Hello thanks for getting back to me but my Atkin were alaways in the North east then I know that William Atkin moved to The area that you are on about. It's rather strange really as my mother lived in Brough some 35 yrs ago and she thought that she had found her dad in that area but when she enquired he had not long since died. His name was William and he was born in May 1879. Regards Jean