Purchase Family History
Purchase Name Meaning
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Purchase
Name Distribution of Purchase Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Purchase families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Purchase families
|
101 - 199 34 - 100 |
1 - 33 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Purchase families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Purchase census records
You can see how Purchase families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Purchase Family Origin
Purchase Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Purchase families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Purchase
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
your family.
The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates,
death dates, addresses and more.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Purchase Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Purchase census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Purchase ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Purchase Civil War Service Records
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