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- Walter ATKIN and Margaret Hill BELL's first child was a daughternamed Mary Hill ATKIN. She was named for her maternal grandmother andwas born on the 6th of February 1845, in London, England. There is noregistration of birth for Mary in the English Record Office.
The ATKIN's returned to Atkinville, Douglas, near the City of Corkwith their young daughter. There in the presence of the ATKIN and BELLfamilies Mary Hill ATKIN was baptised at St. Luke's Church, in the Parishof Carrigaline, Co.Cork, on the 27th of July 1845.
After the birth of her brother Walter in 1846, the family moved toDublin where two more sister, Margaret Hill and Eleanor Harrison ATKINwere born.
The young Mary Hill ATKIN sailed to America with her parents andsiblings, accompanied by members of her father's extended family. Afterlanding in New York and the birth of a new sister Annie Bell ATKIN there,the family moved eastwards to the Illinois area where here uncles andaunts settled. Here another sister Elizabeth to Mary Hill was born about1855.
When grandmother Arabella ATKIN wanted to return to her homeland,parents Walter and Margaret packed up the family belongings and withtheir children returned to England around 1857. Grandmother Arabellareturned to Ireland to live and the young ATKIN family stayed in Londonwhere another sister Victoria Rossetta Barbara was born in March 1858.
At the end of the year Walter, Margaret and their six childrensailed to Melbourne Australia, arriving at the end of March 1859. Thepromise of a prosperous new life in the colonies was a remote dream forthe ATKIN family. Three more sisters were born, and three died inMelbourne. Then Mary's father Walter ATKIN died in 1865.
Mary Hill ATKIN helped her mother with the children through thosedifficult times, until in 1868 Mary married.
Mary Hill ATKIN married Jean Arstide D'ASSONVILLE on the 6th of June1868 at the Fitzroy Registrar's Office in Melbourne. Jean Arstide, awidower was a clerk by profession, who had been born in Maritius about1831.
Margaret Hill ATKIN was one of the witnesses to sign the MarriageCertificate after the ceremony. Comparing signatures of mother Margaretand daughter Margaret, it is probably mother Margaret Hill ATKIN whosigned as a witness.
The D'ASSONVILLE's lived in the south of Melbourne where theirchildren were born. Jean Arstide was a witness to the marriage of Mary'ssister Margaret Hill ATKIN to Thomas BLAIR in 1869.
Mary Hill and Jean Arstide's first child, Louise ArstideD'ASSONVILLE was born at South Melbourne in 1868.
In 1872 daughter Marie Louise D'ASSONVILLE was born in Melbournefollowed by the birth of a son Peirre Albert Lucien in 1876 at EmeraldHill, Melbourne.
Three more sons Paul Adolphe Leon born in 1877, Marc Auguste Rodoborn in 1881 and Mathew E. Victor completed the family of Mary Hill andJean Arstide D'ASSONVILLE.
Mary Hill D'ASSONVILLE died in New South Wales, Australia in 1887.(Death Entry. N.S.W. 1887 #7997).
Husband, Jean Aristide D'ASSONVILLE died the same year, agedfifty-seven years. The death was registered in East Melbourne in 1887. (Death Entry. Vic. 1887 #14506).
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