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- Alicia Drew ATKIN born about 1816 was the first child of WalterATKIN of Atkinville and Arabella DREW, who had married in 1815. She wasnamed after Arabella's mother Alicia DREW the eldest daughter of PiercePOWER and Elizabeth BROWNING of Affane Co.Waterford.
On the 22nd of January 1846 at the Parish Church of Nirkenny, Cork,Alicia Drew ATKIN was married to Edward AUSTIN, son of Thomas AUSTIN.Witnesses to the marriage were James ATKIN & George M. WHITE.
From Parish Registers of Inniskenny, Co. Cork.
Marriage - 1846 Jan 22 - Edward AUSTIN full age, bachelor gent ofWaterfall, by licence to Alicia Drew ATKINs, full age, spinster ofBishopstown. Witness: Grant W. ATKIN & Geo. M. WHITE.
Edward and Alicia AUSTIN emigrated to the United States of America,along with Alicia's mother, Arabella ATKIN, sisters Arabella and herhusband Henry Digby HARRIS, Catherine, Georgina and brothers Walter andhis family, Richard and James, in the early 1850's.
It is known that most of the ATKIN brothers and sisters settled inthe Chicago and Illinois and Ohio areas. Some members of the family areburied at Salem, Illinois.
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