Purse Family History
Purse Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for someone who made bags
or purses or for an official in charge of expenditure, from Middle
English purse (via Old English from Latin bursa).Scottish: variant of Purser.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Purse
Name Distribution of Purse Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Purse families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Purse families
|
42 - 81 15 - 41 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Purse families
|
21 - 39 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Purse census records
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Purse Family Origin
Purse Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Purse
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Purse Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Purse census records
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Purse Civil War Service Records
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