Trade Cards and Bills.     Notes on the Purser Family Baptisms, marriages and burials were found in: London parish registers, London Metropolitan Archives, Ancestry online (unless otherwise stated). Joseph Purser – PCC Will (National Archives) will dated 30 September 1755, probate date 10 December 1755. Joseph Purser was buried on 9 December 1755 at St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, London.     Will Summary Joseph Purser of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, cork-cutter. beloved wife Mary Purser. brothers Thomas, Edward and William Purser. friend Mr Francis Harrache of "Earl Street near the Seven Dials", goldsmith, and friend Mr Henry [?], "the sum of five pounds a piece for mourning". nephew Joseph, son of brother William Purser, under 21. nephew Joseph, son of brother Thomas Purser, under 21. niece Jane Purser, daughter of brother Thomas Purser, under 21. nieces Mary, Frances and Elizabeth Purser, all daughters of brother Thomas Purser. nephew John Purser, son of brother Edward Purser. "bequeath unto my said nephew John Purser my business". "nephew John Purser may have the use of the lower apartment or ground floor in my house in Saint Andrews Street in order to the more commodious carrying on of his business." [His wife had the use of the rest of the house]. executors: wife Mary Purser and Mr Francis Harrache.     Family History Notes A marriage was recorded in London in December 1730:     Joseph Purser, cork-cutter, bachelor, and     Mary Bragg, widow, both of St Martin-in-the-Fields (London Clandestine Marriage Registers, 1667–1754, Ancestry online, National Archives reference: RG7/109, description: Fleet register – [Gaynam’s register]; Wyatt’s register). Francis Harrache (ca.1710–1757) was a member of a dynasty of Huguenot silver and goldsmiths (biographical note , Bonhams auction house; and Harrache family , Wikipedia). Mary Purser – PCC Will (National Archives) will dated 8 February 1765, probate date 17 April 1765     Will Summary Mary Purser of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, widow. Jane Purser, spinster, daughter of Thomas Purser. Joseph Purser, tallow chandler, son of William Purser. cousin Elizabeth Taylor. cousin Sarah Shawn, widow. Mary Kerby, wife of John Kerby, cork-cutter. Elizabeth Smith, wife of John Smith. John Brussins of Denmark Street, St Giles-in-the-Fields, apothecary. executors: John Brussins and Jane Purser. On the day of probate: "Appeared personally Joseph Purser of the parish of Saint Anns Westminster in the County of Middlesex, cork-cutter".     Family History Notes References to John Brussins, an apothecary of Denmark Street are in the London Lives online database. For Mary, the wife of John Kerby, a possible marriage, is the marriage on 12 August 1752 at St George’s Chapel, Mayfair, Westminster:     "John Kerby and Mary Bratton of St James’s, Westminster" (Westminster parish registers, Ancestry online). John Purser – PCC Will (National Archives) will dated 3 December 1782, probate date 13 October 1783 John Purser was buried on 9 October 1783 in the ‘Old Vault, Middle Isle’ of St Olave’s Church, Hart Street, London, the church where he was married.     Will Summary John Purser of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, cork-cutter. wife Catherine Purser, executrix. son John Purser, "my trade or business of a cork-cutter to be carried on by him at my decease for his own benefit". daughter Catherine Purser.     Family History Notes Baptisms at St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, London for children of John and Catherine Purser: 3 Jul 1757 Mary Purser 11 Mar 1759 John Purser 7 Feb 1762 Catherine Purser 29 Nov 1767 Catherine Purser The parish register of St Olave’s Church, Hart Street, London recorded the marriage on 19 August 1756:     John Purser of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, bachelor, and     Catherine Seale of the parish of St Olave Hart Street, spinster,     a minor with consent of parents;     witnesses: Henry Seale, Mary Seale, Francis Harrache, Mary Purser,             Thomas Seale, S[?] Seale, [?] Horwood.     (The bride was baptised on 24 April 1737 at St Olave’s Church, Hart Street, London:     "Catherine the daughter of Mr Henery and Mary Seale"). The 1755 Kent’s London Directory listed Henry Seale and Josiah Seale as merchants of Mark Lane (London Directories, Ancestry online). The will of ‘Mary Seale of Mark Lane, London, widow’, dated 12 March 1765 ‘in the fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third’, mentioned her daughter Catherine Purser (PCC Will, National Archives, probate date 21 January 1767). This confirms the Seale family residence as Mark Lane. Mary Seale was buried on 18 January 1767 in the ‘Old Vault, Middle Isle’ of St Olave’s Church, Hart Street, London. Copyright © WhistlerHistory 2021.