Birth: 3:30 pm 21 June 1906 Swinton, Berwickshire, UK
Father: Peter Purves 1863-1936
Mother: Ann Anderson Hutchison 1877-1946
Marriage: 26 October 1934 Manse, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Husband: James Hutchison Lauder 1902-1980
Death: 4 April 1906 Border, Cumberland, UK
Buried: Kelso Rosebank Cemetery, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
James William Hogarth Lauder 1935-1935
Gordon Lauder 1938-1998
Ann Hutchison Lauder [Forster] 1941-2002
Ian Lauder 1941-1942
Entry in the Register of Births for Helen Purves in 1906 in Swinton (755/ 10). "1906 Births in the Parish of Swinton in the County of Berwick [No.] 10 Helen Purves [on] 1906 June Twenty First 3h. 30m. P.M. [in] Swinton [parents] Peter Purves Labourer [and] Ann Anderson Purves M.S. Hutchison [marrried] 1900 28th December Kimmerghame Mains [informant] Peter Purves Father [on] 1906 30th June At Swinton".
In the 1911 census as Helen Purves aged 4, born in Swinton, Berwickshire and living with her parents (Peter and Ann), and two sisters (Jane Renton and Mary) in three rooms with one or more windows at Walter Stead Cottage, Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland.
In the 1921 census as Helen Purves aged 14 years 11 months, born in Swinton, Berwick and living with her parents (Peter and Ann A), and sister (Jane) in three rooms at Walterstead, Ladykirk, Berwick.
Helen Purves was a witness at the marriage of her sister Jane and Thomas Brown at The Manse, Coldstream on 26 June 1929.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Helen Purves and James Hutchison Lauder in 1934 in Coldstream (733/ 7). "Page 4 1934 Marriage in the District of Coldstream in the County of Berwick, 1934 on the Twenty Sixth day of October at the Manse Coldstream after Banns According to the form of the Church of Scotland James Hutchison Lauder General Labourer Bachelor [aged] 32 [of] Kersnore? ? [parents] William Lauder Farm Labourer [and] Margaret Lauder M.S. Hogarth, [and] Helen Purves Dpmestic Servant Spinster [aged] 28 [of] Birgham Eccles [parents] Peter Purves General Labourer [and] Ann Anderson Purves M.S. Hutchison [witnesses] Henry ? Lauder [of] ? Kelso [and] Sadie R Hutchison [of] Hillside ? Chirnside".
Her first two sons were born in Birgham in 1935 and 1938, and son and daughter (twins) in George Square, Edinburgh in 1941.
Death of Helen Lauder, born 21 June 1906, in FreeBMD in April-June 1970 in Border (1a 11).
Entry in Find a Grave for Helen Lauder died 4 April 1970 buried Kelso Rosebank Cemetery. "In Loving/Memory of/Helen Purves/Died4th April 1970/Aged 63/Wife of/James H Lauder/Died 5th August 1980/Aged 77/Also Ian Their Son/Died 17th Oct 1942/Aged 16 Months".
Seven entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Helen Purves.
Helen Purves was the first cousin 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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