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Hi Izattfraser

Thanks for getting back in touch. I didn't know about Jessie Purdie. I always figured Thomas and Isabella must have had more children: I only knew about John Hunter Purdie and Ann Cockburn Purdie. It is the latter who I am decended from. Data as follows:

THOMAS PURDIE born 21/11/1797 Tranent (son of Thomas Purdie and Agnes Cockburn)
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ISABELLA HUNTER  born 1805 (daughter of John Hunter and Ann Cockburn)

ANN COCKBURN PURDIE X CHARLES THOMSON 10.06.1859, South Leith

Children:

Charles Thomson born 04/05/1860, Edinburgh
Thomas Purdie Thomson born 26/04/1861, Edinburgh
Isabella Hunter Purdie born 01/05/1862, Edinburgh
Agnes Hunter Thomson born 06/03/1866, Prestonpans
Ann Purdie Thomson born 20/04/1869, Edinburgh
Margaret Purdie Thomson born 03/05/1872, Edinburgh
John Hunter Purdie Thomson born 21/06/1873, Edinburgh

Agnes Hunter Thomson is my Great-Grandmother. She married Lawrence Robertson on 09/09/1892, Edinburgh. Amongst their children was my Grandfather, Alexander Fisher Robertson.

I have a photocopy of Isabella Hunter and Thomas Purdie's marriage certificate in the Old Parish  Registers, as well as Thomas Purdie's birth entry in 1797. The original was passed via Ann C Purdie to her daughter Agnes Hunter Thomson and then in turn to one of her daughters.

Thanks for sharing the Jessie Purdie data with me!

Jemmiah