Birth: 11:30 pm 8 March 1901 Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire, UK
Father: Peter Purves 1863-1936
Mother: Ann Anderson Hutchison 1877-1946
Marriage: 26 June 1929 The Manse, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Husband: John Brown 1894-1949
Death: 7:30 am 30 July 1958 The High Street, Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
None known
Entry in the Register of Births for Jane Renton Purves in 1901 in Edrom (738/ 9). "Page 3 1901 Births in the Parish of Edrom in the County of Berwick [... No.] 9 Jane Renton Purves 1901 March Eighth 8 PM. [in] Kimmergham Mains Edrom [parents] Peter Purves Labourer [and] Ann Anderson Purves M.S. Aitchison [sic married] 1900 December 28th [in] Edrom [informant] Peter Purves Father [on] 1901 March 23rd At: Edrom". Kimmerghame Mains is a short distance south of Edrom between B6400 and Blackadder Water.
In the 1901 census as Jane Purves aged 3 weeks, born in Edrom, and living with her mother (Annie) who was living with Jane's widowed grandfather (George Hutchison), two uncles (David and James Hutchison), and aunt (Jane Hutchison) in three rooms with windows at Farm Cottages, Kimmergham Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland. Her father was living at Simprim Farm Cottages, Swinton.
Her sister was born in Swinton in 1906.
In the 1911 census as Jane Renton Purves aged 10, born in Edrom, Berwickshire and living with her parents (Peter and Ann), and two sisters (Helen and Mary) in three rooms with one or more windows at Walter Stead Cottage, Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland.
I cannot locate her in the 1921 census, but she was not living with her parents.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Jane Renton Purves and John Brown in 1929 in Coldstream (733/ 8). "Page 4 1929 Marriages in the Parish of Coldstream in the County of Berwick [No.] 8 1929 on the Twenty-sixth day of June at The Manse Coldstream After Banns according to the Forms of the Church of Scotland John Brown Postman (Bachelor) [aged] 34 [of] 20 Duke Street Coldsteam [father] Thomas Brown Postman [mother] Maria Ellen Brown M.S. Thompson (deceased), [and] Jane Renton Purves Domestic Servant (Spinster) [aged] 27 [of] Brighton? Cottage Birgham Eccles [father] Peter Purves General Labourer [mother] Ann Anderson Purves M.S. Hutchison Witness Helen Purves Brighton? Cottage Birgham"
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Jane Renton Brown in 1958 aged 57 in Coldstream (733/ 17). "1958 Deaths in the District of Coldstream in the County of Berwick [...] [No.] 17 Jane Renton Brown Married to John Brown Postman [on] 1958 July Thirtieth 7h. 30m A.M. [at] The High Street Coldstream [aged] 57 Years [parents] Peter Purves General Labourer (deceased) [and] Ann Anderson Purves M.S. Hutchison (deceased) [of] Cerebal Hemorage [Infirmant] J. Brown Widower [on] 1958 July 3rd At Coldstream".
There is an entry in Ancestry Family Trees for Jane Renton Purves, two for Jane Purves and two for Jean Purves, one of which gives her husband as John Brown and son Peter Brown born 1920 and died 1945.
Jane Renton 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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