Can you help connect the translator of the Quaker Bible?

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I have created a profile for Anthony Purver, translator of the "Quaker Bible" (1764). Can one of our volunteers help to connect him to the tree? I was not finding anything definitive on his parentage nor his children. For Quaker Project members not familiar with the Purver translation, you will find his profile of interest.

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Has anyone linked to these records yet?
 

https://calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=85037%2f8%2f5%2f19&pos=1
 

Anthony Purver of Upphusborne, schoolmaster 1737

https://calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=1777A%2f095&pos=3

Will of Anthony Purver of Andover, Hampshire, schoolmaster, 1777
 

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Thanks, Vance.

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There's a book or pamphlet about him: Anthony Purver, Quaker

https://books.google.fi/books/about/Anthony_Purver_Quaker.html?id=bo16NQAACAAJ&redir_esc=y


Possibly his father:

Will of Thomas Philpot, alias Thomas Purver, of Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire, yeoman, 1713

https://calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=1713B%2f56&pos=21

On edit: turns out this is his uncle. See below.

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Nice profile!

Answer 1

A few clues that may help to get started:

According to the 4th page of his entry in the Chalmers General Biographical Dictionary he had a son and a daughter who both pre-deceased him, the daughters name being Hannah who married Isaac Bell and had a son called John Purver Bell (free-to view images of page 1 - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/sharing/27109000?h=5b24c3, page 2 - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/sharing/27109010?h=0828c6, page 3 - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/sharing/27109024?h=2f1852 and page 4 - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/sharing/27109032?h=220c5f)

There is a marriage record for a Hannah Purver, daughter of Anthony and Rachel, on 21 September 1762 in Alton, Hampshire - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWF3-LZS.

Although the transcription doesn't name her husband, there is also a marriage record for Isaac Bell, son of Jacob and Margaret, on the same day in the same place - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW26-GZQ.

There are also records for a John Purver Bell born in 1769, died on 11 January 1824 - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:C4BH-BN6Z. His marriage record on 28 February 1788 names his parents as Isaac and Hannah and his spouse as Hester Bonner, daughter of Samuel and Sarah - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:C11T-FRZM.

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Thanks to both Paul and Vance for the research assistance. I've put an acknowledgment on the profile and will see if I can now develop a profile for his wife, daughter and perhaps the son (died in childhood?).

Answer 2

Here's a biography of him, quite extensive.

His birth:
Once upon a time, then, by the chalk streams of a tributary of the River Test in Hampshire, there was born a child called Anthony. He was the illegitimate son of Sarah Purver, and was christened at St Peter’s, St Mary Bourne on 28 December 1702, it being then the local custom to baptise all ‘base born’ children in the days around Christmas. No father is named in the register (or has ever been identified). Although the Purver family had been solid merchants or farmers in the area going back to at least Tudor times, this was a very unpropitious start in life. The baby Anthony was handed over to be brought up by an uncle, Thomas Purver, a farmer from the neighbouring village of Hurstbourne Tarrant. His mother Sarah was married off in 1711 to an Andover merchant, Christopher Treadgell.

http://www.layanglicana.org/blog/page/58/?doing_wp_cron=1593044983.0155470371246337890625

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Sarah's marriage in 1711/2 - https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5817e113e93790eb7fbacca9. 

Unfortunately FreeReg currently only has marriages from St Peter's in St Mary Bourne, it doesn't yet have baptisms (https://www.freereg.org.uk/freereg_contents/5409cfd4eca9eb718212cde9/church?locale=en)

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Looks like more citations might be found in the “academic” version of the biographical profile which is mentioned in the footnotes at the layanglicana link.

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It looks like Purveyor is an early form of this name, with one branch being Philpott alias Purveyor (like Thomas Philpot alias Purver mentioned above).

1661 Marriage at Highclere. Christopher Philpot, alias Purveyor, & Jone
https://archive.org/details/hampshireparish00oglagoog/page/n12/mode/2up

1665 John Philpott, alias Purveyor, of Highclere, husbandman, land in Hurstbourne Priors
https://calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=48018%2f15&pos=1

1669 William Philpott alias Purveyor and Clement his wife have one messuage or tenement called the Mores, in Kings Inham, Andover
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/C78/C78no1073/IMG_0372.htm

1691 Churchwarden of St Mary Bourne: George Philpott alias Purveyor
https://calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=Q%2f4%2f25%2f2%2f7%2f17&pos=4

1711 Benjamin Philpott alias Purveyor of Andover, sergeweaver
https://calm.hants.gov.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=85037%2f9%2f1%2f15&pos=3
 

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Thanks to both Paul and Vance for the research assistance. I've put an acknowledgment on the profile and will see if I can now develop a profile for his wife, daughter and perhaps the son (died in childhood?).