Släkthistoria för Purt
Purt Vad efternamn betyder
the Norfolk name is often if not always a modern respelling of Peart. from an unrecorded Middle English *purt perhaps meaning ‘gloomy sulky’; compare 19th-century Devon dialectal purt ‘sullen glum’ in English Dialect Dictionary . An Essex name in medieval times it is uncertain whether it survived into the post-medieval period unless it was absorbed into Peart Pert (sense ) which is recorded in the 16th century in Essex.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
