Birth: 1797-1801 Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: John Purves 1797/1801-1861/71
Mother: Christina Slight c1806-1861/71
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Unknown
Husband: Walter Ainslie c1835-1873
Death: 1861-1871
Christina Ainslie 1860-1860
William Ainslie 1861-1864
John Ainslie 1864-1864
Male Ainslie 1867-1867
John Ainslie 1868-1929
Margaret Laidlaw Ainslie 1872-1891
Mary Ainslie 1874-1955
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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