Tour Scotland photograph of the John Christie Aitken gravestone in the cathedral cemetery in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. The surname in its present form is an old surname from the parish of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, and in Orkney it is believed to have replaced the old Norse name Haakon. Robert Aitken, born 1734, died 1832, from Dalkeith, was commended by resolution of congress for printing of the Bible in the United States of America. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Akyne, which was dated 1405.
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