The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that according to popular legend, Edward William Purvis gave his nickname, meaning "jumping flea", to the ukulele?
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If the Purvis Family Tree site cannot be used as a reliable source, which I am suspecting that may be the case. We will have no other sources for his birthplace, exact date of birth, details about his British services (the Hindi, Bengal and Chatham parts), fact he resigned, education at the Royal Military College, why he settled in Hawaii, first occupation in Hawaii as palace guard and government clerk, work in cattle ranching with Judd, his cause of death and etc. So those information will just have to be removed and the article access by the stuff we can find in the available sources unless other sources can be found to replace them. --KAVEBEAR (talk) 07:48, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Exact date of birth can be found in Cheltenham College Register, 1841–1889.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 20:29, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
As this is a British army officer, I'm not sure why it's written in American English or using an American date format (especially as the first date format on the article was in British English format. – The Bounder (talk) 22:26, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
