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purchase Name Meaning and History

English: metonymic occupational name for an official responsible for obtaining the supplies required by a monastery or manor house, from Anglo-Norman French purchacer ‘to acquire or buy’ (Old French pourchacier, from chacier ‘to chase or catch’ + the intensive prefix p(o)ur, Latin pro).

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Distribution of purchase Families in the US in 1920
Number of purchase families
 14-25
 5-13
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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