death lookup - william aitken

[Gadget]

The Scotland People's site for deaths after 1854:

www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk


I've had a quick look and can't find a suitable one so she might have died before 1855.

I'm sorry that I can't help any more. Deaths/burials before 1855 are tricky but you seem to be lucky -

The Central Scotland Family History Society covers Stirlingshire:

http://www.csfhs.org.uk/


I see that the have a pre-1855 Burial Index for Falkirk costing £8.20:

http://www.csfhs.org.uk/publications.htm



Regards

Gadget

[Gadget]

I know that one of our members, apanderson, does have quite a stock of burial records/MI for Stirling. I've PMed her, drawing her attention to this thread.


Regards

Gadget

[bowes]

thank you so much.

Regards
Jackie

[apanderson]

Hi Jackie,

Got Gadget's PM and had a look through the published pre-1855 MI Book for East Stirlingshire but alas, no William (or Henrietta) Aitkens. This doesn't mean they won't have been buried in one of the 5 Falkirk Churchyards, just that there's no stone.

You said in the first message in this thread that you had a note of 5 of their children. Do you have any of their dates of death? The reason I ask is that it's not unusual to find parents listed on children's stones, especially if the parents never had a stone, or even if they had, it seems sometimes to be a case of cramming as many names on to a more recent stone as possible! I have no idea why this was the practice but I've found dozens of these types of stone.

It might be an idea to try and expand your information on each of their children - who they married, where they moved to etc., and somewhere along the line, something just might turn up for their parents. If you've got the death certificates for them, it'll narrow down where they'd probably be buried and we could try taking it from there.

In general, the Cemeteries weren't established till aound the 1880's so if any of the children survived till then, even better, as the Cemetery Records Office will more than likely have all the info needed to find them.

Sorry I'm not much of a help at this point but it's the best way forward I can think of for the time being.

Anne

[bowes]

thanks for your advice.

Can I ask for a lookup on this post?  If so, can someone please do a lookup for me in 1861, 1871 census for the following children of William and Henrietta Aitken:

Thomas Hamilton Aitken B26-7-1821 Falkirk
Margaret Douglas Aitken B20-9-1822 Falkirk (marr 1844 to John Petrie Stevenson)
Agnes Aitken B1824 Falkirk (marr John Allan 1840 Falkirk)
Helen Scrimgeour Aitken B11-6-1827 Falkirk (marr Robert Stevenson 1847)
Thomas Alexander Aitken B1830 Falkirk (Have his 1871) (marr to Jane Sutherland Murray in 1862 Tradeston)

Kind regards
Jackie

[apanderson]

Sorry Jackie, I only have access to the 1881 Cencus, hopefully someone else can help out there.

I had a wee look through the British Vital Records CD's (much the same as the IGI) and found children born to:

John Allan and Agnes Aitken
John b. 01.05.1840, c. 02.08.1840
Agnes b. 12.08.1842, c. 22.08.1842
Bethea b. 03.08.1844, c. no date given
William b. 07.10.1846, c. no date given
Thomas b. 25.09.1848, c. no date given
Robert b. 08.04.1853, c. 08.05.1853
All born in Falkirk

Robert Stevenson and Helen Scrymegour Aitken
Helen Scrymegour Aitken b. 29.03.1850, c. no date given
William b. 30.03.1852, c. no date given
Henrietta b. 03.09.1853, c. no date given
All born Glasgow

I couldn't find anything for Thomas Hamilton Aitken or Margaret Douglas Aitken (Petrie).

Do you think there could have been a connection between Margaret's husband John Petrie Stevenson and Henrietta Petrie?

All William Aitkens born in Falkirk around the time 'your' William would have been born
William b. 01.04.1797, c 09.04.1797 to Robert Aitken and Elizabeth Hill
William b. 11.03.1801, c.22.03.1801 to Mark Aitken and Agnes Paterson - this couple had a stone in Falkirk Parish Churchyard
William b. 23.09.1801, c. 04.10.1801 to Adam Aitken and Catharine Gibson
(Falkirk Parish Churchyard was cleared and landscaped and there are no longer any stones)

Henrietta could have moved in with one of her children after William died so could be anywhere!

Anne

[Gadget]

As I'm off for a while, could I just say that it is likely that the first Thomas, b. 1821 died in infancy.


Gadget

[andrew shanks]

Just for clarification - the Agnes Aitken that married John Allan in 1840 was born 12 Apr 1819 at Falkirk.  She was the daughter of John Aitken and Agnes Waddell - not William and Henrietta Aitken as stated below. 

If anyone wishes to discuss this line in more detail please pm me.

 

[Gadget]

That's very useful information, coonwarra 

Jackie - from where did you get the details of William and Henrietta's children's marrriages?


Gadget