The study is dedicated to the nobiliary familiy Purcel, attested in the Moldovan medieval documents from the beginning of the 16th century. Their freeholds were near Chisinau city, the aythor trying to identify them more rigurously according to documentary, toponymic and cartographic sources. In 1889 the courtier Evhenii Purcel founded a brick and tile factory on the family’s estate, an estate known as having several names: Ustia, Lupa, Movileni. There are presented different data and information about the factory, including unedited archival materials, included now in the scientific circuit. For the first time in historiography, a new informative source, represented by emblazed tegular materials manufactured at the factory, is also harnessed. The enterprise had an important role in the development of the production of burnt-clay building materials in Chisinau in the last decade of the 19th century and the beginning of the inter-war period..