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Topic: AITKEN family, West Linton, Peeblesshire (Read 2410 times)
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Danchaslyn
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hello Margmo1
What an amazing, very sweet, kind and generous gift you have sent to me, of the book entitled "Old West Linton", by T. C. Atkinson.
It is packed full of wonderful, old photographs of West Linton, Kirkurd, Carlops, Lamancha, Romanno Bridge, Mountain Cross, Blyth Bridge and Dolphinton.
A fascinating insight into how life was there in over a hundred years ago!
Thank you so very much. I shall be sending pic copies of some of the old "Aitken haunts" to both "weech" and "baitken".
Margmo1 you are a star! 
Cheers
Danchaslyn
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MOE, Norway, Swaziland, and Zululand, South Africa
JORGENSON, Hole, Ringerike, Buskurud, Norway
AITKEN, Scotland, England, India, Island of St Helena, South Africa
LOBB, India and London
WALSH, India and England
SHORT, Yorkshire, England, Island of St Helena
BATEMAN, Island of St Helena, U.S.A.
YUILL, U.S.A.
FIRTH, Yorkshire, Engand
LIPTROT, various counties of England
SMITH, various counties of England
LYNCH, Yorkshire, England, Rhodesia and South Africa
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Danchaslyn
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Posts: 596
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hello baitken
You posted in RC, Mid-Lothian, Grace Aitken, nee Tennant, that her grandson, John Ellis Aitken, b. India, 1896, to Robert & Caroline Aitken, in Bombay, was, as I thought, sent as a small child, to live with his paternal grandparents, in West Linton, later Edinburgh.
Can you tell me please how young he was, when he was sent, or taken to Scotland, from India, to live? I know he is on the 1901 Census with his grandparents in West Linton, but don't know how long before this, he left India? 
Cheers
Danchaslyn
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MOE, Norway, Swaziland, and Zululand, South Africa
JORGENSON, Hole, Ringerike, Buskurud, Norway
AITKEN, Scotland, England, India, Island of St Helena, South Africa
LOBB, India and London
WALSH, India and England
SHORT, Yorkshire, England, Island of St Helena
BATEMAN, Island of St Helena, U.S.A.
YUILL, U.S.A.
FIRTH, Yorkshire, Engand
LIPTROT, various counties of England
SMITH, various counties of England
LYNCH, Yorkshire, England, Rhodesia and South Africa
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Danchaslyn
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Per kind courtesy of baitken:
ELIZABETH AITKEN, daughter of John & Grace Aitken, b. 3 August, 1865, left West Linton, and the drapers shop, after the death of her mother, Grace, and she and her father, John, went to live in Edinburgh.
Margmo1 recalls, as a child, shopping in the same shop, with her mother, which was now run by Mrs Polly MacPherson, her husband, son and sister-in-law.
9 Deansfoot Road, still stands to-day and is a bookshop.
Cheers
Danchaslyn
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MOE, Norway, Swaziland, and Zululand, South Africa
JORGENSON, Hole, Ringerike, Buskurud, Norway
AITKEN, Scotland, England, India, Island of St Helena, South Africa
LOBB, India and London
WALSH, India and England
SHORT, Yorkshire, England, Island of St Helena
BATEMAN, Island of St Helena, U.S.A.
YUILL, U.S.A.
FIRTH, Yorkshire, Engand
LIPTROT, various counties of England
SMITH, various counties of England
LYNCH, Yorkshire, England, Rhodesia and South Africa
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Danchaslyn
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Posts: 596
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Very kindly from baitken:
The third child of Robert and Caroline Aitken, (of Bombay, India), after John Ellis and Margery Grace, was born in West Linton (not India!), on 9 August, 1899.
Robert Gordon Aitken, another grandson for John & Grace Aitken of West Linton.
Robert G. Aitken m. (1) Margaret Carfrae 19 April, 1923
(2) Irmintraude Adelheide Deutscher 2 July 1937
(3) Margaret Turnbull Kyle Stoddart 23 October, 1948
All Edinburgh
No children
Robert Gordon Aitken took his own life 14 September, 1953, Edinburgh.
Cheers
Danchaslyn
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MOE, Norway, Swaziland, and Zululand, South Africa
JORGENSON, Hole, Ringerike, Buskurud, Norway
AITKEN, Scotland, England, India, Island of St Helena, South Africa
LOBB, India and London
WALSH, India and England
SHORT, Yorkshire, England, Island of St Helena
BATEMAN, Island of St Helena, U.S.A.
YUILL, U.S.A.
FIRTH, Yorkshire, Engand
LIPTROT, various counties of England
SMITH, various counties of England
LYNCH, Yorkshire, England, Rhodesia and South Africa
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