Hello Liz
Anne Scott Aitken, daughter of Alexander Aitken, blacksmith, Dunedin and Elizabeth Aitken, married Joseph Outram on 18 August 1882 in Royal Terrace, Dunedin.
Joseph and Anne Outram's daughter Olive Hazel Outram married John Longstaff Baines on 29 December 1922 at Caversham Baptist Church, Dunedin. They were the aunt and uncle of my mother, so are my great aunt and great uncle.
The Outram, Aitken and Baines family have been, and still are being researched by a number of people. Myself and John Baines (grandson of Olive Hazel Outram and John Longstaff Baines) in particular.
I live in Dunedin, NZ. Whereabouts are you? We should probably make contact off the list.
If you go onto
http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries_search, or more specifically,
http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries_search?recordid=102718&type=Burial you will see that
Alexander Aitken, blacksmith, died on 27 November 1895, aged 60 years and had been in NZ 35 years. Therefore he must have come to NZ around 1860.
His wife Elizabeth died on 9 October 1927, aged 89 years and had been in NZ 67 years - which again makes time of arrival in New Zealand around 1860.
They are buried in the Southern Cemetery, Dunedin, Block 138, Plot 7. Photographs of the plot are attached on the cemetery information. Other family members buried in the plot are:
Catherine Freeland Aitken, died 10 April 1868, aged 9 months
John Harvie Aitken, died 20 July 1883, aged 4 years
William Harvey Aitken, clerk of Milton, died 21 June 1908, aged 43 years
Amelia Margaret Aitken, spinster died 25 August 1954 at Dunedin Public Hospital, aged 79 years
Catherine Findlay, widow of Dunedin, died 18 November 1955, aged 82 years
I see that there is a probate of will for Alexander Aitken, blacksmith of Dunedin, died 1895 at Archives New Zealand, Dunedin office (Reference given at
http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=22045668). Doesn't seem as though I have looked this up. So, I will go and take a digital photograph of the documents this week. Have ordered it on-line and will go and see it on Tuesday.
Jacqui
