M.H. Purvis, b: -

^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}
^{1969 Armstrong first person on moon}
^{1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl}
^{1989 Berlin wall falls}
^{1991 Persian Gulf War}

^{1914 - 1918 World War I}
^{1922 USSR formed by Soviet states}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}

^{1871 Franco - Prussian War}
^{1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy}
^{1899 Boer War begins}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage}




	^B.P. Smyth^{b. d.}

^D.A. Smyth^{b. d.}

^S.A. Smyth^{b. d.}			^{Robert Ernest Purvis}^{b.1879 Hull, Yorks. d.}

^R.M. Smyth^{b. d.}		^{Harold Purvis}^{b.1912 Sculcoates, Hull, Yorks. d.}	^Alice Lee^{b.1875 Whitgift, Goole, Yorks. d.}

	^M.H. Purvis^{b. d.}		^{Daniel Currie}^{b. d.}

		^{Ellen Sloan Currie}^{b.1906 Ballymacvea, Ireland. d.1985 Whiteabbey, Ireland.}	^{Margaret Sloan}^{b. d.}