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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Purchase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:
England & Wales
Scotland
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 Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Purchase emigration records
You can find out when most of the Purchase families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration 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
Purchase Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Purchase families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Purchase Family Occupations
from 1881 UK 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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Military Service by Purchase
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