Mrs Purvis of Glassmount lived at No. 5 from about 1849 to 1852. She was the widow of Burridge Purvis of Glassmount, a cotton trader, who died at sea in 1816 while returning to Scotland from South Carolina. She was born Mary Brown about 1779, in Charleston, South Carolina, and was known as ‘Polly Brown’,…
Mary Purvis
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