AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
Spouses
1Harriet Lillias AITKEN 
, GG Aunt
, GG AuntBirth Date3 Apr 1860177
Birth PlaceBroadford, Mitchell Shire, Victoria, Australia
MemoInformant was mother Elizabeth Aitken of Barkly Street , Carlton on 8th of August in 1860.
Death Date3 Feb 1931178 Age: 70
Death PlaceOrepuki, Southland, New Zealand
Burial Dateaft 3 Feb 1931179
Burial PlaceOrepuki, Southland, New Zealand
MemoSame location as husband James Young
FatherJames AITKEN (1838-1926)
MotherElizabeth Christie WALKER (1837-1918)
Notes for David ALDERSON
Emigrated to New Zealand 1877 on the "Western Monarch"
Notes for Harriet Lillias (Spouse 1)
After the death of her husband James on 24 February 1899, Harriet continued running the farm with the help of her family. In 1903, she married David Alderson, who had come out from County Durham, England, in 1877 on the 'Western Monarch'. The family farm was dissolved in 1919, when the Aldersons moved to retirement in Orepuki. She is remembered by many of her grandchildren as a kind old lady in her many petticoats and long skirts. Her grandson James Owen Young can well remember her playing the piano and concertina when he stayed with her, in his early school years at Orepuki. She also enjoyed a game of cards particulars Euchre or Crib. Her granddaughter Jesse Harriet Young has fond memories of her kindness. An example of this was her taking to the Orepuki Railway Station each Friday evening a steaming jug of hot tea to warm Jessie and sister Agnes Mary Young on their way home from secondary school in Invercargill.190