When John Atkinson was born on 6 July 1793, in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Plummer Atkinson, was 28 and his mother, Rebecca Clipson, was 26. He died in 1832, at the age of 39, and was buried in All Saint's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom.
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The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
English (northern): patronymic from the personal name Atkin or Adkin, pet forms of Adam.
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Possible Related NamesHistory of William Plummer Atkinson By Emmeline Chatterton McKay ( 2nd gr granddaughter) written in 1977 William Plummer Atkinson was the third child, and the only son of Rev. Richard Atkinson a …
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