In June 1841, George Purchase was a mason living at Barry Lane.
Childhood at West Coker
George was born at West Coker in about 1807, the son of Thomas and Ann.
Life at Hardington
On 9 April 1829, George married Edith Bartlett at Hardington. She was the youngest child of Edward and Sarah Bartlett. Her father was a yeoman.
George and Edith lived at Hardington for about four years.
Life at Halstock
They then moved to Halstock, where they lived from about 1833 to 1838. While there, George worked as a mason.
Return to Hardington
By June 1841, they lived at Barry Lane, Hardington Mandeville.
Edith died in the Union workhouse in February 1843, aged 35.
Their two youngest children, Mahala and Giles, were in the Yeovil workhouse in March 1851. Giles, aged 10, died there in 1853.
Widowhood
George has not been found on the census of 1851.
In April 1861, he was a marine store dealer at West Coker Street, West Coker. A marine store dealer was essentially a junk dealer.
George died in August 1869, aged 62.
George’s oldest son, Alfred Bartlett Purchase., married at Winchester in September 1852 and became a whitesmith in that city.