Grace AITKEN, nee Tennant, Edinburgh

[Danchaslyn]

 

Per kind courtesy of baitken:

Sir Robert returned to London on 28 October, 1921 on the "Naldeera", he retired in 1923.

He returned to India, to attend the wedding of one of his sons, John Ellis Aitken, to Norah Kiddle, on 22 November, 1923.

He returned to London, where he died on 18 April, 1924.

Cheers

Danchaslyn

[Danchaslyn]

 

Per kind courtesy of baitken:

Third child of Robert & Caroline Aitken, grandson of John & Grace Aitken...

Robert Gordon Aitken, b. 9 August, 1899,  West Linton

m.  1.   Margaret Carfrae  19 April, 1923

      2.  Irmintraude Adelheide Deutscher  2 July 1937

      3.  Margaret Turnbull Kyle Stoddart   23 October, 1948

      All Edinburgh

Robert Gordon Aitken died 14 September 1953 (he took his own life)

                                           Edinburgh

No known children

Cheers

Danchaslyn

[Danchaslyn]

Richard Aitken is on the  Ethiopia leaving Glasgow on the 8th April 1891 for New York more to follow.

Hello SaxonW

I've  'lost'  my Richard Aitken, born 12 May, 1874 at West Linton, Peebleshire, Scotland  (youngest son of Grace Aitken, nee Tennant).

Please will you confirm for me, that the Richard Aitken you mentioned above, is the Richard Aitken of West Linton?   

That is, he obviously would have been almost 20 years old, on this trip of the Ethiopia?

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

RICHARD AITKEN, known as Dick Aitken, it has been confirmed, emigrated to Johannesbugh, South Africa, sometime between 1891-1901.

Would welcome help please witha a shipping passenger list lookup please as to when he left the UK, and how, for South Africa?

Cheers

Danchaslyn

 

[ThornC]

Hello,
 
  I am late joining this discussion, and hope that the contributors are still active in RootsChat. The information shared here has shown me a lot about my family.

  John Aitken (b. 1861) is my great-grandfather. From my research, he arrived in the US April 1885, married Mary Doherty in 1866 and settled in the Bronx NY. John was a carpenter. Between 1887 and 1904 they had 6 children (John, Robert, Grace, Thomas, George and finally in 1904 my maternal grandmother Elizabeth). He died in December 1925 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx along with Mary who passed in 1944.

  If I can be of any assistance looking up info on the NY Aitkens, I'd be happy to do so.

  Regarding my 2nd great grandfather John Aitken (b.1826), this discussion has shown he had 2 children with Janet Bain, who then died in childbirth in 1857 with their third child John who also died at birth. Then John has 3 children with Grace Tennant (John, Robert and Elizabeth) before marrying her in 1867. This seems odd..  Does anyone have details around this period? After they are married they have Thomas and Richard.

  Grace Tennant seems a mystery. Considering the full history of the Tennant/Sanderson families (I have crossed Ancestry trees detailing those families back hundreds of years), I find so little information about Grace's early life. Any insights into my 2nd great grandmother would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you all again for sharing your knowledge of the Aitken clan.

Thom C