Monday, January 20, 2014

Mrs. John Atkinson (Mary Atkinson), Bouth, Colton, Westmorland, England, 1867, obituary

Westmorland Gazette, Saturday, 11 May 1867, page 5 . . .
On Thursday, the 2nd inst., at Bouth, Colton, Mrs. Atkinson, relict of the late Mr. John Atkinson, Longmire, aged 97 years. She was the mother of ten children (five still surviving), grandmother of fifty-nine, and great-grandmother of thirty-seven. She was the oldest person in the parish of Colton, where she has resided for seventy years, universally respected.

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