This mournful lady was spotted whilst I was walking through the Dean Cemetery last week. She has been devotedly watching over the grave of George Aikman, surgeon, from East Linton, Prestonkirk, for over 150 years and I thought that such a vigil deserved mention!
George
Aikman died on the 29th January 1857 aged 45 and left a widow, Jane
Brown Smith, who survived her husband and lived for another 37 years.
George Aikman's death notice in the Scotsman
of the 31st January (pg.3) gives few other details, but George appears
in the 1841 census at Prestonkirk along with his wife, Jane (both aged
30). They appear to have married the previous year at Prestonkirk.
In
1851 the couple are still at Prestonkirk (with no children but two
servants). George is named as a licentiate Royal College of Surgeons,
Edinburgh.
It
doesn't appear that they had any children before George's death in
1857, so I do not imagine that they have any direct descendants today,
but if they link into your tree at some point then I hope that these
images will prove interesting.
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