When Rosa Effie Purvis was born in 1884, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Stephen David Purvis, was 43 and her mother, Rosa Effie Freeman, was 41. She died in 1884, in Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States.
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Scottish, English (Midlothian, Northumberland, and Durham; of Norman origin): status name or occupational name from an unrecorded Anglo-Norman French purveis, probably a derivative of purveoir ‘to foresee; to provide (supplies)’ and synonymous with Anglo-Norman French purveiour ‘steward who provides food and supplies to a royal or monastic household’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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