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Richard Atkins or Adkins ( born Stretton on Dunsmore , Warwickshire , ca. 1871 - i can't find a birth registration ), son of Thomas Atkins ( ca. 1845 - 1901 ) & Eliza ( ca. 1852 - 1922 ).

Family name transcribed as Adkins ( 1881 / 1891 census' ) & standardized as Atkins ( 1901 / 1911 census' ).

Also missing brothers Henry (Harry) John Atkins ( born Wolston, Warwicks, 1883 ) & Walter J. Atkins ( born Wolston, ca. 1888 - again , i can't find his birth reg. ) ) - possibly in the military..?

Sorry about the vagueness of this post - this family is slowly driving me MAD !

Thanks

poss
ATKINS, Richard Head Married M 39 1872 Waggoner Urban Dis Council Warwickshire Wolston VIEW
ATKINS, Elizabeth Wife Married
10 years F 41 1870 Leicestershire Coalville VIEW
ATKINS, Mary Daughter F 9 1902 Leicestershire Coalville VIEW
ATKINS, Edward Son M 7 1904 Leicestershire Coalville VIEW
ATKINS, William Son M 3 1908 Leicestershire Coalville VIEW
ATKINS, Bertie Son M 1 1910 Leicestershire Coalville VIEW
RG number:
RG14 Piece:
19092 Reference:
RG14PN19092 RG78PN1143 RD404 SD4 ED12 SN62

Registration District:
Ashby de la Zouch Sub District:
Whitwick Enumeration District:
12 Parish:
Coalville

Address:
London Road Coalville Near Leiceste

Ancestry transcription

UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Name: Walter Atkins
Birth Place: Wolston, Warwick
Death Date: 25 Sep 1915
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Coventry
Rank: A/Sergeant
Regiment: Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Battalion: 1st Battalion
Number: 9707
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre



CWGC transcription

Name: ATKINS, WALTER
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 27
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Service No: 9717
Additional information: Son of the late Thomas and Eliza Atkins.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 50 to 52.
Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

Marriages Jun 1900 (>99%)
Atkins Richard Ashby Z. 7a 216
BRIERLEY Elizabeth Catherine Ashby Z. 7a 216

for ref:-
1901
Name: Eliza Atkins
[Elizabeth Atkins]
Age: 48
Estimated birth year: abt 1853
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Wolston, Warwickshire, England

Civil parish: Wolston
Ecclesiastical parish: Wolston St Margaret
Town: Wolston
County/Island: Warwickshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Registration district: Rugby
Sub-registration district: Rugby
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 53
Household Members:
Name Age
Eliza Atkins 48
William A Atkins 23
Henry J Atkins 14
Walter Atkins 12
Fred B Atkins 7


1891
Name: Thomas Adkins
[Thomas Atkins]
Age: 46
Estimated birth year: abt 1845
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Eliza
Gender: Male
Where born: Stretton, Warwickshire, England

Civil parish: Wolston
Ecclesiastical parish: Wolston
Town: Wolston
County/Island: Warwickshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Registration district: Rugby
Sub-registration district: Rugby
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Adkins 46
Eliza Adkins 39
Thomas Adkins 20
Richard Adkins 19
Jane Elizabeth Adkins 16
William Adkins 13
Annie Maria Adkins 10
John Adkins 8
Harry J Adkins 6
Walker J Adkins 2


1911
ATKINS, Elizabeth Head Widow F 55 1856 Charwoman Wolston Warwicks VIEW
ATKINS, William Adams Son Single M 34 1877 Farm Labourer Stretton Warwicks VIEW
ATKINS, John Henry Son Single M 29 1882 Farm Labourer Wolston Warwicks VIEW
ATKINS, Frederick Bert Son Single M 17 1894 Farm Factory Hand Wolston Warwicks VIEW
RG number:
RG14 Piece:
18636 Reference:
RG14PN18636 RG78PN1114 RD391 SD3 ED16 SN52

Registration District:
Rugby Sub District:
Dunchurch Enumeration District:
16 Parish:
Wolston

Address:
School St Wolston Coventry County:
Warwickshire

Thanks Choccy....how tragic...it's still saddens me whenever i find out that someone had died in the Great War.

Thanks Lindsey , this looks very promising for Richard ...i can believe that he thought he may have been born in Wolston as both his mother & most of his siblings were born there !


EDIT

hello again Catherine - i am still plodding-on with this deeply frustrating family ! ( they are connected to the Robbins' clan , the folk you kindly helped me with afew days ago).

British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920
Name: John Atkins
Estimated birth year: abt 1883
Age at Enlistment: 31
Birth Parish: Wolston
Birth County: Warwick
Document Year: 1914
Regimental Number: 6175
Number of Images: 9


Mother - Eliza Atkins

Wife - Edith Annie Shaw (widow)


This is his marriage -

Marriages Sep 1918 (>99%)
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Atkins John H Shaw Rugby 6d 1678
Shaw Edith A Atkins Rugby 6d 1678

British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
Name: John Henry Atkins
Estimated birth year: abt 1882
Age at Enlistment: 18
Birth Parish: Wolston
Birth County: Warwick
Document Year: 1900
Regimental Number: 7438
Regiment Name: B War R
Number of Images: 7


Father - Thomas Atkins, Wolston, nr Coventry

Theres a tree on ancestry with these names on, owner active queensland ?

wonderful Choccy , thanks again...i have got this marriage noted as a 'possible', but now you have proved it beyond doubt .

Possible birth for Richard:-

Births Jun 1873 (>99%)
Adkins Richard Banbury 3a 733
The district Banbury spans the boundaries of the counties of Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire


and for Walter J..?
Births Dec 1889 (>99%)
Atkins Walter James Tamworth 6b 421
The district Tamworth spans the boundaries of the counties of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire

Lindsey , typical - i don't have Ancestry unfortunately.
I am trying to sort this out for my cousin , who lost his father afew weeks ago , aged 85 ( it is his tangled family tree you are all helping me to build ).

I know of ancestors in Canada , but not Australia.

Hello!
Always frustrating with a name like Atkins (Adkins), and how sad that the two brothers were both killed in the war. But at least you know what happened to them now.
Catherine

Choccy - sorry to be a nuisance but can you please confirm that John Atkins died in the Great War aswell as brother Walter ? ( i can't seem to see a year of death...).

Thanks again !

Don't think he died in the Great War.

Have now found a tree on Ancestry which has a daughter, Brenda Betty Atkins, born in 1923 in Leicestershire.

'Usually' service and pension records are not on Ancestry if a soldier has died (that said, sometimes they are!)


Births Jun 1923 (>99%)
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ATKINS Brenda B Harris Lutterworth 7a 6


(this is assuming the tree is 'correct')



Pension records have him 'demobbed' March 1919

Difficult to find a death for John Henry Atkins/Henry John Atkins -

this is a possibility - birth date out by a few years -


England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
Name: Henry John Atkins
Birth Date: 3 Aug 1886
Death Registration Month/Year: 1973
Registration district: Coventry
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 9c
Page: 2081


His wife apparently died in 1971 in Rugby.

Thanks Choccy , could i ask you how old Edith was when she died in 1971 please ( i think the word 'widow' on those pension records confused me - i now assume this means that she was a widow when she married John Atkins..? ).

Yes, a widow when she married John Atkins.



She was apparently born Edith Annie Harris in 1888 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, so she would have been about 83 when she died.



Marriages Mar 1912 (>99%)
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Harris Edith A Shaw Lutterworth 7a 5
Shaw John C Harris Lutterworth 7a 5



Her first husband died in the Great War


Name: SHAW, JOHN CHARLES
Initials: J C
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Unit Text: 11th Bn.
Age: 26
Date of Death: 01/08/1916
Service No: 18100
Additional information: Son of Joseph and Hannah Shaw, of Dunchurch, Rugby; husband of Edith Annie Atkins (formerly Shaw), of Walton, Rugby.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: I. U. 23.
Cemetery: BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT