This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pursley, McMahon, Black Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FdB.2ACE/474.1.1 Message Board Post: The surname is Pursley. James Pursley settled in York Co, SC in the last quarter of the 1700s. Your family descends from him.