I've hit a brick wall with my family tree, can someone please help?

I have access to ancestry.com if you'd like info let me know at bunchabologna@yahoo.com. I did find this info. William Aiton that worked at Kew, the following info is about his son and it also mentions another son in the article.

Sometimes you have to work forward a bit on one end and work back on the other to see if the two meet. Don't listen to the others.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aiton,_William_Towns... If i find more I'll post it here.

William Aiton was succeeded by his son William Townsend Aiton in the garden Kew after Williams death the above website is about William Townsend the first William Aitons son.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/...

William Aiton's son William Townsend Aiton died 1849 :

William Townsend Aiton (1766–1849) was a Scottish botanist.

He brought out a second and enlarged edition of the Hortus Kewensis in 1810–1813, a catalogue of the plants at Kew Gardens, the first edition of which was written by his father William Aiton. Aiton succeeded his father at Kew Gardens and was commissioned by George IV to lay out the gardens at the Pavilion, Brighton and Buckingham Palace Gardens.

Frustrating is it not? I see several have already tried to put you on the correct path. Because I ran across so many folks claiming William (the gardener) Aiton, I spent many hours searching his family history. After he went to Kew Gardens, I found no record of him returning to Scotland and did find that his children were all born in England. My ancestors came from Lanarkshire and surrounding counties. I have 21 Andrew and 31 John Aiton/Ayton's in my tree plus some Eaton's. Even some in Australia. My DNA is on record at the Ancestry.com and Cambridge University web sites. The last convict ship went to Australia in 1868 so your great grandfather most likely wsn't a convict. :-) b8ton@yahoo.com

Don't try working your family history that way, just because someone is famous and trying to connect the two back to your line...it doesn't work and you are basing this on a family story, presumably because of the name, it 'fits' but family stories are not always correct, over the years, things are added, things are changed or missed out........of course it may be true, but if it is not you are going to be very disappointed at all the time you have wasted if you find it is not true, just someone who liked to think because they had the same name, they 'must' be related or just assumed they were http://familytimeline.webs.com/familystoryorfairys... of course you collect the information, including documenting the story and keep it safe until you get back to that era. The UK National Archives are at Kew, so that is where you look for the Botanic Gardens papers, there is also Scottish National Archives and Scottish ancestry websites, all these are on the links page of the website I have given you...and Genuki is a good site to look at so you know the area he lived and what records are available ( also on the weblinks page)

This is Kews website http://www.kew.org/heritage/people/aiton.html

You can always do the research using the archives and indexes, get your record numbers and then get onto rootsweb forum for the name/area and ask if someone would do a 'look up' of the records for you, who lives near to the depositary where the record is...I also think Genuki have a look up list of help....They may not now but I use to do 'look ups' for them from my own extensive records of one UK county and from Kew when I was living near there.

If you haven't already done so I suggest you try the Scotlands people web site. You may find details of your Grandfather AND G Grandfather on one of the earliest census returns.

Here's the link.

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

There is also a group in Edinburgh called the Scottish Genealogy Society which as well as holding copies of most of the Scottish genealogy records available to researches also publishes a lot of books on family tree related subjects INCLUDING a lot of the monumental inscriptions form MOST of the graveyards in Scotland. If you are ever in Edinburgh I think it is in Victoria Place, which is one of the wee back streets. There is a membership fee which when I joined a couple of years ago was £16. It may be more now. If you do not wish to join you can still buy some of the books.

http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/

All the best for 2011.

Keep an eye on http://www.google.com/search?q=Aiton+%2Bgardener&b... and similar searches. New material appears every day. Although these are not primary sources, there will often appear genealogical books and biographies that can provide clues to your future searches. Many of the older works are free downloads.

Brick walls need a bit of creativity. Sometimes an old history book will trip off a useful association in your head, and in the meantime, you'll learn more about the life and times which your ancestors may have experienced.

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Andrew Aiton was born about 1650 Avondale, Lanark, Scotland and died 1679

The following website may help.

The general rule with genealogy is that you should never try to work forwards - only backwards.

I heard of someone who was told that their ancestor was the Duke of York. They spent months working forwards from several of the dukes, only to find out that their real ancestor ran a pub of that name in Bristol in the 1800s.

Try different spellings - Ayton, Aton, Aitern, Hayton, that sort of thing.

I found 34 different spellings for one of my family names - literacy was not brilliant a couple of hundred years ago!

Please be careful on Yahoo.

Based on your information that you have just provided; your family's history is great pickings for people willing to steal identifies.

Good Luck on your search.