Birth: 5:10am 19 July 1920 Kimmerghame Mill, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: James Grieve 1894-1962
Mother: Margaret Sligh Purves 1894-1983
Marriage: 4 April 1953 Crailing, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Wife: Helen Lindores 1925-2021
Death: 16 November 1991 Upper Nisbet Farm, Crailing, Roxburgh, Borders, Scotland, UK
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Entry in the Register of Births for William Grieve in 1920 in Edrom (738/ 16). "Page 6 Births in the Parish of Edrom in the County of Berwick [No.] 16 William Grieve 1920 July Nineteenth 5h. 10m, AM [at] Kimmerghame Mill, Edrom [parents] James Grieve Ploughman [and] Margaret Sligh Grieve M.S. Purves [married] 1916 February 18th [in] Duns [informant] James Grieve Father Present [on] 1920 July 21st At Edrom".
In the 1921 census as Willm Grieve aged 1 month, born in Edrom, Berwick, and living with his parents (James and Margt Sligh) and brother (Robert) in three rooms at Kimmr Mill Farm Cottage, Edrom, Berwickshire. His grandparents were living in the farm house.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for William Grieve and Helen Lindores in 1953 in Crailing (786 /1).
Entry in the Register of Deaths for William Grieve, mother's maiden name Purves, in 1991 in Jedburgh (822/ 49).
There are five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Grieve adding his marriage to Helen Lindores on 4 April 1953 in Crailing, Roxburghshire, and his death on 16 November 1991 at Upper Nisbet Farm, Crailing, Roxburghshire.
There is a website for Upper Nisbet Farm taken over by the Neill family in May 2000.
William Grieve 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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