AITKEN family, River View, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

[carol8353]

There is some extra info on this thread  about this family.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=370842.new;topicseen#new

To find all your threads Danchaslyn,just click on your name in blue to the left of the page and then you will see the second line which says Show the last posts of this RootsChatter. Click on that and you can scroll through past posts.
Or better still (as David said  ) don't post the same thing on too many threads at the same time.

Carol

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Bedfordshireboy

David

Thank you so much, you have really come up trumps about Robert Aitken and his wife, for which I am very grateful.  The links are very interesting and have answered some of my long unanswered questions!   

The bit about the banks merging is pertinent, especially as Robert retired from the Imperial Bank of India, in the position of Managing Governor, at a youngish age, but I don't know when, but am wondering if this might perhaps have been 'forced' on him by the ending of the British Raj?!   

Afterall, we know from his Times obituary that he died, aged 60, in London, i.e.  1923.

Or, perhaps, his son, John Ellis Aitken took over from him?   

I will certainly take your advice on at least two points, i.e. to try to find the deaths of John Ellis Aitken and Norah Jean Aitken, and to work backwards........................and to try to stick to one thread at a time!

Its such a large family that I thought trying to stick to one generation was ok, but............

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Carol8353

Hello Carol

Thank you so much for alerting me about the new reply about Robert Aitken's inlaws' marriage, especially as I have been wanting to know if this family were already established in India, and now I can see, they were from another area.

I feel really foolish saying this, but my name doesn't come up in blue on the side of the page...........but, I'm really grateful for you telling me what to do, should it do so in the future.  Again, when one of my family visit, I'll ask them to look into it!   

Also, advice heeded, just like David said as well...............

Carol, would you perhaps know how to start to find details on the deaths of folk, possibly in Scotland?     Would you have to know the region in which they died?   

Cheers

Danchaslyn
 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Aaaahhhhhhh Carol

No,       how silly can I be!!!!!

As I posted I realised that 'my name in blue' is to the left of my posts and not at the top or sides of the whole page as I was looking at!!!!!         

Enough said!!

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[carol8353]

The only way you're going to get deaths in Scotland is by logging on to the pay per view site http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

Unless you're near enough to the Genral Record Office in Edinburgh to call in there in person.

Glad you found your name to take you to your previous postings

Carol

[bedfordshire boy]

If Robert died in London aged 60 in 1923 it sounds as though retirement was forced on him by ill health, or even he died in harness, rather than the British Raj which didn't end until 1947. I wouldn't have thought that the top job in an Indian bank was hereditary, particularly when John was only 27 when his father died

In case John and Norah died in England you need to trawl through the GRO indexes quarter by quarter, which you can do on Ancestry.com if you have a subscription - if not you could consider a trial subscription.

David

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hi Carol

Thank you for the link and what a good excuse for a trip to Edinburgh!     

Want to go look round the graveyards round West Linton, Kirkurd, Torphichen etc anyway....so will have to plan for soonest.     

Have you or anyone had personal experience of the General Records Office in Edinburgh?

Is it something that is done fairly quickly, or do you wait hours and hours?   

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Bedfordshireboy

Hello David

Thank you and yes, I'd noticed that as Robert had died at such a relatively young age, that his banking career must have been over before usual retirement, or, possibly in those days, 'dying in harness', as many must have done!   

With regard to his son John Ellis Aitken, both, started out as bank clerks, his father, Robert, in a bank, I don't know which, in Scotland, when he was only 15 - 16.  As they were both bankers, I've wondered if John Ellis Aitken was in the same banks as his father and possibly followed in his footsteps?   

I looked through all the Viceroys of India, to see which one dubbed Robert in 1918 and it was surprising to see how many men have held that position!

I also read up quite a bit about political conditions round about 1918 - 47, in India, and there were many upheavals, battles being fought, so perhaps, also, living conditions were not quite so cushy as they might previously have been.

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

You certainly have a point that possibly John Ellis and Norah Jean Aitken didn't necessarily die in Scotland, or, indeed, ever end up living in Scotland?   

[weech]

My paternal grandmother, Ellen Lobb, was the younger sister of Lady Caroline Aitken. Ellen was born in India about 1877 but went to a boarding school in St.Neots in Huntingdonshire. I have too much information to include in a simple reply but have photgraphs of their mother, Sophia, and will be happy to provide further info. I am new to this website and am still trying to find my way around!