A Purser Genealogy PageUpdated June 26, 2005
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FredO.Purser, Jr. 527 Paul Place Los Alamos,NM87544 A-United States 505-672-3772 [email protected]
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The Purser Genealogy includes many families but the dominant families are Purser, Tyson, Brown, Jackson, Stokes, Cox and Sermons.Early records are concentrated in Tidewater Virginia,and Maryland, then in the Eastern North Carolina counties of Pitt, Bath, Beaufort, Hyde, Craven, Perquimans, and Chowan. Brunswick and New Hanover Counties in North Carolina play lesser roles. Much of the information quoted herein was developed by my mother from records in these courthouses, research done before the arrival of the internet. Beginning dates for data range back to 1623 and continue until the present. Many of these families interconnected several times and first names keep recurring. Family was important. Since the explosion of genealogical data on the Internet, I have benefitted from the research of many.Where appropriate, I hope I have made the proper references. If not the omission is inadvertent and unintentional.
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- The William James Sermons Family (122 KB)
This photo was taken approximately 1900.Matthew Cornelius Sermons is at left rear on horseback. In addition to his children, WJS's son in law, Ed Savage, is included. Lucy Sermons is missing from the picture. - W. J. Sermons' House in December, 1999 (89 KB)
This photo was taken approximately 100 years after the previous one. WJS's grandaughter, Irma was with me and was reminiscing as to how much fun she and my mother had had visiting Grandmama here.The house is now a tenant house. - William James Sermons house location, March, 2001 (97 KB)
Suburb development finally catches up to Grandpa Bill's house. Even the rich Pitt County soil is gone, or so mingled with clay as to be unrecognizable.
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