help to find John Aitken - Mary Illson

[weasel1]

Just went back through some of my saved files and I found Helen, George's daughter's wedding certificate and it shows George as a bootmaker and his wife Janet's maiden name as Hunter as well, so it looks like we may have the correct marriage for George and Janet

[ev]

i found the 1851 census on freeCEN website
in 1881 janet hunter age 60 and her son alfred hunter age 15 are visiting the married daughter mary ramsay(nee hunter) age 24

middle names(parents george hunter and janet hunter)(from the IGI)
alfred tulloch hunter born 18th oct. 1865 leith
james gale hunter born 19th nov. 1860 edinburgh parish

as Sancti has already noted the next step would be to find george hunter's
death cert.

looking at scotlandspeople website(and given that you have him on the 1891
census) i found -
george hunter death 1891 leith midlothian born c1820

perhaps you can check with your other sources to see if they have that 

ev

[weasel1]

EV
I'll  post to my other source and see what happens.  I will let you know.

[sancti]

This might be George in 1841

Alexander Jameson 30
Janet Jameson 30
Janet Jameson 3
Primrose Jameson 1
Alexander Mood 25
George Hunter 25 born Scotland occ Shoemaker J

Address: Cullers Close Alloa
 
 

[sancti]

Their son James was 4 months old on the 1861 census and if you view his birth on Scotlandspeople it will give his mothers maiden name

[grannysrock]

Hi(Cousin?) Weasel
George Hunter , bootmaker , born c.1819 Kirkcaldy and his wife  Janet Hunter were my great great great grandparents!
I have been trying for what seems like forever to prove that George was the son of George Hunter and Catherine Aitken . (His 1891 death cert has a different mother's name - Elizabeth Howie or maybe Hardie depending on what you make of the handwriting ).
The Gunn middle name probably comes from Agnes Hunter( an elder sister of your Helen and my gg grandfather James Gale Hunter)  who married David Robertson Gunn and moved to Argentina.

I have done a fair bit of research into the family and also the descendants of George Hunter m. 1.Catherine Aitken and 2. Mary Dow in the hope of matching them up ... if it's of any use to you let me know..

Sally

[Rufous Treecreeper]

A long shot replying to posts from 2011 but worth a try...

Recently I've been researching the George Hunter from Kirkcaldy who (possibly/probably?) married 1st Catherine Aitken and 2nd Mary Dow.

I have DNA matches that go back to George and Catherine's children. My unproven theory as yet, is that Catherine Aitken was the daughter of John Aitken and Mary Illson, and John Aitken is the brother of my ancestor Janet Aitken (daughter of James Aitken and Janet Brown) who married William Gibson.

Hopefully someone is out there still who may know about this   
Marlene