AITKEN family, River View, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

[carol8353]

The Dec 1899,doesn't relate to the exact month of december,but to the quarter ending 31st December...ie any birth during Oct,Nov or Dec.

Carol

[carol8353]

Norah sailed out to Bombay in 1923 on a ship called the MARGHA.

Name: Miss Norah KIDDLE 
Date of departure: 26 October 1923   
Port of departure: London   
Passenger destination port: Bombay, India 

and blow me guess what her address was at that time 

Yep River View St Ives Hunts.

Carol

[carol8353]

They also gave that same address when sailing out to Bombay on 25 February 1927 as Mr and Mrs John Ellis Aitken.Strangely enough on the same ship-the Margha.

Also travelling with them was Robert Tennant Aitken.No address by his name.

John was 31 and a banker,Norah 27 and Robert 2 and a splodge,maybe an 8?
He has no job listed.Intended place of future abode -  India.

Hope that helps.

Carol

Edited to add that Robert Tennannt above was a child age 2,and the splodge was a crossing out!

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi Carol8353   .................Carol

Wow, that is all so interesting!    

So, no more Kiddles left by 2002 in the area.  Oh and thank you for explaining about Norah being born in I suppose the fourth quarter.

8 !!!!!    

Perhaps the St Ives, River View address is John Ellis Aitken's but he only got it after the 1911 Census, to keep his family in when they weren't in India?!    

Also, how does little 11 year old Norah Kiddle in 1911, get to meet and marry John Ellis Aitken, a successful banker of Bombay, India?      And, where did they meet and marry??  

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi Carol8353

My goodness, again, how/why, a single English lady, of only 24, as she was b.1899, sails out alone to Bombay, India?!!!!

And, goodness again!!!! the River View address, do you think the whole Kiddle family could have been there then?   

Wonder if she went to meet John Ellis Aitken, as if she had already met him in England, or if she met him in India.     

It certainly is looking like they may have married in Bombay?  Also, surely in those days, age 24 someone would have been quite old, and still not married, even, if about to be married?   

Just thought of something, I wonder if he was on the same ship in 1923??!!!!   

cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[carol8353]

I really must go to bed soon!!!

NO Aitken is coming up as sailing on that ship in 1923.

Because they are listed alphabetically,you can't tell if she sailed with any other married sister or a girlfriend- maybe she too worked at the bank?

My gran was 24 when she marrried in 1923...on easter Sunday in fact 

And yes they must have married abroad as she sure isn't on any full index between 1923 and 1927.

night night

Carol

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi Carol

Somewhere, I have a note that they had a daughter, Elizabeth, b, I think, 1931, as well as Robert Tennant, their son.

So, we know that Norah Kiddle married John Ellis Aitken, sometime between, 1923 - 1927, or at least before 1927, as Robert has been born by then.

Oh, just got your new reply and my partner is saying bedtime, bedtime..........we have family for a barbecue to-morrow, early!!!!     

Thank you so very, very much, what a joy to have everything you've told me.   

So, your Gran was married the same age and this weekend!   

Thank you for telling me that Norah and John Ellis Aitken married abroad.

Can't wait for Bedfordshireboy to catch up with all this!!   

Night night

Danchaslyn

 

[carol8353]

I have found that Norah and the kids sailed back to Bombay again on 15 October 1930 traveling on the CASTALIA from Liverpool.

Norah Aitken 30 housewife
Robert T Aitken 5
Elizabeth Aitken 5 months

The address given was River View St Ives.
I am assuming that's where her parents lived?

Carol

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi Carol8353  ..................Carol

Couldn't resist a quick look before the family arrive this morning!!!     

And yipppeeee, some more info, thank you.    I suppose it was usual for Colonial wives and their kids to travel back alone to their home countries from time to time?   

Think you must be right, that possibly "River view", St Ives is the Kiddle Family home?   

I know that John Ellis Aitken's parents eventually returned to the UK for good.  When they died, (the father Robert first, followed by quite a few years later, by his wife) their obituaries appeared in the Times of London.   

I'm sure John Ellis and Norah Jean Aitken and their children, must eventually have also returned to the UK for good, so, if only we could find their last passenger shipping list trip from possibly, Bombay, to UK.   

And, then, as my family think, that they went on to settle in Scotland somewhere?   

We've got the most gorgeous, sunny day for a barbecue here in the Highlands!   

Cheers

Danchaslyn