Birth: 5:20 pm 10 July 1865 Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Robert Hamilton c1834-1896
Mother: Isabella Edgar c1838-1883
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 19 December 1899 Swinton, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Husband: Robert Purves 1869-1926
Death: 9:35pm 14 September 1923 Royal Infirmary, George Square, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
None known
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Margaret Hamilton on 10 July 1865 in Coldingham, Berwick, Scotland, parents Robert Hamilton and Isabella Edgar.
Entry in the Register of Births for Hamilton Margaret in 1865 in Coldingham (732/66). "Page 22 1865 Births in the Parish of Coldingham in the County of Berwick [...] No. 66 Margaret Hamilton 1865 July Tenth 5 hr 20m P.M. at Horsely? Parish of Coldingham, parents Robert Hamilton Ploughman, Isabella Hamilton M.S. Edgar, 1861 May 20th Duns, informant Robert Hamilton father 1865 July 23rd at Coldingham".
In the 1871 census as Margaret Hamilton aged 5, born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, and living with her parents (Robert and Isabella), two sisters (Caroline Smith and Jane), half-brother (William Edgar), grandmother (Caroline Edgar) and a servant (Mary Ann Potertard aged 31 and born in England) at Lintlaw Ag Lab Cottage, Bunkle and Preston, Berwickshire.
In the 1881 census as Margaret Hamilton aged 15, born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, a farm servant, and living with her parents (Robert and Isabella), brother (George) and sister (Jane) in Farm Cottage Swinton Quarter, Swinton, Berwickshire.
Her mother died in Swinton in 1883.
In the 1891 census as Margaret Hamilton aged 25, born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, a farm servant, and living with her father (Robert), brother (George), and two sisters (Caroline and Jane) at Gunsgreenhill Farm Cott Att, Ayton, Berwickshire.
Her father died in Swinton in 1896.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Hamilton Margaret and Robert Purves in 1899 in Swinton (755/ 5). "Page 3 1899 Marriages in the Parish of Swinton in the County of Berwick No. 5 1899 on the Twenty ninth day of December at Swinton ? after Banns according to the forms of the Established Church (signed) Robert Purves Farm Servant (Bachelor) of Simprim aged 29, parents Peter Purves Farm Servant (deceased), Jane Purves M.S. Miller, and (signed) Margaret Hamilton outworker (spinster) of Swinton ? aged 34 , Robert Hamilton Farm Servant (deceased) Isabella Hamilton M.S. Edgar on 1899 December At Swinton.
In the 1901 census as Margaret Purves aged 35, born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, and living with her husband (Robert) at Green Higgs Farm, Swinton, Berwickshire.
In the 1911 census as Margaret Purves aged 45, born in Coldingham, Berwickshire, married for 11 years with no children, an outworker on farm and living with her husband (Robert) in four rooms with windows in Crucklaw Farm Cottage, Edrom, Berwickshire.
In the 1921 census as Margaret Purves aged 55 years 11 months, born in Coldingham, Berwicksh, no dependent children, and living with her husband (Robert) in four rooms in Woodends Farm Cottage, Langton, Berwickshire.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Margaret Purves mother's maiden name Edger in 1923 in George Square (685 / 5/ 954). "Page 138 1923 Deaths in the District of George Square in the City of Edinburgh [...] No.] 954 Margaret Purves Married to Robert Purves Farm Servant 1923 September Fourteenth 9h 35m. PM Royal Infirmary Edinburgh Usual Residence Woodend Langton Berwickshire [aged] 58 years [parents] Robert Hamilton Ploughman (deceased) [and] Isabella Hamilton M.S. Edger [sic] (deceased) of Acute Cholecystitis (19 days) hypostatic pneumonia (6 days) [informant] Registrar Royal Infirmary Edinburh [on] 1923 September 18th At Edinburgh."
There are eighteen entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Margaret Hamilton.
Margaret Hamilton was the wife of Robert Purves, uncle 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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