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ArchivesRe: last name: Purkis
in reply to a message by Jae-Won Shim
Apparently it derives from Norman French purchacer meaning "to purchase", and it referred to a person reponsible for buying goods.
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I checked “A Dictionary of British Surnames,” by P.H. Reaney, 2nd edition, published 1976. On page 285, PURKIS is treated under the main entry PURCHAS, from the Old French word purchas meaning "pursuit, pillage." But the name was used for a messenger.
Information about the progenitor of the family and a different meaning of the surname appear on page 279 of “A Dictionary of Surnames” by Mark Antony Lower, published 1988 (first published in 1860 as “A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom”).
Reg Niles
Information about the progenitor of the family and a different meaning of the surname appear on page 279 of “A Dictionary of Surnames” by Mark Antony Lower, published 1988 (first published in 1860 as “A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom”).
Reg Niles
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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?
England had this surname - could this be related to slave purchase or
slaves purchasing their freedom?
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