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Canada / Re: Scott AITKEN (AITKIN) - Margaret JAMIESON
« on: Wednesday 14 December 11 05:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again J.J. and dollylee.
To be quite honest, I got the Jamieson name from information sent to me, likely about 13-15 years ago by a contact who had more information than I did, because I was a real newby at genealogy at the time.  Her husband is a descendant of a brother of Scott and Thomas.
I guess I just accepted it as Jamieson. 
dollylee is right about how the death registration lists mother (maiden name) as Margaret Jamieson. 
Now I have doubt about this.  Will investigate further for a different maiden surname for (Scott's) Margaret.
Could it be that seeing as the death registration was certified by David Fife, her brother-in-law, that he only knew her as a Jamieson and that Margaret was her mothers name, therefore gave the name that way?  There is no father's name mentioned on the registration.

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Canada / Re: Scott AITKEN (AITKIN) - Margaret JAMIESON
« on: Wednesday 14 December 11 02:10 GMT (UK)  »
Hi J.J.  Yes you are correct about an earlier post to do with this family.  The first post was to do with the possibility of the children listed in the 1891 Canadian Census being British Home Children.  This post is specifically trying to target their marriage date/record.  Thank you for posting a link.  It may ultimately help.
The photo of the grave marker I have is from Ullswater, Muskoka.  Strange though, there are no dates on the stone. 
Yes I am sure both Scott/Margaret and Thomas/Agnes were here in 1871.  Not sure when Thomas immigrated, but he married Agnes (Fife) in June 1850 in Peterborough County.  Her brother David and Thomas' sister Helen married the same time.  All three families ended up in Muskoka area, farming just down the road from each other.
All of Thomas/Agnes children were born in Allendale Mills, Otonabee, Peterborough area, not Scotland as you suggest.
Yes, I guess Thomas did come to live near Scott as you suggested.  In 1871 Thomas' family was still in Otonabee Twp, while Scott was in Muskoka, Watt Twp.
If you have access to the 1879 Watt Twp map, you see Thomas Sr just off of Dee Bank Rd, with Thomas Jr next and Scott next to him.  David as metioned above is next closest to the lake.  The Thomas Aitken on the lake is also from Shetland, perhaps a cousin that I haven't connected yet.
Anyway I'm off topic.  Stlll searching for marriage record for Scott and Margaret.

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Canada / Re: Scott AITKEN (AITKIN) - Margaret JAMIESON
« on: Tuesday 13 December 11 05:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you vbain and dollylee for your responses.  :)
I have the photo of a gravestone giving both of their names, Scott and Margaret.
The death registration for Margaret seems to be written up weirdly, in that she is listed as Mrs Scott Aitkin instead of Margaret Aitkin, which caused the LDS transcript to be Scott Aitkin.
I do not know her parentage, or rather have not investigated it.  Scott's mother was a Jamieson in the Shetlands, so it is quite likely there were other Jamieson families around.  I shall take a look at the Bayanne site to investigate further into the Jamieson's.
Dollylee, your mentioning Margaret's immigration as 1868, made me take another look at the 1901 census record and I had missed that previously.  For some reason I had her being born in Windermere, Ontario.  Ooops and thanks.
Speaking of 1901 Canadian Census, it mentions Scott as being born in 1823.  He was in fact born in 1824 according to the Papil, Burra, Shetland baptismal record.   
It just struck me, now that I know she immigrated, I wonder if they were married in the Shetlands and she didn't come over to Canada until he settled down from his sea faring ways.  Seems that happened in the late 1850's.  Hmmmm   :-\

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Canada / Scott AITKEN (AITKIN) - Margaret JAMIESON
« on: Monday 12 December 11 22:40 GMT (UK)  »
Having trouble finding a marriage record for Scott Aitken (Aitkin) to Margaret Jamieson, assumed married in Ontario.  He, born in Papil, Shetland (1824) and after some 20 years on the high seas and as a captain on a vessel in the Great Lakes, settled in the Windermere area of Ontario, close to his brother. 
I have searched LDS micro-films, Ancestry and taken a stab at Great Lakes nautical records to no avail.
Appears in Canadian Census 1871 (Aitkin), 1881 (Aitkin), with two "children", which I believe were British Home Children in 1891 (Atken) and 1901 (Aitkin) prior to his death in 1907.  All Census' are with spouse.
Death record and tombstone have spelling AITKEN.
Anyone out there have any other ideas?

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Identify House?
« on: Friday 17 June 11 03:36 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Sylvia
I'll give it a shot.
John

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Identify House?
« on: Friday 17 June 11 02:41 BST (UK)  »
   I'm taking a real long shot here to see if anyone can identify the attached house that is supposedly the house of a direct ancestor from Yorkshire.
   I have been trying to track down information on John PRUDHAM (1807-1889)who came to Canada from England in 1832.  I have made earlier inquiries as to his parentage on the Yorkshire East board, but now believe that it may have been Yorkshire North that he was from.  Hence my post here on this board now.
   It appears the spelling in England may have been PRUDOM, as we have identified an older sister Tamar and a half brother Mark of that spelling.
   Back to my original quiry  -  does anyone know of this house.  It was taken in 1959 or 1960 by an uncle who had travelled to England, but is now deceased.
   Of course I won't turn down any information on his parentage if anyone knows.
   Thanks for any assistance.   :) :)

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: John PRUDHAM 1807 - 1889
« on: Saturday 07 May 11 04:47 BST (UK)  »
Val, the John Pruddom of 1780 is too early.  We do know that he was born in 1807.
Thamar Pruddom of 1778 was mentioned by "I've Left" earlier on April 9 above.
We do know the Tamar was older than John, but we don't know by how much.
She apparently looked after John when their mother died about 1811, when John was only 4.  So I would guess perhaps she was perhaps at least 12 or 13 at that time to do that.  I would think if she were just over 30 in 1811 as the date above would indicate, she would have been off on her own.
Thanks for looking further.   :)

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: John PRUDHAM 1807 - 1889
« on: Saturday 07 May 11 02:14 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Bryan.  Sorry for the late response to your posts.  It's been a busy month.  You are right, Tamar (Thamar) birth in 1772/3 does seem a bit early.  Something will turn up somewhere.

Thanks Val, that baptism for Mark under a spelling I hadn't tried, does seem to fit.  Too bad it didn't include a fathers name.

Thanks again to you both.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: John PRUDHAM 1807 - 1889
« on: Saturday 09 April 11 03:18 BST (UK)  »
Jump right in anytime BryanHogarth.
I missed Mark in the '51 Census.  Perhaps the spelling of his surname was transcribed differently.  I'll have to check Ancestry in the new week at the library.
I am not familiar with the areas in England, so really flying by the seat of my pants when I mention an area there.  I just mention what the records show.
I believe that Mark was in Canada as a young man.  It was said he had "two purposes in coming, the first to preach and second to find a wife.  He failed at the later and was not that good at the former."  So her returned to England.
Other than a death record I can find nothing on Tamar although she is in the family stories.
Thanks for the response.  Anytime.

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