When Brittain Birdsong Purser was born about 1876, in Mississippi, United States, his father, David Inghram Purser Sr., was 35 and his mother, Deza Jennie Bass, was 32. He married Ethel Hunigate about 1895, in Mississippi, United States.
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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