John Christie Aitken

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John Christie Aitken

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Ferrybank (Ferrymuir Farm), Cupar Road, Cupar, Fife, KY15 5RH, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Death: March 13, 1871 (49)
Kincaple, Fife, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Son of John Aitken, Writer and Jane Aitken
Husband of Fanny Aitken
Father of Fanny Thornton Burn
Brother of George Aitken; Andrew Christie Aitken; Charles Lloyd Aitken; Margaret Jane Horsburgh; Colonel Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken, VC, CB and 3 others

Managed by: Andrew Scott Thomson
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About John Christie Aitken

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

  • 15 August 1821 birth or baptism of John Aitken, son of John Aitken and Jane Christie [child 3], in the parish of Cupar

From The Genealogical magazine, Published 1897 Page 257

IX. John Christie Aitken, Esq., of Thornton, Australia, third, but eldest surviving son of the preceding, was born at Ferrybank, Cupar Road, Cupar, Fife KY15 5DT 56.312248, -3.032658, 1821; settled in Australia; married Fanny Macnamara, daughter of Daniel Macnamara, M.D., R.N., by whom he had issue:

  1. Francis Aitken, of whom presently.
  2. Jane Christie Aitken, married K. MacLeod, and has issue: (1) Frances MacLeod. (2) John MacLeod. (3) Kenneth MacLeod. (4) Emma MacLeod. (5) Torquil MacLeod. (6) Oona MacLeod. (7) Alister MacLeod.
  3. Fanny Aitken, married Captain Burn, 14th Hussars.
  4. Alice Aitken.
  5. John Christie Aitken, Captain 92nd Highlanders, married Adeline Norman, daughter of Charles Loyd Norman, J. P., D.L., of The Rookery, Kent.
  6. George Aitken.
  7. Oona M. Aitken.
  8. Robert M. Aitken, died 1876.

From Scotland's People: Deaths

1871 death of John Christie Aitken, aged 49 [born about 1822], registered district: St Andrews and St Leonards

From British Newspaper Archive: Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian Saturday, 18 March 1871 Page 4 Deaths

Deaths: At [Kincaple, Fife KY16 9SH 56.352634, -2.872633], near St Andrews, on Monday, 13 March 1871 [inst.], John Christie Aitken, Esq., aged 49.

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John Christie Aitken's Timeline

1821
August 15, 1821
Ferrybank (Ferrymuir Farm), Cupar Road, Cupar, Fife, KY15 5RH, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1860
November 20, 1860
Melbourne, Australia
1871
March 13, 1871
Age 49
Kincaple, Fife, Scotland (United Kingdom)