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« on: Thursday 23 December 10 15:19 GMT (UK) »
Thanks everyone for your observations, sounds like he was probably born in Atherton but I notice his wife Ann Dawkin was from Rochdale.
The dawkin side of my family has proved difficult to research as I have only got back to Thomas Henry Dawkin born abt 1862-65; he says he was born in Keighley on all census records from 1881 but there is no trace of his birth in civil records or parish records in Keighley. He married on 1 Feb 1887 (Sutton on the Forest) and gives his father's name as Thos Henry Dawkin dec'd on the marriage certificate. The Thomas Dawkin born abt 1810 was 71 at the 1881 census and as a hawker, he maybe moved around en route from Atherton to Sheffield. To date I have been unable to find any info to confirm he is my great grandfather's father or otherwise. I'll keep on trying.
Season's greetings to all
Maggie B