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Purchase family

Posted: 13 Jun 2011 12:15PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Purchase
Hello
Am researching the family of John and Betsey Purchase who immigrated to NSW, Australia with their 2 yo son, John, in about 1838 aboard the James Patterson. They had about 13 chn one of which was Edward who married Caroline Prior. They lived in the Parramatta area of Sydney and the John Purchase Primary School is named after John.

Re: Purchase family

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi,
Have seen your message via Ancestry. We must be related somewhere as Purchase is a reasonably unusual name!! However, it isn't through your relations as told in your message- so sorry. I don't have any such names in my family- that I know of. There may be offshoots who I haven't researched - I tend to stick to my own lines and not those of siblings. At the moment I am tied by health and financial restrictions so haven't been doing anything on Ancestry for a while. I will tell you however that my Purchases came from Wilmslow, Cheshire [me/dad and his siblings], Burslem in Stoke on Trent [my Granny Purchase nee Moreton] and Walsall [my Grandad Purchase and his father's family and ancestors] My dad was Frederick William b1912. My grandad was also Frederick. My grt Grandad was Jabez b1852 in Walsall. Now whether there are siblings who are related to you, I don't know but if this helps you, please let me know how you go on as I'd like to link up with anyone related! All the best,
Pauline

Re: Purchase family

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 10:48AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Pauline
Thanks for your reply. Am still in the very early stages of researching the Purchase family but will let you know if I come across any of your links. As far as I know my line came from Clatworthy in Somerset and John Purchase was b.1807. His father was also John and he married a Jane Thomas. As you said, "It's an unusual name so..." - who knows??
Alexis

Re: Purchase family

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:15AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for your reply, Alexis. I am so intrigued about the name especially as I know, from having lived there and knowing people from there, that it is common in Somerset and other parts of the South and South West. If you look at a distribution map, you can see this and you can also see a blob of Purchases in and around Walsall, West Midlands. But they are the only ones! I can trace them [my family] back to the 1500's as Locksmiths. Someone told me that Purchase is a strong traveller name too and I have wondered, with the persecution and 'ethnic cleansing' of the gypsy race through history, had my lot travelled up from Somerset or elsewhere to become part of a respectable trade in the Birmingham area, the centre of the metalwork industry? I shall never know for sure, but I can only assume they did move to the Midlands from the South for whatever reason.
Just as a matter of interest, and forgive me if this sounds strange, but do you have 'dark skinned' people in your family? My dad and his dad were quite dark skinned [no other noticable features] and I tan very dark as does my dark skinned son and one daughter! Another intrigue! If anyone else has Mediterranean looks in their Purchase family I would love to know!!!!
Alexis, please do let me know anything and very good luck in your research.

best wishes
Pauline

Re: Purchase family

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 5:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Purchas/Stanhope connection
Hi Pauline
Just came across Jabez Purchas in the 1881 Census whilst looking for my great grandad, Robert William Stanhope aged 1 and listed as a cousin and there the trail of his father stops. I know his mother was Charlotte Stanhope nee Hammond . Robert William's Father was Henry Stanhope at birth but on his Marriage Certificate was shown as Samuel Jabez Stanhope.
I wondered if you had come across any Stanhope's in your search?
Regards
Jan Frost
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