Atkins family genealogy

Of Ballinard, County Cork[1]

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William Atkyns, of Chard, Somerset, living in 1393. His descendant, Richard Atkins of Chard, who died in 1567, married Johanne, and had Richard (ancestor of the Baronet branch of the family, the Baronetcy extinct); Robert, of whom presently; Augustine (who died in 1605), married Elizabeth Selwood, but left no issue; and Nicholas.

Robert, the second son, who died in 1616, married Jane, and had Aaron, of Chard (died in 1670), who married Joan Lumbard, and had three sons and three daughters. Richard, who died 1625, married

Petrewell, and left Aaron Atkins, of Chard; a daughter, Elizabeth, who died unmarried; and Augustine, who came to Ireland in 1630, and settled in the Co. Cork, where he married Avie, daughter of Edward Porter, and had with others a son Robert, who got large grants of lands, and built a residence called Highfield. He married Helena Parker, and had, when he died in 1724, thirteen children. Of these, Robert and Augustine of whom presently; John, who died in 1731, married Sarah Pike, and had an only child, Sarah, who married in 1762 Richard Armstrong, of Drogheda; Joseph went to America in 1728; Samuel married, but left no issue; George married Hannah Bullen; Margaret married John Barter, of Cuoldaniel, Muskerry, Co. Cork; Mary married Ven. Archdeacon Austin; Helena married William Clarke; Catherine married, in 1730, Silvester Clarke, ancestor of Sir Wm. Clarke, Bart.; Elizabeth married Sir John Franklin, Knt.; Barbara married — Bailie; Ursula married — Blurtur.

Robert Atkins, of Highfield, left a Will strictly entailing his large property in tail male. The eldest of his six sons was Robert, who had no male heir; and who, setting his father’s Will at naught, left (by means of a legal process then in force) the estates to the young son of his eldest daughter, on condition of his taking the name of Atkins in addition to that of St. Leger. The second son thus deprived of his heirship was Augustine, of Ballinard, Co. Cork, who died in 1761; he married Anne Foot, in 1719. They had six children, of whom three died before their father; George married, and had issue; Anne married, but left no issue to survive her.

Wm. Atkins, of Ballinard, who died in 1787, married, first, Elizabeth Beech; and had Mary-Anne, who married Rev. — Sturges; Elizabeth married Thomas Bowen; Sophia married to — Weldon; and a son William, who died in India without issue. He married, secondly, Catherine Lake, in 1781. She was eldest daughter of John Lake, by his wife Jane Roberts, daughter of John Roberts of Ardmore, Co. Cork. They had a daughter, Jane, who died an infant; and a son, George Atkins, of Ballinard, who was born in 1782, and died in 1846. He married, in 1810, Eliza Robinett, and had ten children: of these, George, who died in 1879, married Marie Orphelia Douglas, and left issue: eight sons and two daughters; the eldest son is now Colonel, 1st Bengal Infantry. Robert died, aged 20; John Cotter, who died 1879, married Annie Craig, and left four daughters; Josiah died young; James Bucknel married Mary Colquhoun, and has three sons, the eldest of whom is Percy Colquhoun, B.A., LL.M., of Cambridge, and three daughters. Kate died young; Mary married Richard Gregg, and has an only son Captain in the Army; Jane-Exham married George Woodroffe, and has three sons and four daughters; Elizabeth Augusta is unmarried, and living in 1887. The eldest son, Very Rev. Wm. Atkins, Dean of Ferns, Co. Wexford, who died in 1879, married, in 1834, Elizabeth Barnet, and left William, now of Victoria, B.C., married to Martha Taylor; Mary, who died young; Elizabeth Avie, unmarried; and an eldest son, George, Barrister-at-law (died in 1878), who married, in 1869, Alice Anne, youngest daughter of Rev. M. Lloyd Apjohn, of Linfield, Co. Limerick (she married, secondly, in 1887, Edward Maziere Courtaney, M.D.), and left Alice Beatrice, and a son, William Howard Lloyd, aged 15 years, in 1887.

Notes

[1] Atkins: For the compilation of this family pedigree we are indebted to the courtesy of Miss Elizabeth Augusta Atkins of London.