Birth: 1:00pm 2 April 1862 Wynnfield, Whitsome, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: John Dumma Hind
Mother: Margaret Purves 1841-1926
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 2 March 1895 Little Swinton, Swinton, Berwickshire, UK
Husband: William Purves 1865-1931
Death: 8:20am 15 February 1931 Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire, UK
Margaret Sligh Purves [Grieve] 1894-1983
Lillie Purves [McLeod] 1901-1957
Mary Jane Purves 1904-1968
Another unknown child died before 1911
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Agnes Purves born 2 April 1862 in Whitsome and Hilton,Berwick, mother Agnes Purves.
Entry in the Register of Births for Agnes Purves in 1862 in Whitsome (757/ 9). "1862 Births in the Parish of Whitsome in the County of Berwick [...] No. 9 See Register of Corrected Entries Vol 1 Paternity of Child found by Dec [illegible] Vol. 1 3 July 5th 1862 Agnes Purves (Illegitimate) 1862 April Second 1 hr 0 min P.M. Wynnfield, Whitsome mother Agnes Purves Agricultural Labourer Informant Agnes Purves Mother [who made her mark] 1862 April 17th at Whitsome", " "Page 2 Register of Corrected Entries for the Parish of Whitsome in the County of Berwick In the Fourth Column of Entry No. 9, in the Register Book of Births for the Year 1862, for Agnes substitute Margaret, and in Column Fifth for Mother substitute Nurse (Present). The above corrections are made under the direction and by the written authority of the Sherriff in consequence of the Deposition dated April 29th 1862 of John Turnbullk Registrar, Margaret Purves Mother of the Child to which the said Entry relates and Agnes Purves Informant of the Birth April 29th 1862. 28th July 1863", and "Page 3 Register of Corrected Entries for the Parish of Whitsome in the County of Berwick In the Fourth Column of Entry No. 9 in the Register Book of Births for the year 1862 before the name of the Child's Mother insert John Dumma Hind a Farm Servant, on the authority of a Certificate in the Form of Schedule(?), to the following effect:- In an action relating to the paternity of a Child named Agnes Purves, born April 2nd 1862 at the instance of Margaret Purves daughter of John Purves, Labourer, Wynfield against John Dumma Hind, a Farm Servant, Wynfield the Sherriff Court of Berwickshire. on the 24th of June 1862 found that the said Child was the Illegitimate Child of the parties aforesaid. July 5th 1862 at Whitsome. 28th July 1863".
In the 1871 census as Agnes Purves aged 9, born in Whitsome, Berwick, and living with her grandfather (Robert Purves), uncle and aunt (Robert and Agnes Purves) and mother? (Margaret) in Edrom, Berwickshire.
In the 1881 census as Agnes Purves aged 19, born in Whitsome, Berwickshire, a farm servant, and living with her uncle and aunt (Robert and Agnes) and mother? (Margaret)at Blackadder Bank, Edrom, Berwickshire.
In the 1891 census as Agnes Purves aged 26, born in Whitsome, Berwickshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with her uncle and aunt (Robert and Agnes), uncle (Robert - head of household), mother? (Margaret), and cousin? (William - future husband?) at Little Swinton Farm, Swinton, Berwickshire.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Agnes Purves and William Purves in 1894 in Swinton (755 1). "Page 1 1894 Marriages in the Parish of Swinton in the County of Berwick1894 No. 1 on the Second March at Little Swinton After Banns according to the Forms of the Church of Scotland.(signed) William Purves, Farm Servant, Bachelor, Cousin, aged 29 of Little Swinton, parents Peter Purves, Farm Servant, deceased, and Jane Purves M.S. Miller, and Agnes Purves, Outworker, Spinster, Cousin, aged 30 of Little Swinton, mother Margaret Purves, Outworker, registered 1894 March 5th At: Swinton".
Her first daughter was born in Little Swinton, Swinton in 1894 and her second daughter in Blackadder Mains, Edrom on 20 January 1901.
In the 1901 census as Agnes Purves aged 38, born in Whitsome, Berwickshire, and living with her husband (William), two daughters (Lillie and Margaret S), uncle (Robert ) and aunt (Margaret) at Blackadder Mains Farm Cottage, Edrom, Berwickshire.
Another daughter was born in Edrom Mains, Edrom in 1904 and another unknown child died before 1911.
In the 1911 census as Agnes Purves aged 44, born in Whitsom, Berwickshire, married for 17 years with four children, three still living, and living with her husband (William), two daughters (Lillie and Mary) and mother (Margaret) in two rooms with windows in Edrom Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire.
In the 1921 census as Agnes Purves aged 57 years 2 months, born in Whitsome, Berwick, and living with her husband (Willm), two daughters (Lillie and Mary Jane), mother (Margaret) and a lodger (John Watson Vere aged 21 years 3 months, born in Canonbie, Dumfries, single, and an engine drive in timber trade working for A. M. Carmichel timber merchant) in four rooms at Middlestots Farm Cottages, Edrom, Berwickshire. Her future son-in-law and parents were living next door.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Agnes Purves in 1931 aged 68 in Edrom (738/ 3). "Page 1 1931 Deaths in the District of Edrom in the County of Berwick [...] No. 3 Agnes Purves Housewife (Married to William Purves) Ploughman on 1931 February Fifteenth 8 hrs 20 m A.M. at Kimmerghame Mains aged 68 yrs mother Margaret Purves (Deceased), of a) Myocardial Degeneration b) Gastrointestinal & Bronchial Catarrh, informant James Grieves Son-in-law of Milne Graten? West Mains, Coldstream on 1931 February 15th At Edrom.
Agnes Purves 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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