Grace AITKEN, nee Tennant, Edinburgh

[saxonw.]

You can't see the original returns on Ancestry: It is almost certainly a workhouse  because of the mixed aged span. Unusual for someone some young to be  in an adult workhoue without other members of the family.  She must have been at the bottom end of the age range.  This is an idea about Edinburgh workhouses.

http://www.institutions.org.uk/workhouses/scotland/edinburgh.htm

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi akwaaba

My dial up internet is getting slower and slower...........Richard Aitken, b. 12/5/1874, son of John and Grace Aitken,  I haven't been able to find out anything about him, beyond that he became at bank clerk at age 16, possibly at Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, and then emigrated, but I don't know where???    

His older brother Robert,  banker, I know quite a bit about, and I'll post about him to-morrow, as internet to slow now, and also I'll post what I know about their brother Thomas.    

Their sister, Elizabeth, b. 3/8/1865,I would love to know about, have assumed in the past that she became a 'companion' to other members of the family?  

Have you any idea please, who the parents of John William Aitken and Jane Veitch are ?

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[merryhow]

Hi, 1841 census , Grace's Father - CONFECTIONER. Address The Royal Infirmary.
 
    Val

[saxonw.]

Richard Aitken is on the  Ethiopia leaving Glasgow on the 8th April 1891 for New York more to follow.

[Danchaslyn]

 

Saxonw

I haven't disappeared, just takes about 10 minutes to open each page at night, when its busy!!!      

Ok, so Grace Tennant, grows up in this 'place' with so many other people, if it is a workhouse, wonder if it still stands, and what its exact location is?

Can I astound you, and tell you that of her and John Aitken's  four children, the eldest, John, b. 13/5/1861, I know nothing about  (YET!!), and Elizabeth, his sister, ??, but Thomas, became Rev Thomas Aitken, Baptist Prison Chaplain on the Island of St Helena, then Gen Secretary or whatever they call it, of the Baptist Church, South Africa, and, wait for it....

Robert, her son, b. 11/5/1863, banker's clerk, at 16 yrs, Scotland,  (which bank please??), then Banker in India, glittering career, the extreme highlife, became Governor of Imperial Bank of India, etc etc, was knighted, so she was the mother of Sir Robert Aitken!!  

Check out my topics in Scotland, Peebles-Shire, and St Ives, Huntingdonshire, England, St, Ives, Cornwall, England, and Beginners etc etc, if you have a chance.    

Thanks for 'stews', we learn something every day.......    

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi Merryhow

Well Val, I would have loved my father to be a confectioner!!!!  Thanks for that.......is the Royal Infirmary a hospital, do you think??
 
Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[saxonw.]

Dan what name have you in St Ives Cornwall home of wreckers and smugglers ?(Oh that be my husband's family then)

[Danchaslyn]

 

saxonw

yes, yes, yes......................you have it,  Richard Aitken going to New York,  I'm sure of it!!!

As I've said to Mamakaz in the past, we suddenly have American cousins,  I know some of their surnames were Yuill  and also  Bateman.........have lost touch with them all completely, and when I still had living relatives who could tell me how come we had/have American cousins, I didn't bother to ask.  Silly me,    

Did Richard carry on his banking, I wonder?  

Cheers

Danchaslyn

P.S.  - haven't had a chance yet to check out the Edinburgh Institutions, if I go for a while, that is where I am!!      

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi saxonw

I think the Rootschatters locked my Cornwall, St Ives Topic, it was I think under John Ellis Aitken, St Ives? 

John Ellis Aitken, son of Sir Robert Aitken, also a banker in Bombay, India, went to and fro, First Class, (pampered devils!!!   ), by ship, obviously, and he always put his address, as River View, St Ives, so, again, silly me, I assumed, St Ives, Cornwall!   

But, nooooooo, St Ives, Huntindonshire, England!!   Where I later started a new topic for John Ellis and his wife Norah Jean Aitken.

cheers

Danchaslyn