Peter Atkinson and Anne Paxton (Completed)

[patrexjax]

Hello Michael, Hey! No problem...I needed an excuse to purchase some Newcastle Ale....   Happy holidays to you and yours and many, many thanks for all your help.  Pat

[Michael Dixon]

 A snippet from a book " I Never Knew That About England"  ( a Christmas box  )

"Up river from the three bridges of Berwick, at Horncliffe is Britain's first suspension bridge, the Union Chain Bridge, built in 1820 by Sir Samuel Brown.
He devised a new kind of link for chain cables which allowed for the development of bigger and heavier suspension bridges, a technique used by Thomas Telford when constructing his Menai Bridge.

Union Bridge has a span of 360 ft and links England with Scotland across the River Tweed.   !


Michael

[patrexjax]

Hello Michael, HAPPY NEW YEAR!    Well, it looks like this is but another item on my "things to see" when I return to the UK!! Pat

[Wilkinson]

Hi Michael, Hi Pat,
Happy New Year to you both. Not here unfortunately but will keep that for elsewhere.
Michael. I've been on that Bridge. It's quite a construction and I've just got a recently published booklet by a former resident of Horncliffe about the village with a section in it about the Bridge. I've also acquired a short history of Horncliffe Mill.   Will PM you both soon with some more details.
I've managed to get a lot more detail on the birth/baptism dates etc. of Peter Atkinson and Ann Paxton's children and of the children of their two sons Peter (1830)and Robert (1827) mostly from the Durham Parish Records in the IGI. Peter 1830 is my line.
Also found the burial entries for parents Peter Atkinson and Anne Paxton in the Ancroft register. Ancroft Mill was where they moved to just before the 1841 Census.
Anne Paxton was buried 18th. Nov. 1847 aged 47 years. Ancroft (Entry 526)
Peter Atkinson was buried only 4 months later on 26th. March 1848 aged 55 years. (entry 533). The age of 55 years suggests that Peter was actually born in about 1793 not 1796 as originally thought.
Still no luck on where they were born or baptised.
Their two sons Peter then aged 17 years and Robert aged 21 years were left to run the Mill and look after the other younger children.

[patrexjax]

Hello Rob! Happy New Year to you, too!    GREAT find on your Atkinson/Paxton line.....May you have continued success in the new year!   Pat

[Naxman]

I am a direct descendant of Peter Atkinson and Anne Paxton.

Peter Atkinson 1796 Ancroft - Peter Atkinson 1831 Ancroft - Peter Atkinson 1856 Kyloe - Peter Atkinson 1877 New Delaval - Thomas Atkinson 1912 -  my father - then me.

[sillgen]

Hi Naxman and welcome to rootschat
I have edited your post to remove details of living people - including you!  We have a policy about such details as it is only too easy for them to be picked for fraud etc.
When you have another post you can exchange information via our private message system then nobody else can see it.
Regards
Andrea

[Naxman]

Well may father is deceased so Peter Atkinson 1933 Morpeth can be posted .

thanks Andrea.

[patrexjax]

Hello Naxman, and a warm welcome to Rootschat!     I am wondering if you have any additional information on your Ann PAXTON, as I feel certain we have a connection through her.  Pat