AITKEN family, River View, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Weech

Welcome, welcome welcome, not only to RootsChat, but to our search for the Aitkens!   

I am absolutely thrilled that you have appeared!      

For many, many years, my family and I have sought info, some, now deceased even travelling 6 000 miles and more, in the days before the www to visit graveyards, to try to trace relatives.   

I was at the stage where I was about to go searching for the Lobb Family!   

I will Personal Message you, also, please click on the blue messages at the top of this site.   

Please can you tell me asap how many siblings Caroline and Ellen Lobb had?   

And, their Dad, as Clerk of Works, in Bengal, I think, what did this job involve?   

And where were the Lobbs from in the UK?   

And when did they go to settle in India?   

I know we have so much to exchange, but these questions, I'm burning for answers!  (and all the rest!)........

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[carol8353]

Weech won't be able to send or receive personal messages till they have posted 3 times.......so carry on posting Weech.Just reply to this a couple of times and you're there 

[Danchaslyn]

Hello Again Carol

In my utter excitement,  I completly forgot that weech wouldn't be able to PM yet!!!   

Thanks for your reply and I can hardly wait for weech to tell us something else!   

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[mamakaz]

hi Dan, xxxx

ohhhh how cooolllll, welcome weech,

Dan you are sooooo lucky, im still waiting for any Plants to turn up, lol
 kaz, xxxx

[Laurina]

Hi all,

Don't know a great deal about this but ....

I lived in St Ives in the 1950's - 1970's. My father had a business there. As I remember, the Kiddle family were quite well off and owned a large furniture shop in St Ives - it was a family run affair. I could take you the place the shop was, it's no longer there.

I remember the Kiddle's had a house built on the lower road towards Fenstanton. As mentioned before it's a village about two miles from St Ives. I'm not sure what this house would have been called - unfortunately I live about 80 miles away from it now but do occasionally visit the area. It certainly wouldn't have been around in the early 1900's. I'll try and check it out when I next visit but it wont be before the autumn.

Laurina

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi Mamakaz

Thank you, yes, so cool.....................crossing fingers and toes and everything else for you, that another member of your Plant family will turn up on your site!   

Our joint search for Aitkens and all other associated families has been such a journey of discovery together, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart,  for all your wonderful support and help.   

You are a great gal!   

Cheers

Danchaslyn

    xxx

[Laurina]

Several Kiddle's were Mayors - http://www.stives-town.info/council/history/past_mayors_st_ives.asp

1901 George Kiddle - Borough of St Ives
1927 Edward Kiddle - Borough of St Ives  
1938 Edward Kiddle - Borough of St Ives
1939 Edward Kiddle - Borough of St Ives
1940 Edward Kiddle - Borough of St Ives
1941 Edward Kiddle -  Borough of St Ives
1952 Geoffrey Whetnall Kiddle - Borough of St Ives

This article mentions Eric Kiddle who ran the furniture shop - see section 'unsung hero'
http://www.goingtostives.info/News200609.htm

The Kiddles also ran a coach company -  http://www.kiddlescoaches.com/

Laurina

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Laurina

Thank you so much for your info and so wonderful to have a local flavour on this search.  

Not sure if you know already, but I and others posted some other Aitken/Kiddle info on a Thread I started by mistake in RC, England, Cornwall, St Ives, because before I knew better, I thought St Ives was the St Ives in Cornwall.

I would love you to be able to check out the Kiddle house in the autumn and let us know what you found?  Also, if "River View" does possibly still exist to-day?  

I'm still trying to discover if John Ellis and Norah Aitken and Family, eventually left India for good?  

And, if so, did they return permanently to the UK, and if so, to where?  

Any help would be so gratefully received, especially as I have dial up internet only and find it incredibly difficult and sometimes impossible to download stuff, such as shipping lists etc.  

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Laurina

Again, thank you  SO  much, and how amazing that so many of the Kiddle Family were Mayors! 

Thank you to for the link to the furniture shop.......good on you finding it!   

I would be absolutely fascinated to know the connection, as to how, John Ellis Aitken, a banker in India with his father, met and married Norah Jean Kiddle of St Ives?   

Also, I've found out which banks John Ellis Aitken's father was with in India, but not which bank, if different to the ones his father, Sir Robert Aitken, was with in India, John Ellis was with?   

Cheers

Danchaslyn