When William Purser was born about 1872, in Mississippi, United States, his father, David Inghram Purser Sr., was 31 and his mother, Deza Jennie Bass, was 28.
English: occupational name from Middle English purser(e), purcere, porser(e) ‘purser, purse-bearer, treasurer’ but sometimes also meaning ‘maker of purses or bags’.
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