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Aiken Family Chart #1.
Last Updated April 2008.
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Elizabeth Reid Aiken |
George
Aiken Born 1823 Married 1844 Died, 22 October 1894 |
Robert
Aiken Died 1848 |
James
Aiken Born 1756 Married July 1797 |
John
Aiken Married 2 June 1715 Died 1759 |
 William
Aiken |
| Janet Craig Married 2 June 1715 |
John Craig | ||||
| Elizabeth Russell Died 2 January 1857 |
John Russell |
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| Jane | |||||
| Janet Steel | George Steel | ||||
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William Gardiner |
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Margaret Reid |
Henry Reid Born, 14 November 1798 Married 25 June 1998 |
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| Janet McFarlane |
Elizabeth Reid Aiken
Born, 1850, Nelson, NZ
Married, Robert Austen Young,
21 August 1873
Died, 1 June 1910
George Aiken
Born 1823, in Glasgow, Scotland
Married, Janet McFarlane Gardiner
1844
Arrived, New Zealand, 1840
Died, 22 October 1894, Queensland, Australia.
In the 1852 list of Juror's he is listed as being a Trafalgar Street, Nelson, storekeeper.
Appears in the Nelson Examiner on 5 March 1859 offering an aucton of Kauri timber, and again on 29 October, offering an aucton of Timber - both in Trafalgar Street, Nelson. He appears on 21 July 1860 offering a sale of Cattle, Horses, Agricultural Implements, Dairy Utensils at Waimea East.
The following appears in the Nelson Examiner, 19 January 1859, page 2.
George Aiken sold by auction, by order of the mortgagee, a section of land in Waimea-east, known by the name of Willow Bank, and recently in the occupation of Mr. J. N. Bland. The terms of sale were cash, and the section only realized £260.
The following appears in the Nelson Examiner, 7 May 1859, page 2.
Local Intelligence.
Sale of Farming Stock.— Mr. George Aiken sold by auction, at Allington, on Monday last, dairy cows, at from £12 to £13 ; heifers and steers, from £7 to £10 ; working bullocks, £25 10s. per pair ; 30 head of mixed cattle, at £3 sb. per head ; pigs, from £5 to £8 15s. each ; two geldings were sold privately at £37 10s. and £60. All the implements and dairy utensils realized good prices.
In the 1860 list of Juror's he is listed as being a Nelson storekeeper
Obit, Mr George Aiken (born, Glasgow 1823, Died Queensland 1894),
Source: The Colonist (November 6, 1894)
“DEATH OF AN OLD NELSONIAN. – We regret to chronicle the death
of one of our most respected citizens, in the person of Mr George Aiken,
sen, (formerly of Nelson), which occurred suddenly at his residence, North
Bundaberg, at 3.30 p.m. yesterday, (says Bundaberg ‘Mail,’ Queensland,
of October 22nd). In the morning the deceased gentleman had complained
of a difficulty of breathing to his youngest son, but it passed off, and
he partook of a hearty dinner, as usual. Shortly after three o’clock,
when conversing again with his son apparently perfectly well. A cold perspiration
came over his body, and Mr Aiken, jun., at once offered to send for the
doctor, but that passed off, too, when suddenly the difficulty in breathing
again came on, and in two minutes life had fled. (The) deceased’s
only words being “Oh George, George.” Dr Thomas was at once
summoned, and arrived before four o’clock, but life was extinct.
Mr Aiken was one of our earliest Australian colonists. He was born in
Glasgow in the year 1823, and had therefore more than reached the allotted
span. He arrived at Nelson, New Zealand, in 1840, and took an active part
in the settlement and progress of his adopted home, his descendants to
the second and third generations being scattered over the Colony in various
parts. In 1881 he came to Bundaberg, and has lived with his three sons
here since then, except for a few months four years ago, when he visited
the old scenes of his early colonial life.”
George & Janet Aiken had eight children:
- Margaret Russell Aiken, married Frederick Wright on 19 December 1867 at Willow Bank Canterbury. They had 6 children (including a son born at Springton near Christchurch on 7 Oct 1868), and known by the Young family for many generations as the Wright family of the South Island. Frederick Wright was the second son of T. Wright, Esq of Tiverton, Devon, England, and a farmer.
- Janet ‘Jessie’ Marshall Aiken, married Nehemiah McRae on 28 July 1864 in Nelson. Mr N McRae was the third son of George McRae a flockowner of Awatere Province of Marlborough. They had five children.
- Elizabeth Reid Aiken, born 1850, married Robert Austen Young
- Henrietta Aiken, (Born Nelson 1860 Died Westport 1901) married
in Westport, on 24 February 1881 Mr Robert Falla (oldest son of George Falla, listed a a writing clerk in Haven Rd Nelson, in the 1852 Juror's list for Nelson).
Their children,- George Falla 1885-1919,
- Mary Frances Annie Falla 1887-1944 married John Mackay,
- Olive Dorothy Falla 1889-1958 married John Barr,
- Leonard Munro Falla 1891-1916 killed in the battle of Somme France.
- Anne ‘Annie’ McFarlane Aiken, married Henry William Young (brother of RA Young) on 14 April 1883 (maybe on 21 August 1873 - check dates!)
- Robert Steel Aiken, b. April 1856 in Nelson, married Ann Reid Gardiner 19 December 1855. He is listed as a Nelson brewer in the 1860 list of Jurors. He left NZ and sailed to Australia late 1870s - although his could have been sooner as his Hardy Street proprety was sold prior to May 1868 and he was noted as having left the province of Nelson in the objections to those listed in the List of Voters 1868). He remarried to Annie Jones on 23 June 1879 in North Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia - where he later died. He is listed on the Waimea Electoral roll 1867/68 as the freeholder of 18 1/2 acres - part of Section 82, Waimea, south Nelson. He is not shown on the 1869 Waimea Electoral roll.
- William Aiken, married twice, lived in Bundaberg where he owned a newspaper & retired to NZ. He had 5 children of these 2 Sons are: Charles Aiken (son, William was a CoE Minister, Auckland?) & Major John Aiken, killed serving NZ at Tripoli WW2, (had a baby son, Jonathan).
- George Aiken, settled near Bundaberg as a Cane Farmer. 4 children: Percy, Doug, Norman & Gladys
Robert Aiken
Married, Janet Steel (of Glentore)
Died 1848
Details here become a little confused. Apparently a 16 page will exists for Robert Aiken.
1. James (b, 1826) m Mary Belch
2. Janet m. Robert Gardiner
3. Robert sailed for N.Z. 1854
4. John, sailed for N.Z. 1855 m. Celia Garrard
5. Elizabeth m. Robert Carruth
6. Barton
7. William m. Jane Ritchie 8. Mary (b. 1847) m. James Steel (cousin).
Robert & Janet had 8 children: 5 sons & 3 daughters *alive in
1907
• George Aiken, b 1823 married Janet Gardiner
• James (2nd son & acquired the lands of Dalmoak, b. 1826?, d.
24 Nov 1875) married Janet, daughter of John Belch, they had 2 sons &
2 daughters, of whom James & Jane were alive in 1908.
• Robert (? sailed for NZ 1854, married Anne Reid Gardiner in Nelson
1855.)
• John* (?sailed for NZ 1855 married Celia Garranrd)
• William* (? married Jane Ritchie)
• Janet (? married Robert Gardiner)
• Elizabeth* (? married Robert Carruth)
• Mary Aiken* (b. 1847) married James Steel (a cousin)
James Aiken
Born 1756
Married, Elizabeth Russell, July 1797
James & Elizabeth Aiken had 10 children:
•Robert Aiken (eldest son, d. 1848), married
Janet, daughter of George Steel.
John Aiken
Married, Janet Craig, 2 June 1715
Died 1759
William Aiken
Had three sons and was suceeded by his oldest son, William Aiken. Other sons, John (see above) and Robert.