Re: Peurifoy/Purifoy family records
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Re: Peurifoy/Purifoy family records
2/23/00
My ggggrandmother was Piercy Purefoy(dau of Wm.and Mary Brothers).She m. William(Bacot)Gause of Brunswick Co.N.C. and the reason the name is often seen as Peurifoy is as follows: William Purefoy was a Methodist Episcopal minister. And when his father Nicholas joined the Baptist church, William and his brothers were so horrified they changed the spelling of their name. Or so I've been told.......