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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Purves /Berwick on Tweed
« on: Sunday 24 November 13 19:03 GMT (UK) »Could anyone help me solve a puzzle. I am looking for the parents of Jane Robertson my 4x Great Grandmother b 1783/4 in Scotland.She married William Purves b 1788, shoemaker, Berwick on Tweed,Northumberland. On the 1851 census for England the family is listed as ...........
William Purves head 63 Formerly shoemaker b Berwick
Jane Purves wife 67 b Scotland
John Purves son 23 Shoemaker b Berwick
Allan Purves son 16 Paper Packer? b Berwick
Other children left home /married.
Ann b1818 m Alexander Hope
William b 1812 m Jane Hedley
Alex b 1836
Jane b 1810
James b 1818
Margaret b 1814
I did have a record of a Jane Robertson b 1789 Cupar Fife,but I have since learned from a descendant of her family in Australia that this is not the case.The descendant has a family bible with this family`s members recorded in it .Also the birth dates don`t` match up.So I am pretty sure she is not mine.
Unfortunately the birth place given is Scotland ,which is not really helpful.
I have found two Jane Robertsons for 1783/4 ,one in Ayton , Berwickshire.the other in Perth.
Any help would be much appreciated
Evelyn