Birth: 9:15 PM 17 July 1868 Whitsome Village, Whitsome, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Walter Ainslie c1835-1873
Mother: Mary Ann Purves c1838-1892
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 1:50 PM 21 September 1929 Caerlee Cottages, Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland, UK
None known
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for John Ainslie born on 17 July 1868 in Whitsome and Hilton, Berwick, parents Walter Ainslie and Mary Purves.
Entry in the Register of Births for John Ainslie in 1868 in Whitsome (757/ 9). "Page 3 1868 Births in the Parish of Whitsome in the County of Berwick [...] No. 9 John Ainslie [born] 1868 July Seventeenth 9 hr 0 mins P.M. Whitsome Village [father] Walter Ainslie Quarryman, [mother] Mary Ainslie M.S. Purves 1860 July 20th Hilton, [informant] Walter Ainslie father [on] 1868 August 6th".
In the 1871 census as John Ainslie aged 2, born in Whitsone (sic - in the index), Berwickshire, and living with his parents (Walter and Mary) and brother (William) in Whitsome Village, Whitsome, Berwickshire.
His sister was born in Whitsome in 1872, his father died in Innerleithen, Peebleshire in 1873 and his sister was born in August 1874 in Brodie's Square, High Street, Innerleithen.
In the 1881 census as John Ainslie aged 12, born in Whitsome, Berwickshire, and living with his widowed mother (Mary), brother (William) and two sisters (Margaret and Mary) at Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.
In the 1891 census as John Ainslie aged 22, born in Whitsome, Berwickshire, single, a woolen caeding machine minder, and living with his mother (Mary), brother (William), sister (Mary) and a boarder (Walter Wilson aged 9 and born in Peebles, Peeblesshire) at Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.
In the 1901 census as John Ainslie aged 52 (sic - in the index, probably 32 on the original), born in Whitsome, Berwick, single, a carthy (Carding?) Machins (machine?) Attendan (attendent) woollen factory and living with his brother (William) and sister (Mary) at 4 Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.
In the 1911 census as John Ainslie aged 42, born in Whitsome, Berwickshire, single, a woollen yarn carder for a woolen yarn spinner, and living with his brother (William), sister (Mary) and a boarder (Mary Thompson aged 10 and born in Peebles, Pebblesshire) at in two rooms with windows at Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.
In the 1921 census as John Ainslie aged 52 years 11 months, born in Whitsome, Berwickshire, single, a carding room jobber working for Ballentyne Bros & Co (woolen manufacturer), and living with his brother (William - head of family), sister (Mary) and a boarder (Mary K Thomson aged 20 years 7 months, born in Innerleithen, Peebles and an assistant cashier for Innerleithen Co Op Society Ltd) in three rooms at Cairlea Cottages, Burghal, Innerleithen.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for John Ainslie in 1929 aged 61 in Innerleithen (762/1 21). "Page 7 1929 Deaths in the District of Innerleithen, in the County of Pebbles No. 21 John Ainslie [a] Woollen Spinning Machine Weaver (Single) 1929 September Twenty First 1 hr 50 mn PM Caerlee Cottages, Damside, Innerleithen, [aged] 61 Years, [father] Walter Ainslie Woolen Mill Labourer deceased, [mother] Mary Ainslie M.S. Purves, [of] Malignious Decease, Intestine [informant] Mary Ainslie Sister (Present) 1929 September 23rd at Innerleithen".
John Ainslie was the first cousin once removed of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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