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Looking for descendents of Richard Roberts PURCHASE
« on: Monday 12 October 09 00:19 UTC (UK) »
Hello,
I am looking for living descendents of Richard Roberts Purchase, who was born in Langport, Somerset, 1855.
He is my great grandfather. The censuses show that he was a jeweller and a watchmaker, or watch repairer. My mum said that he had a shop in Bournemouth at one time, and may have "wound up Queen Victoria's clocks on the Isle of Wight".

To confuse things, the names 'Roberts Purchase' sometimes appear within this family as:
'Roberts-Purchase' or
'Robert Purchase' or
'Robert-Purchase.

He married (Polly) Mary Selina Jones in Birmingham in around 1860.
They had at least the following children (my grandmother told my mum that she was the youngest of 13 children):

Millicent Jane Purchase (b c1879, Curry Rival, Somerset)
Richard William Roberts-Purchase (b1880 Bilston, Staffordshire - d1930 Henley)
(Lily) Lilian Mary Purchase (b1881 Brierley Hill, Staffordshire)
(Bertie) Herbert Allen Purchase (b1882, Brierley Hill)
Reginald Roberts Purchase (b1886, Langport, Somerset)
Edith Annie C. R. Purchase (b1889, Yeovil, Somerset)
   (c09/1919, she married John A. Lock, in Christchurch, Hampshire)
Percival Edgar Purchase (b1893, Yeovil, Somerset)
   (c12/1915, he married Edith E. Cull, in Paddington)
Dorothy Ellen Roberts-Purchase (b1894, Yeovil, Somerset) - this is my grandmother
   (1919, she married my grandfather William Ernest Keeling, (1885 - 1938))

Dorothy had three children - my father and an aunt, both now deceased, and one remaining aunt that I think moved to Australia or New Zealand. My family knew her as 'Judy', but FreeBMD shows her as Julia M. Keeling, born 1930.
I would love to be able to contact Aunt Judy, if anybody knows how.

Equally, I would love to be able to contact anybody else who is a descendent of this rather large family! Smiley
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