[2] Her mother was the eldest child of John Rowand (alt Rowan), merchant of Glasgow, Scotland.
After her Loyalist father fled Charleston for England in 1775, Louisa and her brother remained to manage the family business.
In her book's appendix, on page 108, she writes "This Manuscript I desire may be preserved for my Grandson Alexander Wells Aikman whom I brought up from early infancy, and who is now in his fourteenth year.
He also carried hundreds of the latest song sheets and collections of popular tunes from London, Dublin, and Edinburgh.
She was married at Kingston, Jamaica on 14 January 1782 to Alexander Aikman (1755-1838), a Scottish printer, newspaper publisher, and landowner.
Alexander died on 6 July 1838 at Prospect Park, Saint Andrew, Jamaica, aged 83.
[11] In an obituary notice, published in Gentleman's Magazine, it was written that "he was a truly honorable, worthy and charitable man, and his death is much lamented."
All six of those infants are buried near Alexander's brother, Andrew, at The Strangers' Burial Ground in Kingston.
[11] Her three surviving daughters were Mary Ann (1782-1844), the wife of James Smith of Saint Andrews, Jamaica, Ann-Hunter (1788-1841), the widow of John Enright, Surgeon R.N (1795-1817), and Susanna (1791-1818).
Her surviving son and successor in the family printing business was Alexander Aikman (1783-1831), who married Charlotte Cory (1781-1810) in 1805, married Mary Bryan (1787-1850) in 1814, and died in April 1831, (see Gentleman's Magazine CI, i, 650) leaving a numerous family.
In the parish churchyard at location K6-240 stands an altar tomb of Portland stone, surrounded by an iron railing, on which the following inscription is found:[12]Beneath lies interred all that was mortal of Susannah fifth daughter and Seventh Child of Alexander Aikman and Louisa Susannah, his wife, of the Island of Jamaica.
17th and 18th 1795, she escaped shipwreck, together with her Father, Mother, and infant Sister when above 2000 of their fellow creatures met a watery grave near the back of this Island.
is the Kingdom of God.On the side of the tomb is the following inscription:J. H. S. Louisa Susannah Wife of Alexander Aikman of Jamaica Obit.