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Topic: Grace AITKEN, nee Tennant, Edinburgh (Read 2633 times)
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Danchaslyn
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Hello Huntersjoy
Wishing you the very best of luck in that "Baitken" hopefully will know who you are looking for........................ 
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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baitken
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Hi Huntersjoy & Danchaslyn,
Sorry I have been out of touch for a while, but I've had a couple of bad days. Happens every so often, and all I can do is lie down till I get my breath back!! Hope to have it all sorted in about a month or so, fingers crossed.
I'm still trying to get my head round all this new info, and I think I'll start by setting out our Aitken tree as I know it. This at least will be a basis from which to work.
Answers. Sorry Huntersjoy, your Elizabeth doesn't come into my lot. Keep looking.
Danchaslyn. Photos, the oldest you have seen, at least of the Aitkens. I have older ones of the Kiddles, but thay are not appropriate at the moment. I have one sister, 5 years younger than me.
I see a lot of comment on GRACE TENNANT. Let me tell you what I know. Her father was ROBERT TENNANT and her mother MARGARET RIDDELL, although they were never married. Confimation details if you want them. Robert's mother was GRACE SANDERSON, which also fits well.
In the 1841 census of West Linton there is also a record of a GRACE TENNANT, b.1811, aged 30 years of independant means,, which fits in very well with known info. She also has three children, John (9), Elizabeth (7), and Margaret (5), but I don't know where they came from!!
Lastly for the moment, some info about ELIZABETH AITKEN, sister to SIR ROBERT. She lived with John & Grace as their draper's assistant in West Linton. Young JOHN AITKEN, b 1896, was left with them to go to school at West Linton. When young John left school there in 1906 he went to Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. The family also moved up there, 13 Merchiston Crescent, until Grace died on 16 Oct 1910, when Old John and Elizabeth moved to 23 Findhorn Place where she was the dutiful daughter.
Old John died 13 March 1913 and Elizabeth moved to 3 Falcon Gardens. John joined the army in 1914 (Sappers & Miners) and always went home on leave to Aunt Liz. He was demobbed in 1920 and went out to India to start his career in the Bank.
Elizabeth was now free for the first time in her life! On 10 Sept 1920, at the age of 55, she set sail for Canada on the Corsican to be a Housekeeper. No further details yet. She came home on holiday to St.Ives (no other family) in 1927, and returned 0n 1 June 1927 to Canada on the Athenia to Owen Sound, Ontario.
She returned again in the Summer of 1932, and I remember her visit well. My impression is of a rather tall and dour Scottish lady who had a liking for tweeds and a penchant for cloche hats, which didn't do much for her!! Heart of gold.
She went back on 24 Sept 1932 to live at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and died 19 Dec 1943 at Medicine Hat, Alberta, and was interred in Maple Leaf Cemetry.
Hope this is of interest and not too much at one go. I do have some photos when I can look them out. More later.
All the best, Bob
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Danchaslyn
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Well, Bob, thank you, all that you have posted to-day is so interesting! 
I'm so sorry that you have not been well again, hang in there, you'll soon be better after your 'procedure', then "weech" and ourselves and any other RC's Aitken connections can all get together and celebrate!
Firstly, so glad you told so much of "Aunt Izzy", as my late mother used to call Elizabeth Aitken!
She to, said that she was a very prim and proper, dour, Scottish lady and that the poor woman had been used her whole life, by her family as the archtypical spinster daughter in the household, to take care of the parents etc etc. 
So, it would seem, that even when she went to Canada, she still worked in the same capacity! 
I've been trying to remember, do you know if she ever went out to South Africa to visit her brother Thomas and her nieces and nephews there, or are my mother's impression of her, gained during my mother's many visits during the years to the UK? 
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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Richard Aitken is on the Ethiopia leaving Glasgow on the 8th April 1891 for New York more to follow.
Hello SaxonW
I've 'lost' my Richard Aitken, born 12 May, 1874 at West Linton, Peebleshire, Scotland (youngest son of Grace Aitken, nee Tennant).
Please will you confirm for me, that the Richard Aitken you mentioned above, is the Richard Aitken of West Linton?
That is, he obviously would have been almost 20 years old, on this trip of the Ethiopia?
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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Per kind courtesy of baitken:
Sir Robert returned to London on 28 October, 1921 on the "Naldeera", he retired in 1923.
He returned to India, to attend the wedding of one of his sons, John Ellis Aitken, to Norah Kiddle, on 22 November, 1923.
He returned to London, where he died on 18 April, 1924.
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
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Per kind courtesy of baitken:
Third child of Robert & Caroline Aitken, grandson of John & Grace Aitken...
Robert Gordon Aitken, b. 9 August, 1899, West Linton
m. 1. Margaret Carfrae 19 April, 1923
2. Irmintraude Adelheide Deutscher 2 July 1937
3. Margaret Turnbull Kyle Stoddart 23 October, 1948
All Edinburgh
Robert Gordon Aitken died 14 September 1953 (he took his own life)
Edinburgh
No known children
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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Richard Aitken is on the Ethiopia leaving Glasgow on the 8th April 1891 for New York more to follow.
Hello SaxonW I've 'lost' my Richard Aitken, born 12 May, 1874 at West Linton, Peebleshire, Scotland (youngest son of Grace Aitken, nee Tennant). Please will you confirm for me, that the Richard Aitken you mentioned above, is the Richard Aitken of West Linton? That is, he obviously would have been almost 20 years old, on this trip of the Ethiopia? Cheers Danchaslyn
RICHARD AITKEN, known as Dick Aitken, it has been confirmed, emigrated to Johannesbugh, South Africa, sometime between 1891-1901.
Would welcome help please witha a shipping passenger list lookup please as to when he left the UK, and how, for South Africa?
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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