P_10433_0496 – Robert Atkins or Atkyns

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First name: Robert

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Last name: Atkins

Aliases: Atkins, Robert

Primary cohort: London

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Internal migrant: No

Foreign born: No

Supplier to slave trade voyages: No

Creditor to slave trade voyages: No

Philanthropy: No

Plantation owner: No

Sources: TASTDB Voyages nos. 76563 (the Mary, 1731 with Peter Eaton and the captain John Chapman) and 76704 (the Susanna 1737, with Thomas Herbert) are the two later voyages. Anna Maria Atkyns (d. 1743) the daughter of Robert Atkyns and Anne Bonnell of Austin Friars and 'More Place' married Daniel Minet (d. 1730) in 1723. Her will, of Moor Place, made in 1740 is silent on her father. PROB 11/797/259. Robert Atkyns or Atkins was party to numerous suits between the 1710s and the 1750s. Robert Atkins and Edward Dod[d] and others were party to litigation 1710 C 10/447/12. Robert Atkins draper of London was also party to a marriage settlement of 1712 involving the Heysham family and Humphry Morrice [given as Morris], DE/K/22911, 22912; Robert Atkins was also party to the suit of Weale v Morrice, C 11/1504/43; and in 1750 Robert Atkyns, gent of Blackheath, Kent was plaintiff and the defendants: James Pratt, esq, John Wyndham, Richard Cook, William Mills, Philip Perry, Stephen Valens Comyn, esq., C 11/1648/3 Atkyns v Pratt. In 1742 Robert Atkins had conveyed Moor Place to William Mills to be sold for payment of his debts (Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, p. 63).