Purdy/Purdey One Name Study
Surnames/tags: Purdy Purdey
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Project Goal
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname Purdy and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.
Origin and Meanings
Recorded in several spelling forms including Pirdy, Pirdue, Pardoe, Purdy, Purdey, and Perdue, this surname is medieval English but of Norman-French origins. It is an excellent example of the medieval liking for creating a surname from a nickname. In this instance the development is from a favourite oath, in pre 10th century Old French "Par Dieu", meaning "by God", but anglicized to a 'sounds like' spelling. There are a number of similar surnames in the modern idiom, "Purefoy" (Par ma foi), meaning "God safe". The form of the oath "Pardee" was popular in the Middle Ages, and appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as "I have a wyt, pardee, as wel as thow". The surname development over the centuries has included Rober Pardey, of the county of Sussex in 1296, Herny Pardeu of Warwickshire in 1332, and Walter Perdu of Staffordshire in 1370. Later recordings include James Pardoe who married Sarah Birt at St. Georges chapel, Hanover Square, London, in 1808. The first recorded spelling of the family name is believed to be that of Richard Parde. This was dated 1228, in the tax rolls known as the "Feet of Fines" for Suffolk. during the reign of King Henry III, 1216 - 1272. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Guild of One Name Studies
As of 31 Aug 2018, the Guild of One Name Studies has no registered study for either Purdy or Purdey.
Project Members
- Chris Goff Purdy's from the Barnes area of Surrey - see Category:Barnes, Surrey, Purdy Name Study
- Gene Bray Purdy's from New York and Connecticut that were Royalists in the Revolutionary war, and fled to Canada and the Bahama Islands with some later returning and reuniting in New York, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
- Boris Charlton has offered to help with information on descendants of John Purdy. Boris' maternal grandmother Edna (Ferguson) Roberts helped research the book "John Purdy, His Ancestors and Descendants. Born Fairfield Connecticut c 1648, Died Westchester County New York 1678" (by Clayton C. Purdy and Others), and he has her annotated copy of that book which has some 1500 pages of information into this particular branch of the Purdy family.
WikiTree Resources
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Ransom was a Texas Ranger with Company B, Frontier Battalion.
A book "Oklahoma Place Homes" by George H. Shirk states "In western Garvin Cnty, 8 miles south of Lindsay, OK, was a post office from Mar 14,1892 to Nov 15, 1918 named for Ransom Purdy, first Postmaster." This was Purdy, Oklahoma.
Ransom S. Purdy married Idella Virginia Eggleston and had 6 children: 1. Jessie Maude Purdy b:20 Apr 1878 2. Mattie Pearl Purdy b. 6 Sep 1882 3. Kathrine L. Purdy 4. Alton Purdy 5 Alice Purdy 6. Ollie Purdy
Also, looking for any information about descendants 2-6.
I would also recommend posting this as a query of the G2G forum tagged "Purdy" and perhaps "Texas" Good Luck in your search, Chris