Grace AITKEN, nee Tennant, Edinburgh

[Danchaslyn]

 

Well, well, well, Robert, welcome to RootsChat and I can hardly imagine how you are feeling, having chanced on this topic!   

Firstly, you do indeed have family, myself and Weech are cousins of yours!    
There's also the possibility of quite a few other RootsChatters  ( I could name a few), who may be your family as well.

Are you in the UK?  Would love your email address, but this won't be possibly as per RC rules, until you have posted 3x, then we can Personal Message you, and you us.   

Yes, I'm aware of some of the inaccuracies and can hardly wait to exchange info.     

PLEASE, can you here and now, try and answer the one big mystery,........what happened to Sir Robert's youngest brother Richard, after he left Scotland, as bank clerk, maybe roundabout 1896?   

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Oh yes, Robert, in my excitement, forgot to say, good luck with your op!!!   

Also, would love photos of Sir Robert, who was my Great Uncle. His mother, Grace, obviously being my Great Grandmother, perhaps you could post them here until we can exchange addresses?   

I think I can guess who your parents are!!   

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Per very kind courtesy of "Weech":

   Dame Caroline Mary Sophia Aitken, d. 13 February, 1937 in Belgium,
   at St Andrews Hotel, Le Zoute Knocke-sur-Mer.

   She was formerly of 28 Oakwood Court, Kensington, Country of London.
   "Mamakaz", thank you, I remember you finding this address. 

   She was survived by her two children, John Ellis Aitken and Margery Grace
   Bleck, nee Aitken.

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[weech]

Caroline Aitken was a sister of Ellen Anne Lobb who was my paternal grandmother. So far my researches indicate that Caroline, your grandmother, was one of nine siblings being children of Theophilus Lobb and Sophia Virginia Gordon. I'm not sure how many survived into adulthood but the eldest was Ellis William Theophilus Lobb, born india 1868, died New York 1958. The youngest that I have found was Markland Barnett Lobb born 1888, died Glasgow 1942. I have photographs of Sophia, aged about 80, and a photograph from the Times of India of Marjorie, Robert & Caroline's daughter, at her wedding in Bombay. I also have  invitations addressed to another sister, Lillian, to the weddings of Edmunds Lobb's daughters in 1921 and 1925.
Weech

[baitken]

Oh this is wonderful news, to know someone is out there.
Not so good for Danchaslyn though as Richard is one of my lost ones, as is Thomas.
We lost then by the 1891 census.

Yes I am in the UK, South Coast, and happily retired.

Robert & Richard both started off life as banker's clerks in the Royal Bank of Scotland in West Linton. Robert was in india by 1885, but we found no sightings of Richard.

Photos, yes.  Just give me a while to get them sorted.

There were three children of Robert's marriage to Carry.  More details later.

I have the complete Lobb history as far as it concerns us, and more, as I had a lot of correspondence with Douglas Lobb, [20,000 Lobbs around the world] before he died.

I am so excited with our contacts.  Thank you all.  And thanks too for the good wishes.

Bob

[weech]

Bob

Good wishes from me also for your forthcoming op. My family returned to England in 1948 to Bedford and were there until my mother died in 2000. I think from reading the various Aitken sights on Roots that your father settled in Huntingdon, not far away.

Weech

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Baitken

Great to hear from you again and to know that you to are in the UK......one more post and you will be able to Personal Message both Weech and myself with your whereabouts!   

My surprise for you, is that Thomas is my Grandfather and I have quite a bit on him.  Try looking up for my threads in South Africa section of RC, also in Emigrants and Immigrants and you will find quite alot in RC, Scotland, Peebles-Shire as well.  (There are more!!).   

Richard, I think, went either to South Africa, or the USA/Canada,  (we have American cousins!), but, I also think he may have died in South Africa, during the 1917 'flu pandemic, but can find no records for him anywhere!   >:

I think one of Robert & Caroline's sons died as a child?

Wonderful for "Weech" that you have so much on the Lobb Family!   

Me to, so excited!          

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[baitken]

Hi all,

First two photos for you.  Granny Aitken is date unknown, but probably early thirties.

I'll have to investigate this business of personal messages, as you indicate I am now eligable.

More soon,     Bob

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Robert


Wow!!  Thank you so much, I never in my wildest dreams imagined I would actually get to see what Robert & Carry looked like!      thank you SO much!

Having a good day actually, as have had further news on Thomas Aitken, please view in RC, South African section, under my thread, Baptist Church Archives? 

Also, to go into Personal Messages, go to top of RootsChat page and next to your baitken name, click on the messages, then click on new message and so on.  I'll try to PM you now, so let me know if you get it ok, please?

Longing to know, how many siblings have you?

Cheers

Danchaslyn