AITKEN family, River View, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

[carol8353]

You're brave (or daft  ) a barbecue at Easter in Scotland 

Have a good day.

Carol

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi Carol

Must be a bit of both.....................

Can even see the snow further up above us!!!!  But, SO warm, out of the coolish breeze, next to a white wall of the house.   

Had a brill idea, will ask one of the youngster computer boffins visiting to-day, to please help me post links to you, from my other thread sites on RootsChat.  I had a quick read and found the bits about John Ellis Aitken and Fam, on a trip.........also trying still to find the bit about the parents' obituaries.   

Hee hee we tried to get a Salmon,...............no, not from the river, but from the nearest supermarket, 12 miles away, as a nice touch on the barbie, but,  , they sold out!

Partner gone down the track to meet family and ferry them up as they won't drive their cars on our rough track, or the 5 ml single track, full of potholes public road!   

So, will say 'bye' till later, thanks again

Danchaslyn
 

[carol8353]

Is this the link you wanted me to see?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,370337.msg2485619.html#msg2485619

Carol

[bedfordshire boy]

See http://www.roll-of-honour.org/Huntingdonshire/Fenstanton.html for the death of one of Norah's brothers in WWI. The Kiddle's address was River View

See also Kellys Directory 1918 at http://www.fenstanton-village.co.uk/kellys_1918.php where Norah's father is listed at River View.

It looks to me as though this was definitely the Kiddle family home.

David

[Danchaslyn]

 

Bedfordshireboy

Hello David

The info you find is just amazing!  Thank you so much   

You must be absolutely right that "River View" was the Kiddle family home.  Is Fenstanton still a suburb of St Ives to-day?   

How it brings it all to life to be able to take a tiny peek into their village life in 1918, and how tragic, along with so many others, that Norah's brother, Sgt Robert Kiddle, was killed alongside so many others, during WW1, and, at such a young age!   

I just wish I could find out, where in Scotland, John Ellis and Norah Jean Aitken and their children went to live, after their last, (whenever it was?) return, from Bombay, India??   

Thank you, David

Danchaslyn
 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Carol8353

Hello Carol

Is this the link you wanted me to see?

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,370337.msg2485619.html#msg2485619

Carol

Yes, you're showing off now....................you can do the links, and I can't,..................yet!   

Anyway, yesterday, I couldn't get any of the computer boffs to come into the house, away from the great sunshine    to help me do ALL the links to you.....................and, the main person whom I knew would help me, decided to stay home to watch some sport, or other on Sky TV  (and what a great Easter barbecue he missed to!!).   

So, I'm still none the wiser yet how to do it, but will try send you the others, when next a pc wizard visits!   

Hasn't Bedfordshireboy been so clever?!  I just love these little insights into how their lives were, all those years ago.   

As I've said, just wish we could find out where in Scotland, the Aitken Family finally ended up living, after their final return from India? 

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[bedfordshire boy]

Nothing clever! Just google Kiddle St Ives and all sorts comes up including a Kiddle mayor of St Ives in 1901 (from memory), who is probably related. Kiddle isn't a very common name and my grandfather's sister married one in Herts, not far south of St Ives, but I haven't found a connection to Hunts

Fenstanton is a separate parish a couple of miles from St Ives

David

[Danchaslyn]

 

Bedfordshireboy

Hello David

You are to modest, I still think you have been very clever   

Who would have thought that you also have a 'Kiddle' in the family?!   

Thanks for telling me about Fenstanton being a separate parish.  I wish we knew if the "River View" property still stands, and is still a family home?   

Please tell me David, have you any advice how to find out where the Aitkens went to live, after returning from India?   

You see, I don't know where John Ellis Aitken's parents, Sir Robert and Lady Caroline Aitken settled, when they returned to the UK, to live, after he retired from his banking in India.  The only clue was info on one of their ship trips when they appear to stay in a London hotel, perhaps they lived in it, when they went to and fro?

So, I would have thought that possibly their son, John Ellis Aitken and Family, might have settled near to them, but definitely one shipping trip had them going onwards to 'Scotland', but where?   

But, perhaps the parents had left London by this time and settle in Scotland, in advance of them?  Afterall that is where they all originated from!   

So many questions.......................??

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[bedfordshire boy]

At http://www.archive.org/stream/countyfamiliesof591919walf/countyfamiliesof591919walf_djvu.txt there's the following bio in the 1919 edition

AITKEN, Sir Robert, Knt.— Cr. 1918.

Fourth son of John Aitken, Esq., of W. Linton, who d.
1913; b. 1863; m. 1894 Caroline Mary, dau. of the
late Theophilus Lobb, Esq., Public Works Department,
India. Sir Robert Aitken is Secretary and Treasurer
of the Bank of Bombay. — Kincllan, Malabar Hill,
Bombay, India ; Bycidla, and R. Bombay Yacht Clubs,
Bombay.

Details of his knighthood can be found in the London Gazette at http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30825/pages/9111. He was dubbed in India

I would look for the deaths of John and Norah to find out where they died, and then try to work backwards. But I have no experience in Scotland at all so can't give you advice there.

And stick to one thread at a time!

David

PS Bank of Bombay was merged with two other banks in 1921 to form the Imperial Bank of India