Links to Atkinson Resources
a) Two Atkinson message boards: http://genforum.genealogy.com/atkinson/
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.atkinson
b) An Atkinson resource page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kithnkin/atkinson.html
c) Atkinson family webpages:
1) Back to mid 1800's, Halifax, YKS, ENG: http://rascalz.home.comcast.net/
2) A Virginian family traceable to Shadrack Atkinson bn circa 1706 Brampton, Cumbria, ENG: http://www.atkinson-family.com/info.htm
3) A Canadian family traceable to William Atkinson bn circa 1799 YKS, ENG. m. Sarah nee Spence: http://www.theatkinsonfamily.com/
This site links to a list of Yorkshire christenings, marriages and deaths here: http://www.theatkinsonfamily.com/yorkshire.html
4) A family with connections to Brampton, Cumbria, ENG scrolling down to Links on the homepage you will see another site the Atkinson family, these are connected an American branch: www.tribalpages.com/tribes/maxjoe
5) A site dedicated to the families of two individuals who both trace their lines back to Cornelius Atkinson a Revolutionary Patriot who served in the Pennsylvania militia bn. circa 1732 either in England or Ireland: http://members.aol.com/glks/atkinson.htm
6) A family recently from Doncaster, prior to that Bolsover in Derbyshire & before that Swanland near Hull, YKS: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike-atkinson/index.html
7) The first generation of this family commences with Hugh Atkinson (1806-1875) South Carolina http://www.simpsonclan.info/atkinson/main.htm
8) A New Zealand family of Atkinson's traceable to William Atkinson who d. 1848, Hatfield Peverell, Essex, ENG http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/joanneat/Atkinson.html
9) The family of Thomas Atkinson of Milford, Sherburn in Elmet, YKS, ENG. He m. 1752 at Church Fenton, YKS, ENG to Mary Brown. Most of the family are from the West Riding of Yorkshire: http://www.atkinson-family-tree.co.uk/
10) An East Yorkshire family from Hull back to the Holderness areas of Patrington, Owthorne, Tunstall etc. Traceable to Peter Atkinson bn circa 1650 at Tunstall: http://www.trevan.karoo.net/atkinson.htm
11) A West Yorkshire Family traceable to John Atkinson (1802-85) son of Christopher Atkinson & Mary (Polly) Burnley: http://www.enicholl.com/family/html-files/atkinson_family.htm
12) This website includes a family of Atkinson's from Missouri, USA, traceable back to James Atkinson bn. circa 1817 Kentucky. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~altenbernd/
13) Adkinson's of Nebraska & Illinois traceable to Andrew Atkinson bn. 1801 Sth Carolina: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adkissonfamilytrax/My%20Genealogy%20Website%20101/
14) An Atkinson family commencing with John Atkinson bn 1729, Castleford, Yorkshire, ENG. with descendents in Nova Scotia & Florida: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familiesforever/atkinson.htm . This site also has a link to an Atkins/Adkins family from Virginia.
15) An Atkinson family traceable to John Atkinson bn Castleford, Yorkshire circa 1729 who married Frances Walker in 1767. Their descendents can be found in Nova Scotia : http://www.kinson.org/gene/wc_idx/idx001.html#ATKINSON
16) The family of John Atkinson bn 1864 at Bishop Auckland, Co Durham: http://pacificcoast.net/~patkinson/ATK/index.htm
17) The family of William Henry Atkinson who emigrated to Canada and settled in Mantioba. Traceable to Thomas Atkinson bn between 1731-1741 in Lincolnshire. Married Sarah Hewison at Wainfleet All saints Church, LIN, ENG in 1761: http://www.mts.net/~atkinson/id17.htm
18) A family traceable to Thomas Atkinson bn Patterdale, YKS, ENG in 1712. Who married Elizabeth Harrison in 1745: http://www.lm.net.au/~vstevens/d0/i0000027.htm
19) A family of Atkinson's from East Lincolnshire, ENG. Traceable to David Atkinson who died in 1809. Married to Sarah Chamberland in 1782 at All Saints, Theddlethorpe, LIN, ENG: http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/bainvalley/page17.html
20) A line traceable to Timothy Atkinson who d. 1738, Somerset Co., MD: http://members.cox.net/mountgen/atkinson.html
21) Atkinson's of Virginia. A tree back to Thomas Atkinson bn circa 1710 Isle of Wight Co. Virginia who m. Patience Chapin: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tarhalla/
22) An Atkinson family from Yorkshire, England who went first to Nova Scotia then Florida. The same descent as 15) above: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familiesforever/atkinson.htm
23) This is one page listing the Atkinson/Adkins/Atkins early Virginian ancestors of Sarah Elizabeth Rose http://genealogy2.com/firstsettlers/6firstsettlers.htm
24) An Atkinson family from Whitehaven and
Greystokes, Cumbria, ENG circa 1800 who emigrated to Illinois in 1872 http://mcconaughy2.googlepages.com/
d) Some early Virginian links:
For the archaeology of the Atkinson household at Martin's Hundred in the Virginian Colony of the late 17th C: http://research.history.org/Archaeological_Research/MHPage/WhoWasAtkinson.htm
In the following PDF document, there is mention on the 1st page of a reconstruction underway of the Atkinson house at Martin's Hundred. There is also a black-white photo of the partly built reconstruction: http://historyisfun.org/news/documents/Winter06rev.pdf
For Jamestown Colony census data:
For 1624, alternately try this http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/jamestown/census/1624cens.txt
For 1623, alternately try this http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/jamestown/census/1623cens.txt in interpreting the Jamestown Colony census information from 1620s, the then "Elizabeth City County, VA" is now part of the (independent, meaning it is not part of any county) city of "Hampton, VA".
e) Atkinson family project: http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/a/atkinson/
f) General Resource Pages: http://www.county-surnames.co.uk/index.php
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/familyhistory/
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp