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We are looking for any leads to our Ancestor Jonathan Atkins Govenor of Guernsey & later Barbados. We how found out much of the History of his lifetime on google. But Early life and the end of his life is a bit sketchy.
We know he married into the Howard family. And had a large house in the UK which was destroyed.
Can anyone help please?
Doreen & Jo

Husband
Jonathan ATKINS Pedigree


Birth: About 1642 Jersey, , , England
Christening:
Marriage: About 1664 , , England
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Wife
Mary HOWARD Pedigree

Birth: 1644 Morworth, , Cumberland, England
Christening:
Marriage: About 1664 , , England
Father: William HOWARD Family
Mother: Mary EURE

From what I've seen on google he married Mary Howard and was 100 yrs old when he died in 1702 and is buried in Grinthorpe, Yorkshire.

name: William HOWARD
gender: Male
birth: 1602
, Naworth, Cumberland, England
death: 1643 Jan 28

AFN: 9FL6-KS

Parents
father: Philip HOWARD (AFN: 9HGV-GR )
mother: Margaret (Mary) CARRYL (AFN: 9HGV-HX )

Marriages (1)
spouse: Mary EURE (AFN: 9FL6-L0 )
marriage: 1625 Abt
Of Ingleby, Greenhow, Yorkshire, England
Hide children (4)

child 1: Charles HOWARD (AFN: 9FL6-NB )
gender: Male
birth: 1629
, Naworth, Cumberland, England
death: 1684/1685 Feb 24
, Castle Howard, Cumberland, England
burial: 1685 Mar 12
York, Minster, Yorkshire, England

child 2: Margaret HOWARD (AFN: 9FL6-M5 )
gender: Female
birth: 1635 Abt
Of, Naworth, Cumberland, England
death: 1664 Sep 30


child 3: Charles HOWARD (AFN: V9H0-MB )
gender: Male
birth: 1627


child 4: Elizabeth HOWARD (AFN: V9H0-NH )
gender: Female
birth: 1633 Abt
Naworth, Cumberland, England

Thank you for your help.
We are hoping to find a place of burial. Do you think there is a place?
In the History Archives we found Grimthorpe??

name: Mary EURE
gender: Female
birth: 1602
Of, Wilton, Durham, England
christening: 1602 Sep 16
Of Ingleby, Greenhow, Yorkshire, England
death: 1638 Jan 28

AFN: 9FL6-L0

Parents
father: William EURE (AFN: 9HGV-P0 )
mother: Lucy NOEL (AFN: )

Marriages (1)
spouse: William HOWARD (AFN: )
marriage: 1625 Abt
Of Ingleby, Greenhow, Yorkshire, England

Thank you

The article I found also mentioned a daughter Frances, so I'm wondering if this is her birth:-

Name: Frances Atkins
Gender: Female

Birth Date: 20 Mar 1659
Birthplace: GREAT GIVENDALE,YORK,ENGLAND

Father's Name: Jonathan Atkins

Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C10870-3
System Origin: England-ODM
Source Film Number: unknown
Reference Number:
Collection: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

Doreen,
could very well be Grimthorpe. The info was from a copy of a very old book and the writing was a bit faded in places.

Thank you very kind

Full text of "The monumental inscriptions in the churches and ...
Sir Jonathan Atkins was later Gov. of Guernsey, and died in 1702 in his 100th year .... was leased in 1704 for 21 years as a residence for the Governor. ...

www.archive.org/stream/monumentalinscri00olivrich/mon... - 554k - Similar pages

Entry Book - August 1672 | British History Online
Same to Sir Jonathan Atkins [and] Major Walters to attend my Lords on Monday ... concerning the inhabitants of Guernsey for money for the garrison there. ...

www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=79767 - 89k - Similar pages

Thank you interesting one isnt it!
His son Charles has something to do with Gullivers Travels.
You have given me a little more fodder from the Yorkshire connections.
Many thanks.

An article talking about the book Gulliver's travells:-

.......in essence it was concluded that the General History, for the sake of brevity, was written by Captain Charles Atkins and Stella Johnson. Stella
was the woman who won the heart of Jonathan Swift at a very tender age, but whether they married, or whether that marriage was ever consummated, has intrigued the literary world ever since. Captain Charles Atkins, on the other hand, had a very chequered career and, since his travels in the east occupy the same time frame as Gulliver, there is a strong hint his adventures
inspired the writing of Gulliver's Travels, and that he is 'Lemuel Gulliver'.

Gee its gettng very fruity isnt it.
Thank you

A bit more about Charles:-

The Early Years Gulliver's Travels begins with the phrase "My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons". Charles Atkins was indeed the third son of Sir Jonathan Atkins, who during his life was Governor of Guernsey (1664/5-1670) and Governor of Barbados (1674- 1680). It is not known whether Sir Jonathan had a small estate in
Nottinghamshire before he married in 1642, but he likely had a large one
afterwards, for he married Mary Howard of Naworth Castle (Cumbria),
thereby marrying into one of the most powerful and influential families
in England, if not the most powerful and influential. The Howards were
foremost among the nobility of the age, holding the dukedom of Norfolk
and the earldom of Arundel among other many vast estates in England.
The titles they bore were long and ponderous.
Charles appears to have been born at Worksop Manor, Nottinghamshire. Due to the English Civil War there is a gap in church records from 1641 to 1663, and the exact date of his birth has not yet been ascertained. Sketches of the manor, made before it was consumed by fire in October 1761, indicate it to have been immense - a veritable palace with over 500 rooms. Charles Atkins was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth - it was a huge golden ladle! His uncle was Henry Howard, the Sixth Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England.

really interesting article mostly about the life of Charles Atkins, could be worth a look:-
http://www.cgca.org.ukdownloadsimperialengineer_issue5_full_gulliver.pdf

....sorry the text doesn't come out very good!

Cannot thank you enough many many thanks