I have run into a brick wall with this in-law. The only document I can get is a 1913 marriage cert at Scarborough, Yorks where she is given as Ellen Atkin, age 23. Father James Atkin. Problem is there is no Ellen Atkin born in 1890. James Atkin is also elusive, the only entry that fits is the 1881 census where he is a ship's master, docked at Hull. On the marriage cert there is a witness: Elizabeth Wilkinson. One of Ellen's grandchildren tells me that Ellen was born out of wedlock to Elizabeth's sister but raised by Elizabeth and husband Joseph who was a solicitor (or similar) in York. Ellen went to school at Harrogate so this seems possible. It is likely that James Atkin was the biological father and took over his daughter when he retired and she assumed his name. I can't find Joseph in York and would like help in finding the marriage of Elizabeth and Joseph, so that we can get Eliza's maiden name and so trace her sister who would have registered Ellen's birth - in her own name presumably. I would also like help with James Atkin, birth, death, anything. Ellen and her five children are all deceased.James Atkin managed to avoid all the census', including the 1911. There are problems with Ellen's husband, Arthur, but will come to him after we have sorted Ellen out.
