Birth: February-March 1841 Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: John Purves 1786-1871
Mother: Christina Sligh 1797-1867
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 3:15 AM 19 January 1926 Middlestots, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
In the 1841 census as Margret Purves aged 3 months, born in Berwickshire, and living with John and Christian (parents?), John, Peter, and Robert (brothers?), and Agness, Janet, and Mary (sisters?) in Old Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland. The census was on 6 June 1841 so she was born in February or March.
In the 1851 census as Margaret Purves aged 10, born in Edrom, Berwick, and living with her parents (John and Christina), two brothers (Peter and Robert), and two sisters (Janet and Mary) in a house at Old Ladykirk, Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland.
In the 1861 census as Margaret Purves aged 19, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, an agricultural lablourer, and living with her parents (John and Christian), brother (Robert), sister (Agnes), married sister (Mary Ainslie) and nephew (William Ainslie) at Winfield, Whitsome, Berwickshire, Scotland.
Her daughter was born in Whitsome on 2 April 1862 - father inititially stated to be unknown, but a legal case resulted in John Dumma Hind a Farm Servant being the father. Register of Births "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 Sherrif Court of Berwickshire. on the 24th of June 1862 found that the said Child was the Illigitimate Child of the parties aforesaid. July 5th 1862 at Whitsome. 28th July 1863".
In the 1871 census as Margaret Purves aged 24, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, a general domestic servant, and living with her father (John), brother (Robert), sister (Agnes) and daughter (Agnes) in Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland.
In the 1881 census as Margaret Purves aged 37, born in Edrom, a farm servant and living with her brother (Robert), sister (Agnes) and daughter (Agnes) at Blackadder Bank, Whitsome, Berwickshire, Scotland.
In the 1891 census as Margaret Purves aged 45, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with her brother (Robert), sister (Agnes), nephew (William) and daughter (Agnes) at Little Swinton Farm, Swinton, Berwickshire, Scotland.
In the 1901 census as Margaret Purves aged 55, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, a farm servant and living with her nephew (William), his wife (Agnes), their two daughters (Lillie and Margaret S), and her brother (Robert ) at Blackadder Mains Farm Cottage, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland.
In the 1911 census as Margrate Purves aged 65, born in Edrom, single, an outdoor worker, and living with her son-in-law (William - her nephew), his wife and her daughter (Agnes), and two (grand)daughters (Lillie and Mary) in two rooms with windows at Edrom Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland.
In the 1921 census as Margaret Purves aged 76 years 3 months, born in Edrom, Berwick, no stated employment, and living with her son-in-law and daughter (Willm and Agnes Purves), two granddaughters (Lillie and Mary Jane), 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.
Entry in Register of Deaths for Margaret Sligh Purves died in 1926 aged 80 in Edrom. "Page 1 1926 Deaths in the Parish of Edrom in the County of Berwick [...] 3 Margaret Sligh Purves (Single) 1926 January Nineteenth 3h 15 m AM Middlestots aged 80, parents John Purves Farm Servant (deceased) Christina Purves M.S. Sligh (deceased) of Mycardinal degeneration, General insomnea, Cardiac Syncope Informant William Purves Son-in-law on 1926 19th January at Edrom."
Margaret Purves was the grandaunt 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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