Death Childbirth related: Adherent placenta
m. 9 Jan 1897 Victoria BC
Ellen Aitken was the daughter of Agatha (nee Quijack) and Alec Kimsquit. She met John Aitken about 1895 in Sooke, BC where she was living with her mother and stepfather George Brown. The story goes that Ellen's stepfather, George Brown, did not want her to marry John Aitken and during an altercation, the stepfather was shot and injured. George pressed charges and the case was sensationalized in the Victoria Daily Colonist during the last half of 1897. John and Ellen were married Jan 9, 1897.
John and Ellen moved to the Gulf Islands, living on Moresby and Galiano, and in the early 20th century they settled on Mayne Island. They had 6 children. Ellen died in 1909 with the birth of her last child. She was 30. In the Aitken collection of glass plate negatives there are only a couple of pictures of Ellen and a photo of her grave on Galiano.
Mother of Ellen Louise Margaret (Aitken) Georgeson #120029429, Dorothy (Aitken) Olsen #68271632, John Baden Powell Aitken, Roy Mathew Aitken, Annie Laura (Aitken) De Rousie and Kenneth George Aitken
m. 9 Jan 1897 Victoria BC
Ellen Aitken was the daughter of Agatha (nee Quijack) and Alec Kimsquit. She met John Aitken about 1895 in Sooke, BC where she was living with her mother and stepfather George Brown. The story goes that Ellen's stepfather, George Brown, did not want her to marry John Aitken and during an altercation, the stepfather was shot and injured. George pressed charges and the case was sensationalized in the Victoria Daily Colonist during the last half of 1897. John and Ellen were married Jan 9, 1897.
John and Ellen moved to the Gulf Islands, living on Moresby and Galiano, and in the early 20th century they settled on Mayne Island. They had 6 children. Ellen died in 1909 with the birth of her last child. She was 30. In the Aitken collection of glass plate negatives there are only a couple of pictures of Ellen and a photo of her grave on Galiano.
Mother of Ellen Louise Margaret (Aitken) Georgeson #120029429, Dorothy (Aitken) Olsen #68271632, John Baden Powell Aitken, Roy Mathew Aitken, Annie Laura (Aitken) De Rousie and Kenneth George Aitken
Death Childbirth related: Adherent placenta
m. 9 Jan 1897 Victoria BC
Ellen Aitken was the daughter of Agatha (nee Quijack) and Alec Kimsquit. She met John Aitken about 1895 in Sooke, BC where she was living with her mother and stepfather George Brown. The story goes that Ellen's stepfather, George Brown, did not want her to marry John Aitken and during an altercation, the stepfather was shot and injured. George pressed charges and the case was sensationalized in the Victoria Daily Colonist during the last half of 1897. John and Ellen were married Jan 9, 1897.
John and Ellen moved to the Gulf Islands, living on Moresby and Galiano, and in the early 20th century they settled on Mayne Island. They had 6 children. Ellen died in 1909 with the birth of her last child. She was 30. In the Aitken collection of glass plate negatives there are only a couple of pictures of Ellen and a photo of her grave on Galiano.
Mother of Ellen Louise Margaret (Aitken) Georgeson #120029429, Dorothy (Aitken) Olsen #68271632, John Baden Powell Aitken, Roy Mathew Aitken, Annie Laura (Aitken) De Rousie and Kenneth George Aitken
m. 9 Jan 1897 Victoria BC
Ellen Aitken was the daughter of Agatha (nee Quijack) and Alec Kimsquit. She met John Aitken about 1895 in Sooke, BC where she was living with her mother and stepfather George Brown. The story goes that Ellen's stepfather, George Brown, did not want her to marry John Aitken and during an altercation, the stepfather was shot and injured. George pressed charges and the case was sensationalized in the Victoria Daily Colonist during the last half of 1897. John and Ellen were married Jan 9, 1897.
John and Ellen moved to the Gulf Islands, living on Moresby and Galiano, and in the early 20th century they settled on Mayne Island. They had 6 children. Ellen died in 1909 with the birth of her last child. She was 30. In the Aitken collection of glass plate negatives there are only a couple of pictures of Ellen and a photo of her grave on Galiano.
Mother of Ellen Louise Margaret (Aitken) Georgeson #120029429, Dorothy (Aitken) Olsen #68271632, John Baden Powell Aitken, Roy Mathew Aitken, Annie Laura (Aitken) De Rousie and Kenneth George Aitken
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Ellen
Beloved wife of
John Aitken
Died May 17, 1909
Aged 30 years
Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord
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