Catherine Manson Aitken

1921 - 2014  (93 years)

• Name	Catherine Manson Aitken
  Birth	15 Feb 1921	30 Arthur Street, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 May 2014	St Michael Hospital, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I8395	OrwinMillar
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Thomas Barton Aitken,   b. 4 Feb 1884, Fallside, Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland d. 1 Feb 1975, Falkirk Infirmary, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Catherine Manson Spence,   b. 27 Jul 1886, Dounreay, Caithness, Scotland d. 19 Mar 1960, 41 Chapelton Drive, West Calder, Mid Lothian, Scotland (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	17 Jul 1908	13 Prince Regent Street, Leith, Mid Lothian, Scotland   [2]
  	Witnesses at the wedding of Thomas Aitken and Catherine Spence were James Aitken and Nell Spence.
  Family ID	F1624	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Austin Hubert Howes,   b. 28 Aug 1920, 33 Bangor Road, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland d. 2022, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Age 101 years)
  Marriage	6 Oct 1945	St. Paul's Church, Lorne Street, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland   [2]
  Children	1. Living   2. Living
  Family ID	F3246	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2010

  
  

• Notes

  Cath attended Bellevue School Edinburgh. On leaving school she went to work in Martin's bakery shops until she was called up during WWII. Before WWII she attended David Redpath's Minerva Christian Mission in Leith. Here she met David Stewart, who she went out with for a while. When she was called up she went to work in a shipyard in Fife installing the electrics on corvettes. During the war Cathy met Petty Officer Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) Austin Howes. Austin and Catherine lived in retirement at Dedridge, Livingston Informant on the death of Catherine was her daughter Joyce Mack ------ From Source Attached To: Death ------ Death Cert, Cit. Date: 23 Dec 2014. ----------------------------------------------- ------ From Source Attached To: Residence ------ Death Cert, Cit. Date: 23 Dec 2014. -----------------------------------------------

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] Death Cert (Reliability: 3). [S77] Terry Stewart (Reliability: 3).