Birth: Circa 1838 Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: John Purves 1786-1871
Mother: Christina Sligh 1797-1867
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 20 July 1860 Hilton, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Husband: Walter Ainslie c1835-1873
Death: 9:40 AM 28 October 1892 Innerlethen, Peeblesshire, Scotland, UK
Christina Ainslie 1860-1860
William Ainslie 1861-1929
John Ainslie 1864-1864
Male Ainslie 1867-1867
John Ainslie 1868-1929
Margaret Laidlaw Ainslie 1872-1891
Mary Ainslie 1874-1955
In the 1841 census as Mary Purves aged 4, born in Berwickshire, and living with John and Christian (parents?), John, Peter, and Robert (brothers?), and Agness, Janet, and Margret (sisters?) in Old Edrom, Berwickshire.
In the 1851 census as Mary Purves aged 13, born in Edrom, Berwick, and living with her parents (John and Christina), two brothers (Peter and Robert), and two sisters (Janet and Margaret) in a house at Old Ladykirk, Ladykirk, Berwickshire.
Her daughter was born and died in February 1860 in Whitsome, Berwickshire, parents Walter Ainslie Blacksmith and Mary Purves Agricultural Labourer.
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 for Mary Ann Purves and Walter Ainslie on 20 July 1860 in Whitsome and Hilton, Berwick.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Mary Ann Purves and Walter Ainslie in 1860 in Whitsome (757/2). "1860 Marriages in the Parish of Whitsome in the County of Berwick [...] No. 2 On the Twentieth day of July at Hilton Marriage (after Banns) was solemnized between us according to the Forms of the Free Church of Scotland (Signed) Walter Ainslie aged 25 of Hilton, Blacksmith Bachelor parents William Ainslie Blacksmith Margaret Ainslie Maiden Name Laidlaw, and (Signed) Mary Ann Purves aged 23 of Wyssefield [was this Winfield?], Spinster, parents John Purves (Shepherd) and Christiane Purves Maiden Name Sligh". Robt Purves was a witness.
In the 1861 census as Mary Ainslie aged 24, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, an agricultural lablourer, and boarding with her parents (John and Christian), brother (Robert), two sisters (Agnes and Margaret), and son (William Ainslie) at Winfield, Whitsome, Berwickshire. Her husband was living with his parents in Hilton, Whitsome, Berwickshire. (Winfield is just east of Hilton).
In the 1871 census as Mary Ainslie aged 33, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, and living with her husband (Walter) and two sons (John and William) in Whitsome Village, Whitsome, Berwickshire.
Her husband died on 24 Dec 1873 in Bond Street, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.
In the 1881 census as Mary Ainslie aged 42, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, widowed, a dyers widow housekeeper, and living with her two sons (John and William) and two daughters (Margaret and Mary) at Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.
In the 1891 census as Mary Ainslie aged 51, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, and living with her two sons (John and William), daughter (Mary) and a boarder (Walter Wilson aged 9 and born in Peebles, Peeblesshire) at Damside, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Mary Ainslie in 1892 aged 52 in Innerleithen (762/1 50). "Page 17 1892 Deaths in the District of Inneerleithen in the County of Pebbles [...] No. 50 Mary Ainslie Widow of Walter Ainslie Woollen Factor Dyehouse Labourer 1892 October Twenty Eighth 9 hr 40 m AM Damside, Innerleithen 52 Years parents John Purves (Ploughman, deceased) Mary Purves M.S. Slight (deceased) fyaemia 10 Days Large Varicose Ulcer on Right Leg Unknown Exhaustion Informant William Ainslie Son (Present) on 1892 October 22nd at Innerleithen".
Mary Ann 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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