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Subject: Re: last name: Purkis
Author: C. GRANT   (guest, 195.92.67.76)
Date: April 11, 2004 at 9:48:07 AM
Reply to: Re: last name: Purkis by Reg Niles
Since many slaves from Camp Shudy and Castle Camps, in Cambridgeshire
England had this surname - could this be related to slave purchase or
slaves purchasing their freedom?

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