When Amanda Atkins Manthorne was born on 5 June 1891, in Port Medway, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Alexander Lisk Manthorne, was 44 and her mother, Amanda Atkins, was 40. She had at least 7 sons with Leon Rowe Van Valkenburg. She lived in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911 and Leslie Township, Todd, Minnesota, United States for about 20 years. She died on 22 November 1961, in Minnesota, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Long Prairie, Todd, Minnesota, United States.
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English: locative name from Manthorpe (Lincs).
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