Hello Geowin
Your post No: 103 with details of both brothers, the elder John Ellis Aitken, and the younger, Robert Gordon Aitken, at school, together, in Edinburgh, is so interesting and quite priceless to have such family details. Thank you.
Also, that Robert Carfrae, brother of Robert Gordon's first wife, Margaret Carfrae, was with the two brothers, at the same school. Without firsthand family knowledge, one would never have known that!
Prior to both brothers' "high school days" at Merchiston, in Edinburgh, whilst staying with their Aunt Elizabeth Aitken, (their parents' living in India), they, with their sister Marjorie, had been raised, since very young, by their paternal grandparents, John and Grace Aitken, in West Linton, near Edinburgh.
All three siblings, did, I think, attend, the local primary school, in West Linton.