Birth: 3 September 1806 Channelkirk, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Walter Ainslie 1781-a1820
Mother: Janet Henderson 1864-a1820
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Margaret Laidlaw c1810-1878
Death: 6:15 AM 2 July 1873 Couldhame Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland, UK
Margaret Ainslie c1834-a1871
Walter Ainslie c1835-1873
Janet Ainslie 1849-a1871
Elisabeth Ainslie 1851-a1871
Two entries in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for the birth of William Ainslie on 3 September 1806 in Channelkirk, Berwick, Scotland, and on 4 September 1806 in Cranshaws, Berwick, Scotland, parents Walter Ainslie and Janet Henderson in both. Channelkirk and Cranshaws are some 10 milres apart, but the Cranshaws entry was written in 1820.
Two entries in Scotlands People for the birth of William Ainslie parents Walter Ainslie and Janet Henderson, on 3 September 1806 in Channelkirk (729 20 99) "Ainslie Walter indweller in ? & Janet Henderson his spouse had a son born the 3rd Day of Septr 1806 years & Baptized named William" and on 4 September 1809 in Cranshaws (734 30 6) "1820 Cranshaws [...] Walter Ainslie & Janet Henderson had a Son 18th July 1804 named Adam, James Ainslie Son born 22 Sepm 1805 Wm Ainslie born 4th Sept 1806, Arch Ainslie born 17th March 1813 Janet Ainslie his daughter born 5 Sept 1809, Alex Ainslie his Son born 7th April 1815 Betty his daughter born 17th Jany 1817".
In the 1851 census as William Anselie (sic) aged 43, born in Canelkirk (sic), Berwickshire, a black smith, and living with his wife (Margret Anelie) and two daughters (Jessie and Margret Anelie) in Horse Market Street, Kelso, Roxburghshire.
In the 1861 census as William Ainslie aged 54, born in Channelkirk, Berwickshire, a blacksmith, and living with his wife (Margaret), son (Walter), and three daughters (Elisabeth, Janet and Margaret) in Whitsome, Berwickshire.
In the 1871 census as William Ainslie aged 63, born in Channelkirk, Berwickshire, a blacksmith and living with his wife (Margret), three daughters (Elizabeth, Jessie and Margret), and a boarder (Thomas Laidlaw aged 70, born in Melrose, Roxburghshire and a mason - brother-in-law?) at Wilsons Cottages, Innerleithen,
Entry in the Register of Deaths for William Ainslie "Page 8 Deaths in the Parish of Innerleithen in the County of Pebbles No. 22 William Ainslie Blacksmith Married to Margaret Laidlaw 1873 July Second 6 hr 15 m AM Couldhame Innerleithen aged 66 years father William (sic) Ainslie Ploughman (Deceased) Janet Ainslie M.S. Henderson (Deceased) Congestion & Inflammation of Lungs 4 Days informant Walter Ainslie Son Miller Street Innerleithen (Present)."
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Ainslie born on 3 September 1806 in Berwickshire, Scotland, parents Walter Ainslie and Janet Henderson.
William Ainslie was the father of Walter Ainslie, husband of Mary Ann Purves, grandaunt of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of Geoge William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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