Last name: PURVES
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PURVES : This last name is indexed 28,304 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
PURVES : Scottish (Berwickshire and Midlothian) English (Northumberland) and Irish (Wexford) of Norman origin: variant of Purvis.
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