AITKEN family, River View, St Ives, Huntingdonshire

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Laurina

I wonder if Jack Kiddle, four years after the St Ives newsletter you linked me to, was published, is still riding his bicycle around St Ives?!!   

Also, as you say, fascinating about the Kiddle Coaches!   

Please, when you do visit there in the autumn, will you try to find out if any of Kiddles are still around in St Ives, despite selling off the coach company please?   

Cheers

Danchslyn

 

[Laurina]

It was Eric, riding his bike.... deaths aren't online at this time unfortunately.
I'll PM you an address I found.

Laurina

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Laurina

The gap,  in your listing of Mayors of the Borough of St Ives, Laurina, between Edward Kiddle, and Geoffrey Kiddle, from 1941 - 1952, where there isn't 'a Kiddle as Mayor, could be explained by what is obviously a family tradition by then, that the patriarch becomes mayor, could be explained by the death of his son, Sgt Robert Kiddle killed in action, during 1915, age 20.    

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Sorry Laurina

Getting tired..........of course it was Eric, and not Jack, riding the bicycle!!!!   

Will check out P.M's now.........

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Laurina]

Could well be .... maybe you should trace the Kiddle's too

Laurina

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Laurina

Would love to trace the Kiddles as well and hoping that weech returns ASAP, so we also can go on the journey of the Lobb Family in India, and before that, where they were in the UK?   

Afterall, Norah Jean Aitken, nee Kiddle's mother-in-law, was born Caroline Lobb of Bengal, in India!   

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Laurina]

The Kiddle's seem to have had their furniture business in Bridge Street, St Ives going back to the 1841 census

Laurina

[weech]

My second message! The India Offce Records at the Brirish Library in London says that you read more on Robert Aitken in Who was Who, Volume II page 11

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello

Many grateful thanks to Laurina for her exceptional help with details of the Kiddle Family of St Ives.  Much appreciated!      

Can anyone please help and post, when and where it was, that Norah Jean Kiddle married John Ellis Aitken?    

Did the marriage possibly take place in St Ives, or in Bombay, India, the birthplace and workplace of John Ellis Aitken, although he and his younger sister, Marjory Grace Aitken, did at times, live with their grandparents, John and Grace Aitken, in West Linton, Peebles-Shire, Scotland.  

Cheers

Danchaslyn