Dates: 1655-1970
Collection Number: MS 74
Physical Location: Archive Room File Cabinet
Extent: 1 folder.
Access Restrictions: Collection is open to research.
User Restrictions: No restrictions.
Preferred Citation: Purvis Family, MS 74, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information: Gift, Curtis Purvis, 3 February 1982.
Biographical/Historical Information: The Purvis family emigrated from Scotland to Virginia. Goerg Purvis arrived in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1739 and later settled in Amherst County, Virginia.
Scope and Content: This is the Genealogy of the Purvis Family From the Year 1739 to 1870 written by George E. Purvis (1870) and added to by Alice Lee Simpson Oliver. It includes marriage records found in Amherst and Nelson County, Virginia. This manuscript also includes a copy of the Civil War Diary of Joseph Edward Purvis, 19th Virginia Regiment while prisoner of war at Fort Delaware in 1863.
Family Names: Purvis family.
Subjects:
- Genealogy
- Purvis Family
Record Types: Reports.
