Birth: 9:15 PM 10 April 1872 Whitsome, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Walter Ainslie c1835-1873
Mother: Mary Ann Purves c1838-1892
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 5 AM 21 January 1891 Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland, UK
None known
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Margaret Laidlaw Ainslie born on 10 April 1872 in Whitsome and Hilton, Berwick, parents Walter Ainslie and Mary Purves.
Entry in the Register of Births for Ainslie, Margaret Laidla in 1872 in Whitsome (757/ 7). "Page 3 1872 Births in the Parish of Whitsome in the County of Berwick No. 7 Margaret Laidlaw Ainslie born 1872 April Tenth 9 hr 15 mins P.M. Whitsome Village father Walter Ainslie Quarreyman, mother Mary Ainslie M.S. Purves 1860 July 20th Hilton in Whitsome, Informant Walter Ainslie father on 1872 April 22".
Her father died in Innerleithen, Peebleshire in 1873 and her sister was born in.August 1874 in Brodie's Square, High Street, Innerleithen.
In the 1881 census as Margaret Ainslie aged 8, born in Whitsome, Berwickshire, and living with her widowed mother (Mary), two brothers (John and William) and sister (Mary) at Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Ainslie Margaret Laidla in 1891 aged 18 in Innerleithen (762/1 4). "Page 2 1891 Deaths in the District of Innerleithen, in the County of Pebbles No. 4 Margaret Laidlaw Ainslie a Woollen Power Loom Weaver (Single) 1891 January Twenty First 5 hr 0 mn am Damside Innerleithen, aged 18 Years, father Walter Ainslie Woolen Factory Dyehouse Labourer deceased, mother Mary Ainslie M.S. Purves of Tuberlar Decease, Heart 1 year 3 months Suppression of Urine 2 Days Informant William Ainslie Brother Present 1891 January 21st at Leithen".
Margaret 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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