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

 

Hello again weech, welcome back

Please will you try to answer my questions from my post above...........I'm longing for the answers.

Also, weech, thank you for your post about Robert Aitken,.................

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[weech]

My third message! I have obtined a copy of the marriage certificate of Theophils Lobb and Sophoa Virginia Gordon from the India Records office of the British Library. They were married in Rawal Pindee in the North West provinces, that would be near the Khyber Pass, in 1867. They were then living in Peshawar. WIll reply in length by email shortly.

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello weech

That's wonderful your third message, now you can receive and send Personal Messages.  What I don't know, if the one that I sent you yesterday, if you will have got it now, or if it was lost, because you hadn't yet posted 3x?  Please let me know if you have it, if not, I'll send it again.   

Also, your India Records Office of the British Library is turning up trumps for you, well done!      

So, Theolophilis and Sophia's marriage certainly took place in far flung regions of India, and I assume this was because of his Clerk of Works job?   

So, Sophia was from a Gordon family, I wonder if they were Scottish?   

Can't wait to receive your email...........

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Laurina]

The Kiddle Household in the 1911 Census - You'll have to pay to view it and check all the children belong to the family. I thought Decima was an interesting name - maybe a 10th child but unfortunately I can only find 9! If you paid too view you might see if other children had died.

Robert Kiddle b.1895 is with this family in 1901- don't know where he disappeared too - that makes 10 children


KIDDLE   EDWARD            M   1870                        41      St Ives   
KIDDLE   ELEANOR OSBOURNE      F   1871      40      St Ives
KIDDLE   WINIFRED OSBOURNE    F   1894      17      St Ives
KIDDLE   CHARLES EDWARD         M    1897      14      St Ives   
KIDDLE   HAROLD VINCENT         M   1899      12      St Ives   
KIDDLE    NORAH              F     1900                     11       St Ives
KIDDLE   GEORGE            M   1902        9      St Ives
KIDDLE   GEOFFREY WHITTNALL   M   1904         7      St Ives   
KIDDLE   ENA                                F   1907          4      St Ives   
KIDDLE   JOHN EDWARD         M   1909        2      St Ives
KIDDLE   DECIMA            F   1911        3 Months   St Ives

Opps I didn't line them up very well, sorry.

Laurina

[Laurina]

Check out the phone books . . . I've looked at a few years

R Kiddle and Son are in the 1911 Phone book - Furnisher removals St Ives

Still there in 1923 - R Kiddle & Son - Removal, Haulage Contractors - St Ives

Still there in 1932 - Removals

Still there in 1946 - Removals

There in 1957-1975 - Furniture, Removal & Storage at Bridge Street, St Ives
Also Kiddle's Coaches - Luxury Coach Hire - 10 East Street, St Ives

1975 Kiddle's Taxi's 10 East Street + several Kiddle private numbers in area

1984 All still there

Geoffrey W Kiddle appears in the phone book between 1951-1978

Laurina


Laurina

[Danchaslyn]

SGT ROBERT KIDDLE

Sergeant 952, 1/7th (City of London Battalion, London Regiment.

Killed in action, 25 September, 1915, age 20.  Born, resident, enlisted St Ives.  Son of Edward and Eleanor o. Kiddle, River View, St Ives, formerly 44, 5th Battalion, Bedford T.F. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Pa de Calais, France

Danchaslyn

[Laurina]

That's brilliant, atleast you've found River View - I've been through all the 1901 Census and can't find this house. Bridge Street, where the Kiddle's had their business leads up to the river, but I wouldn't have thought you could view it from that property.

Laurina

[Danchaslyn]

Hi Laurina

Yes, hi and thanks for both your previous posts.........so hooping that when you return to St Ives in the autumn that you will be able to find River View!!!   

At least I know now that it wasn't a house that John Ellis Aitken bought, it was definitely a Kiddle house!   

With regard to Decima, yes,  what an unusual name and I had such a    as I imagine its something like short for Decimal,  i.e.  10!!!!!        

Cheers
Danchaslyn

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello All

Please check out:

  http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,370853.msg2453724.html#msg2452724

Cheers

Danchaslyn

Edited by Danchaslyn, thanks to Carol's advice, hope this link works now?