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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 1685 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Purvis and Wanless families of Houghton-le-Spring

Covering Dates: c.1920-1964

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    • Records of the Purvis and Wanless families (Ref: D/X 1685/1-7)

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Records given:

22 December 2008 Acc: 7277

Catalogue Contents

Records of the Purvis and Wanless families (Ref: D/X 1685/1-7)Ref: D/X 1685/1

Photograph of Mary Jane Wanless standing with violins, when she was 17 years old, n.d. [ c.1920]
(1 photograph, 8.1 cm. x 12.7 cm., sepia)

Ref: D/X 1685/2

Photograph of Lambton Purvis (on the left) and William Martin Purvis (on the right), n.d. [ c.1920]
(1 photograph, 7.9 cm. x 12.6 cm., sepia)

Ref: D/X 1685/3

Photograph of Martin Purvis and Mary Jane Purvis, nee Wanless, with their twin daughters Kathleen Mary and Maureen May, n.d. [1930s]
(1 photograph, 7.7 cm. x 12 cm., sepia)

Ref: D/X 1685/4

Photograph of Maureen May Purvis (on the left) and her twin sister Kathleen Mary, n.d. [1930s]
(1 photograph, 11.8 cm. x 12 cm., sepia)

Ref: D/X 1685/5

Photograph of Maureen Purvis (on the left) and her sister Kathleen, probably with their nanny, in the back yard of 54 Edwin Street in Houghton-le-Spring, July 1939
(1 photograph, 6.4 cm. x 8.5 cm., black and white)

Ref: D/X 1685/6

Photograph of Lizzie and Jack Purvis sitting in the garden, parents of William Martin, and grandparents of Kathleen and Maureen, n.d. [1930s]
(1 photograph, 7.8 cm. x 13 cm., sepia)

Ref: D/X 1685/7

Copy of an article from the Durham Chronicle entitled 'Wed in a snowstorm of last century!' about the 65th wedding anniversary of Joseph and Jenny Wanless, parents of Mary Jane Purvis nee Wanless, 27 March 1964



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