Birth: 1797-1801 Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: John Purves 1786-1871
Mother: Christina Sligh 1797-1867
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Christina Slight c1806-1861/71
Death: 1861-1871
All the children were born in Edrom between 1823 and 1841 except for Agnes who was born in Coldingham.
In the 1841 census as John Purves aged 40, born in Berwickshire, an agricutural labourer, and living with Christian (wife?), John, Peter, and Robert (sons?), and Agness, Janet, Mary and Margret (daughters?) in Old Edrom, Berwickshire.
In the 1851 census as John Purves aged 50, born in Edrom, Berwick, an agricultural labourer, and living with his wife Christina, two sons (Peter and Robert), and three daughters (Janet, Margaret and Mary) in a house at Old Ladtkirk, Ladykirk, Berwickshire.
In the 1861 census as John Purves aged 64, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, an agricultural lablourer and living with his wife Christian, son (Robert), two daughters (Agnes and Margaret), married daughter (Mary Ainslie) and grandson (William Ainslie) at Winfield, Whitsome, Berwickshire.
I cannot find a later entry.
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Purves born in Edrom, Berwickwhire in 1797, his marriage to Christian Purves,and three children.
John Purves was the great grandfather of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of Geoge William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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