Board: Message Boards > Surnames > Aiton URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.aiton/63/mb.ashx Subject: Aiton Family research Author: luisebreyer Date: 18 May 2008 Classification: Query Surnames: Aiton
Hello to all who can help me?! I am searching for any information, photos ect pp of my grandparents. My grandfather Joseph Bray Aiton (probably born 1862- maybe in Bridge of Allen near Sterling in Scotland but could also be in England- but not sure) and died probably on the 9th of January (deftl in January) in 1949- he served in the army in the first world war and got the british star(medal). He was a Captain in the 3rd Royal Sussex Regiment and also a Second Lieutenant in the 5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment. He was married to my grandmother called Beatrice May or Mary Piercy (died 5th July 1954 in Hastings). My mother also told me that my granddad might have been married before. Could you help me- I know there is hardly any information I have. Their daughter (my mother) is called Madeline Rosamond Aiton, later married my father who is Erich Breyer- so her name now is M. Rosamond Breyer-Aiton, she was born in Hastings. They lived in Battle, Calbec Hill. My mother also had or has a sister who was/is called Jean Isobel or Isabel Aiton, who lived or lives in a carering home near or in Hastings. A cousin of my mother and the daughter of the older brother of my grandfather Sir Athur Aiton, who lived in Dufield Park or House in Derby, who founded the Company "Aiton&Company", was called Corrie Dura Leapingwell (Maidenname was Aiton) Jane Taylor (Maidenname Leapingwell) was the daughter of Corrie or Cornelia. The son of Corrie was called Robert, died in the channel Islands on Jersey. Corrie died during a cruise in 1982 and her son died either 1 or 2 years later. Jane died before her mum - earlier in the West Indies- Jamaica! Robert married and had a son called Ian, who still is alive and probably lives in Paris. Ian also had a little brother, but we do not know his name. Corrie´s older brother was called John and her sister was the first female achitect in the UK. Corrie´s husband name was Bernard Leapingwell. My mothers grandfather lived in Bridge of Allen as he was a vicar in a church married to Someone called Marshman as the Maidenname! My grandfather has a sister called Rosamond who died early around 1885! My mother is named after her. My grandfatehr´s cousin Eric Marshman Baileyalso called Frederick Marshman Bailey was a famous botanist, working in the army, discovering the famous Tibetan Blue Poppy- Micanobsis Baileyi. He took on the Maidenname of his mother, who was the sister of my mother´s grandmother. Roger Boissier – has worked in the Aiton Company either as general Manager, who went away from the company. He lives probably in Cumberland . The grandfather of my mother (her mother´s dad) died probably in 1937, but not sure! My mother´s grandmother (mum´s side) died in 1948 in Hastings. Hope to hear from someone! Contact details: luisebreyer@web.de thanks, Luise
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