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- Walter ATKIN the eldest son of Walter ATKIN and Arabella DREW wasborn at Clonpriest, Co.Cork, Ireland, on the 12th of April 1818.
The ATKIN family lived at Clonpriest (Cloynepriest) and Atkinville,their home in Douglas in the Southern Liberties of the City of Cork.Douglas is situated in the Parish of Carrigaline and served by St. Luke'sChurch of Ireland. In later years the permanent residence was atAtkinville near Douglas. (See map on page
Young Walter ATKIN and his brother John Drew ATKIN were educated byMr HAMBLIN in Cork before entering Trinity College in Dublin, on the16th of October 1835.
A register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts ofTrinity College, in the University of Dublin, shows that three of Walterand Arabella's sons attended the College.
Walter, after graduating from Trinity College, was admitted to theHonourable Society of King's Inns in the Easter Term of 1838 to commencehis training to become a barrister-at-law.
In 1840 as was required for all prospective barristers, Walterentered the Middle Temple in London to serve at least eight Terms beforehe was able to sit his final examinations for his graduation.
From the Registers of the Middle Temple Inn of Great Britain:
'1840 13 Jan ... Walter ATKIN eldest son of Walter ATKIN late ofAtkinville, Cork, Gent, decd.'
On the 27th of August 1841 a Registered Deed was recited betweenWalter ATKIN of Atkinville student at law, Arabella ATKIN widow mother ofthe said Walter ATKIN, & Patrick ATKIN publican in the City of Corkreciting that Arabella ATKIN under the terms of Indenture of Settlementon her marriage to Walter ATKIN deceased was entitled to an annuity ofThree Hundred Pounds Stirling chargeable to the Lands of Coolrebeen inthe Barony of Imokilly. Transcript of the Deed follows..................
'Registry of Deeds re a Deed dated 27th Day of August 1841 at 12 past 1o'clock ..............To the Register appointed by Act of Parliament forthe registering of Deeds, Will, Conveyances & so forth ..... A Memorialof a certain Indented Deed of Rent charge or annuity bearing the date &executed the Twentieth Day of August One Thousand Eight Hundred &Forty-One made between Walter Atkin of Atkinville in the South EastLiberties of the City of Cork student at law of the first part, ArabellaAtkin of Atkinville aforesaid widow mother of the said Walter Atkin ofthe second part & Patrick Atkin of the City of Cork Publican of the thirdpart, Reciting as therein & after reciting that the said Arabella Atkinparty thereto was entitled under by Indenture by the Settlement executedupon her intermarriage with Walter Atkin deceased to an annuity of ThreeHundred Pounds Stirling, late Irish money chargeable upon the Lands ofCoolrebeen therein & herein after mentioned with other Lands in Said Deedof Settlement mentioned & has agreed to become an executing party to saidDeed of which this is a Memorial & ..........ant for herself & herassignees with the said Patrick Atkin & his Assigns. that she would notin any manner interfere with or permit the said Patrick Atkin hisExecors, Admons & assigns recovering or getting part of the therebysigned annuity of Thirty Pounds but that the same should be at all timeshave piece denies to the payment of her said Indenture of yearly sum ofThree Hundred Pounds late currency so far as the same was chargeable.... off said Lands of Coolrebeen but that such priority or piecedenies should not be considered as an invasion of her right or in anymanner interfere with her right to recover the full amount of her saidannuity. It was by said Deed ...fed that for & in consideration of theSum of Two Hundred Pounds Stir paid by the said Patrick Atkin to the saidWalter Atkin at & immediately before the ............... thereof he thesaid Walter Atkin dcd. by & with consent & app......... of the saidArabella Atkin testified by her being an Executing party thereto givegrant confirm assign & make ......... the said Patrick Atkin his Execorsadmins, & assignees .... that one annuity yearly rent or yearly sum ofThirty Pounds stir. rental bearing the same to his............................ & payable out of all that & those said Landsof Coolrebeen bounded on the south by the river Douglas, on the north &east by the Lands of Redbarns & on the west by the Lands of Monemorecontaining in estimation forty acres statute measure situate lying &being in the Barony of Imokilly & County of Cork. To hold receive take &enjoy the said thereby granted & assigned annuity yearly rent or sum ofThirty Pounds Stirling & every part thereof unto the said Patrick Atkinprovided as therein the said annuity to be payable half yearly as thereinmentioned & witness to the execution of the said Deed & this Memorial bythe said Walter Atkin & Valentine Barry of the City of Cork attorney atlaw & James Manning of said City writing clerk & witness to the executionof said deed by said Arabella Atkin is said James Manning & to theexecution of the same Deed by the said Patrick Atkin are the saidValentine Barry & James Manning Walter Atkin, signed & sealed in thepresence of Valentine Barry James Manning. The also named James Manningmaketh an oath & saith that he was present & did see the Deed of whichthe above reciting is a Memorial duly executed by the above named WalterAtkin, Arabella Atkin & Patrick Atkin & that he also saw the said WalterAtkin duly execute the above Memorial & deponent etc.etc...................' ( The relationship of Patrick ATKIN in thefamily has yet to be found.)
Another Deed that became known as his 'Will' was recited in lateDecember 1842, witnessed and signed on the 14th of January 1843.(Transcript follows.)
Registered Deed No. 165, dated the 14th of January 1843..... .Atkin toSugrue... To the Register appointed in Ireland by an Act of Parliamentfor registering Deeds Leases Conveyances etc.... A Memorial of a certainIndented Deed bearing the date the twelfth day of December One ThousandEight Hundred and Forty-two & made between Walter Atkin of Atkinville inthe City of Cork Esq. of the one part & Francis Sugrue of the City ofCork solct, of the other part Reciting that by Indented Deeds ofSettlement bearing the date the twenty-sixth & twenty-seventh days ofJanuary One Thousand Eight Hundred & Fifteen & made between Walter Atkinthe elder & Walter Atkin the younger therein described as the first part,Arabella Drew elder daughter of John Drew therein described as the secondpart, Richard Garde Davis & the Rev. William Power therein described asthe third part & John Drew Atkin & Christopher Frederick Musgrave thereindescribed as the fourth part. Whereby the Lands of Coolrebeen hereindescribed were limited to the Uses & Purposes therein mentioned amongstothers to the use of an only son of Walter Atkin the younger & ArabellaDrew & his heirs en taile male and of two, three or more sons of the saidMarriage to the uses of such one & such sons as the said Walter Atkintherein by Deed or Will appointed & his heirs entaile male & in defaultof Appurtenant to the uses of the first son of the said Marriage Recitingthe death of Walter Atkin the elder & Walter Atkin the younger, becameentitled under the limitations of the said Settlement to the first Estatetaile in the said Lands & Reciting that Walter Atkin party to theMemnabring Indenture became entitled as the eldest son of his said fatherWalter Atkin the younger who had died, to the fist estate entaile in thesaid Lands & after further reciting that the said Walter Atkin party tothe Memnabring Indenture has attained his age of twenty-one years & hadagreed to assign said Lands to the said Francis Sugrue for the purposestherein mentioned said Memnabring Indenture witnessed that for thepurpose of burning & destroying the said Estate taile vested in the saidWalter Atkin to the Memnabring Indr. & all other limitations to ariseunder the said Recited Settlement & for the other purposes & conditionstherein mentioned did grant release & confer unto the said Francis Sugruein his actual prof. being as therein recited & to his heirs & Assigneesall the Land, those the Lands of Coolrebeen bounded in the North by theRiver Douglas on the South by the Lands of Redbarns & in the West by theLands of Monemore & containing by estimation forty acres statute measuremore or less Situate in the Barony of Imokilly & the County of Cork. Tohold said Lands unto the said Frans. Sugrue his heirs & Assigneesforever. Witnesses to the said Indr. the said Walter Atkin & FrancisSugrue are George Tapburn of the City of Cork gent, and Augustine Ahernof said City writing clerk to Messers. Noble etc.etc.............................................'
Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1811 - 1858.
1842 ... ATKIN Walter of Atkinville, South Liberties, Cork. *(Son ofWalter and Arabella ATKIN. B. 1818 and married Margaret Hill BELL in 1844.
Sometime before 1844 Walter ATKIN had become betrothed to MargaretHill BELL, eldest daughter of Thomas BELL and Mary HILL. Margaret HillBELL had been born and baptised in Belfast in 1820.
Book. Year 1844, Page 8, Memorial No, 2
A Memorial of a Deed of Indenture of a Settlement bearing the date 17April, 1844 between Walter Atkin of Atkinsville in the South Liberties ofCork City, Esq., Barrister at Law (this crops up later) of the I" partand Thomas Bell of the said city, spinster daughter of said Thomas Bellof 3rd part and James William Atkin the Younger of Atkinsville and SamuelBell of said City of Cork of the 4th part, reciting that marriage wasthen intended to be had and solemnized between the said Walter Atkin andMargaret Hill Bell.
Thomas Bell gave certain lands at Clonpriest, Co. Cork to them as aMarriage Settlement. Referred to in Memorial No. 86 "Clonpriest".
Baptismal Registers, St. George's Church of Ireland, Belfast.
2 Oct 1820 ......... Margaret to Thomas BELL and Mary HILL
Walter ATKIN was admitted to the Honourable Benches of theHonourable Society of the King's Inns, to the Degree of Barrister, in theEaster Term of 1844. His graduation and Oath of Allegiance took place onthe 15th of April 1844.
On the 20th of April 1844 five days after his Graduation WalterATKIN married Margaret Hill BELL in Cork.
Marriage Notice in the Cork Southern Reporter: ...... 1844 Sat April20. 'On 18th inst. at St Nicholas' Church by the Rev. R. V. REYNOLDS,Walter ATKIN of Atkinville Barrister-at-law, eldest son of the lateWalter ATKIN of Atkinville in this County, to Margaret Hill eldestdaughter of Thomas BELL Esq. of Belgrave Place, Cork, formerly ofBelfast.'
Soon after their marriage they moved to London where Walter was topractise law. There in the February of 1845 Walter ATKIN and MargaretHill BELL had their first child, a daughter who was named Mary Hill ATKINafter Margaret's mother. Walter, Margaret and their new daughter returnedto Atkinville, Douglas where on the 27th July 1845 Mary Hill ATKIN wasbaptised at St. Luke's Church, Douglas in the presence of the ATKINFamily. (According to the Baptismal Registers of Carrigaline Parish.)
Baptismal Register, St. Luke's Church, Carrigaline Parish, Douglas.
27 July 1845, Mary Hill dau of Walter and Margaret ATKIN of Atkinville.Born 6 Feb.
Walter and Margaret Hill ATKIN announced the birth of their only sonwas announced in the Southern Reporter, Cork on the 31st of March 1846.They named him Walter as had become the custom in the ATKIN family.Walter ATKIN was born on the 28th March 1846.
Southern Reporter, Cork, 31 March 1846.
'At Atkinville on the 28th inst. Mrs ATKIN of a son.'
It was surprising not finding Walter's baptism in the ChurchRegisters, the probable reason is that he was baptised at home atAtkinville, as he was 'the son and heir'. These events were not alwaysrecorded in the official Registers.
Book. Year 1844. Page 16. Memorial 103
"A Memorial of a Deed of Indenture dated 11 Oct. 1844 between ArabellaAtkin, widow of Walter Atkin Esq. of "Atkinville"in the County of Cork ofthe V' part and Walter Atkin, student at law, eldest son and heir of saidWalter Atkin of the 2nd part and Richard Davis Garde, City of Cork of the3d part re. A policy of insurance for 500 pounds? the beneficiary wasArabella Atkin and Richard Garde was the Trustee." (A Summary)
Walter ATKIN Barrister-at-law moved his family and work to Dublin. Thefamily lived in Wentworth Place and 27 Percy Place, in Dublin. Here twomore daughters were born. Margaret Hill ATKIN was baptised in Dublin onthe 22nd of November 1848 and Eleanor Harrison ATKIN was born early 1851and was bapized in 1851 at St. Stephen's Church, Upper Mount St., Dublin.
Baptisms, St. Mark's Church of Ireland, Dublin.
'22 November 1848, Margaret Hill of Walter and Margaret Hill ATKIN ofWentworth Place, Barrister.'
Dublin Street Directory, 1850 by Henry SHAW.
ATKIN, Walter 4 Leinster Street, Barrister & Secretary to theDublin Trade Protection Society.
By now the ATKIN Family had made the decision to emigrate to theUnited States of America. All members of the immediate family still inIreland including Arabella ATKIN (mother) packed their belongings andsailed for New York. It is not known if they all travelled together orseparately, but the sons and daughters of Arabella, all settled in theChicago and Illinois areas.
In New York Walter and Margaret Hill ATKIN's daughter Annie Bell wasborn around 1854. Another daughter Elizabeth ATKIN was born about 1857in Illinois, U.S.A.
By this time members of the ATKIN family had travelled west toChicago and Illinois areas. Maybe by now mother Arabella was missing herhomeland Ireland, as Arabella ATKIN accompanied by her son Walter, hiswife Margaret Hill and their family of six children returned to Englandbefore March 1858 when yet another child was born in London. The othermembers of the family remained in America.
Victoria Rosetta Barbra ATKIN daughter of Walter and Margaret Hill,was born on the 25th of March 1858 at Banbury, Islington, Londonand baptised on the 12th of September 1858 at St.Botolph's withoutAldergate, London.
Arabella ATKIN returned to live Ireland to live in Navan, Co.Meathwhere she died 11th of March 1866.
Surprisingly, her eldest son, Walter ATKIN, his wife Margaret Hilland their seven children emigrated to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,aboard the 'Lincolnshire' arriving there in late March 1859.
Apart from meeting with his brothers John Drew and ChristopherMusgrave ATKIN, they also met up with the DREW family who were theircousins.
Walter ATKIN was admitted to the Bar in Melbourne in early 1859. Hisname appeared in the Law Lists for Melbourne 1863.
Ref Series 4029 PROV, VPRS 1163 / P2 unit 744 : ATKIN, Walter -Barrister - House- 121 Lonsdale Street - City of Melbourne, Bourke Ward.Rates Thirty pounds per year.
Law List, 1863, Melbourne: by SANDS & McDOUGALL. (Held at the StateLibrary of Victoria in Melbourne.)
'The law list 1863 includes the name Walter ATKIN of Little CollinsStreet, Melbourne, under the heading "Counsel at the bar". It is notedthat he was of the King's Inns, Dublin, "his date of call" was April 1844and his date of admission to the bar in Victoria was February 1859. The1864 list was identical except that King's Inns had become Queen's Inns,Dublin.'
It appears from the constant changes of their residential addressesthat appeared on the Birth and Death Certificates of their children, thatlife was not easy for the family in Melbourne.
Arabella Drew ATKIN was born on the 20th of July 1860 at CardiganStreet, North Melbourne.
Tragedy struck the family when in 1861 their daughter Elizabeth whohad been born in Illinois, United States of America, died of 'scarlatina'on the 12th of June at Stanley Street, West Melbourne. Four year oldElizabeth was buried at the New Cemetery, Melbourne on the 13th of June1861.
Then the thirteen month old baby Arabella Drew ATKIN died ofbronchitis on the 8th of August 1861 at Peel Street, Hotham, Melbourne.She was buried at the New Cemetery on the 9th of August.
Margaret Hill ATKIN gave birth to Thomasina Catherine on the 14th ofApril 1862 at their rooms in Barry Street, Hotham Melbourne. SadlyThomasina Catherine ATKIN died at four months of age on the 28th ofJanuary 1863 at 37 Victoria Street, Melbourne. She was laid to rest atthe New Cemetery, Melbourne on the 30th of January 1863.
On the 6th of March 1864 their last child, a daughter AlexandraATKIN was born at Victoria Street, Melbourne.
It was very rewarding to find that Walter ATKIN who had been theinformant for all the birth and death registrations, gave his place ofbirth on Alexandra's birth registration as Clonpriest, Co.Cork.
Walter and Margaret's son Walter junior, attended Scott's College inMelbourne before entering into an apprenticeship in the printing trade atABBOTT's Job Printing Office. Their daughter Margaret Hill ATKIN alsoworked in a printing works as a 'bookfolder'.
In some aspects their life in Melbourne would have been quitedifficult. Though it is not known whether Walter was successful as aBarrister-at-law there, it does not seem likely. Possibly he did havemeans of support from Ireland, however that seems doubtful as noagreements or Deeds have been found to suggest this. It is probable thatMargaret Hill ATKIN had been provided for by her father in the marriageagreement should Walter pre-decease her. This was the practice in thosedays. There was certainly some means of monetary support for MargaretHill ATKIN after Walter ATKIN died of pneumonia in March 1865.
It must have been a tremendous blow to the family when on the 6th ofMarch 1865, Walter ATKIN died of pneumonia at 31 Queensbury Street, NorthMelbourne. He was forty-eight years of age and had been ill for threeweeks. Walter died on the first birthday of his daughter Alexandra.
After only six years in Melbourne, Australia, Walter ATKIN was laidto rest in the General Cemetery, Melbourne, on the 7th of March 1865. Hepre-deceased his mother Arabella who died the following year, his wifeMargaret Hill and their seven surviving children.
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