search and no further report from him about the Drapers of Yorkshire may be expected."
From The American Genealogist, Vol. XV, 1938-1939, p 237:
"21 June 1603. Will of Thomas Draper of Stoneslacke in Heptonstall:
To be buried at Heptonstall.To Grace Draper, daughter, sum of L 6.13.4. to be paid within a quarter of year after decease and further sum of L 13.6.8. to be paid within one year of decease. To Abraham, Thomas, and said Grace Draper, children, certain wearing apparel amd furniture, to be delivered to them at discretion of Cristall Sultonstall and Elizabeth Naylor, sisters-in-Law. William Draper, son, to be executor and tutor and guardian of Thomas Draper, son.
Richard Naylor, supervisor.
Witnesses: Richard Sutcliffe, Richard Naylor, William Scalfeild, William Hindley.
Proved 6 October 1603.
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