James Home Rigg Aitken

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James Home Rigg Aitken

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Cupar, Fife, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Death: August 04, 1892 (59)
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Place of Burial: Linwood Cemetery, 31 Butterfield Avenue, Christchurch, Canterbury, 8062, New Zealand
Immediate Family:

Son of John Aitken, Writer and Jane Aitken
Husband of Jessie Annie Aitken
Father of Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken; Sgt. Edward Bourchier Aitken; Pte. James Horne Aitken; Ellison Annie Aitken; Margaret Horsburgh Aitken and 1 other
Brother of George Aitken, Captain of the 20th Bombay Native Infantry; Andrew Christie Aitken; John Christie Aitken; Charles Lloyd Aitken; Margaret Jane Horsburgh and 4 others

Find A Grave ID: 115618428
Managed by: Jason Scott Wills
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About James Home Rigg Aitken

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Registers - Births and Baptisms

  • 8 August 1832 birth or baptism of James Home Rigg Aitken, son of John Aitken and Jane Christie [child 8], in the parish of Cupar

From Scotland's People: Marriages

  • 1871 marriage of James H Aitken to Jessie Ann Bourchier, in the district of St Andrew (Edinburgh)

From British Newspaper Archive: Lyttelton Times Wednesday, 23 August 1871 Page 2 Marriage

Marriage: Aitken — Bourchier. — At Edinburgh, on Tuesday, 15 August 1871 [inst.], by the Rev. David Arnott, D.D., James Home Rigg Aitken, Esq., of Canterbury, New Zealand, to Jessie Anne Bourchier, daughter of the late Stanley Bourchier, Esq., of Limerick.

From findagrave: James Horne Rigg Aitken (1832-1892)

  • Name: James Horne Rigg Aitken
  • Born: 1832, Cupar, Fife, Scotland
  • Died: Thursday, 4 August 1892 (aged 59–60), Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
  • Buried: [Linwood Cemetery, 31 Butterfield Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch, Canterbury 8062 New Zealand -43.52992, 172.68282]
  • Plot: Plot 34 Block 1
  • Inscription:
    • In Memory of James Home Rigg Aitken
    • who died Thursday, 4 August 1892 aged 60
    • Gladys Beryl Mudie Aitken
    • beloved wife of Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken
    • died Wednesday, 7 November 1900 aged 22
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James Home Rigg Aitken's Timeline

1832
August 8, 1832
Cupar, Fife, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1872
1872
1880
1880
New Zealand

Birth Registration Number: (reg. 1880/18713). Edward Bourchier Aitken.

1887
December 15, 1887
Christchurch, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand
1892
August 4, 1892
Age 59
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
August 6, 1892
Age 59
Plot 34 Block 1, Linwood Cemetery, 31 Butterfield Avenue, Christchurch, Canterbury, 8062, New Zealand
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