Birth: 11:05am 27 May 1904 Edrom Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: William Purves 1865-1931
Mother: Agnes Purves 1862-1931
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 1968 Ladykirk, Swinton and Whitsome, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
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Entry in the Register of Births for Mary Jane Purves in 1904 in Edrom (738/ 11) "Page 4 Births in the Parish of Edrom in the County of Berwick [...] No. 11 Mary Jane Purves 1904 May Twenty Seventh 11 hr 5 A.M. Edrom Mains Edrom parents William Purves, Ploughman, Agnes Purves M.S. Purves 1894 March 2nd Swinton, informant William Purves Father Present on 1904 June 5th At Edrom"
In the 1911 census as Mary Purves aged 6, born in Edrom, Berwickshire, and living with her parents (William and Agnes), sister (Lillie) and grandmother (Margaret) in two rooms with windows in Edrom Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire.
In the 1921 census as Mary Jane Purves aged 17 years 1 month, born in Edrom, Berwick, single, a housemaid, and living with her parents (Willm and Agnes), sister (Lillie), grandmother (Margaret) 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 the Register of Deaths for Mary Jane Purves in 1968 aged 64 in Ladykirk, Swinton and Whitsome (755/ 6).
There are five entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Mary Jane Purves.
Mary Jane 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 Geoge William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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