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This small sepia-toned carte de visite portrait of George Charles Aiken senior is mounted on cream card with a thin red border. The image is of the head and torsoof an old man with a long white beard, wearing a jacket over a shirt and bow tie, and a hat.
George Charles Aiken was a farmer in Matarawa and Waverley. He was born in 1811 in Aberdeen, Scotland, son of Andrew, and arrived in New Zealand in 1857 where he married Helen (Ellen) Howie, daughter of Alexander and Jane. He died in Waverley in 1893. George and Ellen had three children:
Thomas McWilliams, born in 1859, never married
Frederick, born in 1860, married Grace Elizabeth Morton, died in Hamilton
George Charles, born in 1863, married Louisa Hannah Spicer
George is also reputed to have had the following five children, born outside New Zealand:
Mary, married Frederick Richard Parkes in 1861
Jane, married Charles Mungo Harkness in 1862
Alexander, married Jessie Dickie
Catherine, married John Dickie
James, never married
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