Birth: 1:15am 18 June 1863 New Horndean, Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Peter Purves 1834-1893
Mother: Jane Miller 1830-1903
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 28 December 1900 Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Wife: Ann Anderson Hutchison 1877-1946
Death: 4:45am 9 December 1936 Birgham, Eccles, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Jane Renton Purves [Brown] 1901-1957
Mary Purves [Hogg] 1903-1968
Helen Purves [Lauder] 1906-1970
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for Peter Purves born 18 June 1863 in Ladykirk, Berwick, parents Peter Purves and Jane Millar.
Entry in the Register of Births for Peter Purves in 1863 in Ladykirk (746/ 11) "Page 4 1863 Births in the Parish of Ladykirk in the County of Berwick. [...] [No.] 11 Peter Purves 1863 June Eighteenth 1 hr 15m. A.M. New Horndean Ladykirk [parents] Peter Purves Agricultural Labourer [and] Jane Purves M.S. Millar [married] 1857 April 3rd Edrom [Informant] Peter Purves Father Present 1863 July 6th At Ladykirk".
His brother was born in New Horndean, Ladykirk in 1865, and his sister and brother in Edrom Newton in 1866 and 1869.
In the 1871 census as Peter Peroes (sic - in the index) aged 7, born in Ladykirk, Berwicksh, and living with his parents (Peter and Jane), four brothers (John, Robert, Thomas and William) and two sisters (Jane and Mary) at Alomill Cottages, Coldingham, Berwickshire.
In the 1881 census as Peter Purves aged 17, born in Ladykirk, Berwickshire, an agricultural labrour (sic) and living with his parents (Peter and Jane), four brothers (John, Robert, Thomas and William) and two sisters (Jane and Mary) in Springwells, Eccles, Berwickshire.
In the 1891 census as Peter Purves aged 27, born in Ladykirk, Berwickshire, an agricultural labourer and living with his parents (Peter and Jane), two brothers (John and Robert) and two sisters (Janet and Mary) at Simprim Mains Farm, Swinton, Berwickshire, Scotland.
He was the informant at the death of his father on 25 November 1893 in Ladykirk, Berwickshire.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for Peter Purves and Ann Anderson Hutchison in 1900 in Edrom (738/ 7). "Page 4 1900 Marriages in the Parish of Edrom in the County of Berwick [No.] 7 1900 on the Twenty Eighth day of December at Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom After Banns According to the Forms of the Church of Scotland (signed) Peter Purves General Labourer (Bachelor) [aged] 37 [of] Simprim Swinton [parents] Peter Purves Farm Servant (deceased) [and] Jane Purves M.S. Miller [and] (signed) Ann Anderson Hutchison Farm Servant (Spinster) [aged] 23 [of] Kimmergham Mains, Edrom [parents] George Hutchison Farm Servant [and] Jane Hutchison M.S. Renton Andrew Phillips Witness Jane Hutchison Witness [registered] 1900 December 29 At Edrom".
His first daughter was born on 8 March 1901 at Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom.
In the 1901 census as Peter Purves aged 34, born in Ladykirk, Berwickshire, married, a general labourer, and living with his mother (Jane), two sisters (Jane and Mary) and nephew (Peter) at Simprim Farm Cottages, Swinton, Berwickshire. His wife and daughter were living with her father and family at Kimmerghame Mains, Edrom.
His second and third daughters were born on 23 September 1903 and 21 June 1906 in Swinton.
In the 1911 census as Peter Purves aged 43, born in Ladykirk, Berwickshire, a general labourer working on his own account at home, and living with his wife (Ann), and three daughters (Helen, Jane Renton and Mary) in three rooms with one or more windows at Walter Stead Cottage, Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland. His widowed brother Thomas and nephew Thomas James were living nect door.
In the 1921 census as Peter Purves aged 57, born in Ladykirk, Berwick, an estate labourer working for William Askew Esq Landed Proprietor, one dependent child aged 14, and living with his wife (Ann A), daughter (Helen) and sister (Jane) at Walterstead, Ladykirk, Berwick.
His brother Thomas died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 20 June 1933 intestate, and Peter obtained confirmation in Duns on 12 June when he lived at Crichton Cottage, Birgham for £56 18s 5d.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Peter Purves in 1936 aged 73 in Eccles (737/ 16). "Page 6 1936 Deaths in the District of Eccles in the County of Berwickshire. [No,] 16 Peter Purves Rabbit-trapper married to Anderson Hitchison [on] 1936 December Ninth 4H. 45M. A.M. [at] Birgham Eccles [aged] 73 yrs [parents] Peter Purves Farm Labourer (deceased) [and] Jane Purves M.S. Millar (deceased) [of] Myocardial Degeneration, Pulmonary Congestion [informant] Mary Hogg Daughter [of] Bellshiel Swinton [on] 1936 December 9th At Eccles".
There are four entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Peter Purves.
Peter Purves was the uncle 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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