Good morning!
I've changed the heading of this thread as we've now discounted the chap in Grove St that I started out with! It's now become a quest to pinpoint which Atkinson family is mine, out of the many available in West Leeds, that use the names Ann and John
Further to last posting, I now have a birth certificate for the child born to Ann Atkinson 6 months before her marriage to William Brownridge:
"1st Feb 1853, Thomas Brown, boy, [no father's name],
mother Ann Atkinson, Nether Cottages, Nether Green, Leeds, reg. 22 Feb by E Auty"
I went back to the 1851 census to look again at Nether Green and found this family at 22 Nether Green Road:
George Atkinson 69 cloth dresser, gigger (is that a machine operative?)
Elizabeth Atkinson 55 wife
Elizabeth Atkinson 15 daughter
Rebecca Atkinson 12 daughter
Harriet W Atkinson 11 grand daughter
all born Leeds.
The same family are in Nether Green in 1841, with three more females but no Ann.
Do you think I can stick my neck out and say that my Ann is probably related to this family? And that she might have been staying with them in 1853?
Because if so, there is another Atkinson family on Nether Green in 1841:
Mary Atkinson 55, washerwoman
Ann Atkinson 15David Atkinson 15
Sarah Atkinson 15
Charles Atkinson 13
HO107/1348 ED 48 Folio 47
What do you think? Worth chasing this family up a bit?
Barbara