Birth: 9pm 31 May 1877 Oldhamstocks, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
Father: George Hutchison c1850-1925
Mother: Jane Coltart Renton 1850-1891
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 28 December 1900 Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Husband: Peter Purves 1863-1936
Death: 7:40pm 7 August 1946 High Street, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Jane Renton Purves [Brown] 1901-1957
Mary Purves [Hogg] 1903-1968
Helen Purves [Lauder] 1906-1970
Entry in the Register of Births for Ann Anderson Hutchison in 1877 in Oldhamstocks (714/ 8). "Page 3 1877 Births in the Parish of Oldhamstocks in the County of Haddington [...] No. 8 Ann Anderson Hutchison (Illigitimate) 1877 May Thirtyfirst 9 hr 0 m P.M. [in] Oldhamstocks village [father] George Hutchison [a] Farm Servant [mother] Jane Colltaid Renton [a] Domestic Servant [illegible note added] [informants] Jane C Renton [mother] George Hutchison ? Bowshiel parish Cockburnspath) [on] 1877 June 20th At Oldhamstock".
Her parents married on 21 December 1877 in Oldhamstocks.
Her sister was born in Coldingham in 1879.
In the 1881 census census as Ann A Hutchison aged 3, born in O. Hamstocks, Berwickshire, and living with her parents (George and Jane), brother (George H) and sister (Helen) at Blackburn, Chirnside, Berwickshire.
In the 1891 census as Annie Hutchison aged 13, born in Old Hamstock, East Lothian, a farm servant, and living with her parents (George and Jane), six brothers (Archbald, David, Frank, George, James and Thoams) and sister (Jane) at Gunsgreenhill Farm Cott Att, Ayton, Berwickshire.
Her mother died in 1891 in Ayton, Berwickshire.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Ann Anderson Hutchison and Peter Purves in 1900 in Edrom (738/ 7). "Page 4 1900 Marriages in the Parish of Edrom in the County of Berwick [No.] 7 1900 on the Twenty Eighth day of December at Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom After Banns According to the Forms of the Church of Scotland (signed) Peter Purves General Labourer (Bachelor) [aged] 37 [of] Simprim Swinton [parents] Peter Purves Farm Servant (deceased) [and] Jane Purves M.S. Miller [and] (signed) Ann Anderson Hutchison Farm Servant (Spinster) [aged] 23 [of] Kimmergham Mains, Edrom [parents] George Hutchison Farm Servant [and] Jane Hutchison M.S. Renton Andrew Phillips Witness Jane Hutchison Witness [registered] 1900 December 29 At Edrom".
Her first daughter was born on 8 March 1901 at Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom.
In the 1901 census as Annie Purves aged 13 (sic - in the index, 23 on the original), born in Oldhamstocks, Berwickshire (sic - on the original), and living with her widowed father (George), daughter (Jane), three brothers (David, George and James), sister (Jane) at Farm Cottage K M (Kimmerghame Mains), Edrom, Berwickshire. Her husband was living at Simprim Farm Cottages, Swinton.
Her second and third daughters were born on 23 September 1903 and 21 June 1906 in Swinton.
In the 1911 census as Ann Purves aged 33, born in Oldhamstocks, Haddington, married for 10 years with three children all still living, and living with her husband (Peter), and three daughters (Helen, Jane Renton and Mary) in three rooms with one or more windows at Walter Stead Cottage, Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland.
In the 1921 census as Ann A Purves aged 43 years 1 month, born in Oldhamstocks, Haddington, and living with her husband (Peter), daughter (Helen) and sister-in-law (Jane) in three rooms at Walterstead, Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland.
Her husband died at Birgham, Eccles on 9 December 1936.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Ann Anderson Purves in 1946 aged 69 in Coldstream (733/ 18). "Page 6 1946 Deaths in the District of Coldream in the County of Berwick [...] [No.] 18 Ann Anderson Purves Widow of Peter Purves RabbitTrapper 1946 August Seventh 7 hr 40 M PM High Street Coldstream [aged] 69 years [parents] George Hutchison Farm Servant (deceased) [and] Jane Hutchison M.S. Renton (deceased) [of] Congestive Heart Failure Hypertension Arterio Sclerosis [Informant] R Hogg Son-in-Law [of] Roselea Swinton [on] 1946 August 7th At Coldstream.
There are twelve entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Ann Anderson Hutchison.
Note that Haddingtonshire is the old name for East Lothian (until 1921).
Ann Anderson Hutchison was the wife of Peter 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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