Waterton House Housemaid Update!

Annie AIKEN, a photo by midgefrazel on Flickr.

Housemaid, Waterton House 

Tombstone Tuesday Update!

This is the headstone of my paternal grandmother, Annie Aiken, wife of Thomas Broadfoot. I have, with the help of Jo, the "Scottish Genealogist" found her birth record. I didn't know that the place called Woodside is really in Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Thank you, Jo!

She came, with her parents to America in the late 1880s and returned to Scotland with them. She was not listed in the 1901 Scotland census, so I have been assuming that she was out working as a domestic.

Well, yesterday, I found her at age 17, working as a housemaid in Waterton House, Stonywood, North Aberdeen, Scotland in the 1901 Scotland census. I raced to Scotland's People's Web site to find the census image as Ancestry.com just has the index.

Bingo!. Now, I know I watch too much Downton Abbey. I was rewarded with a house history and several photos of the mansion as it looks today.