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Jane Kirk Purnell (1827–1857)
Jane Kirk Brewster (1857–1921)

1827–1921

Second daughter of Thomas Purnell of Scarborough, Yorkshire. Married David Brewster as his second wife in Nice, France, in 1857.

Sources

ODNB s.v. Brewster, David

Scotland statutory deaths 799/1 47 (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 12 January 2018)

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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