Emily Tweedale, born in 1831, was the oldest surviving daughter of Lancashire woolen manufacturer John Tweedale. She was married in Whitworth in 1855 to George Atkin, a Liverpool businessman, who had inherited his father’s tea company. Later his successful firm, Geo. Atkin & Co., also invested in asphalt byproducts. Her husband, a Liberal, was also a justice of the peace for neighboring Birkenhead, where the family lived. They had nine children of whom only four survived to adulthood, three having died in October, 1870. Of her two surviving sons, one, Hope Tweedale Atkin, married Sir William Dawson’s youngest daughter Eva in 1890 in Montreal; the couple then returned to Birkenhead where their first child was born in 1891.

George Atkin was born on October 23, 1822, in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. He made his fortune firstly as a tea merchant in Blackburn and secondly as a patent asphalt manufacturer in Liverpool (George Atkin & Co.). He also held the office of Justice of the Peace. In 1855, he married Emily Tweedale. Their son Hope Tweedale Atkin married Eva Dawson, George Mercer Dawson’s younger sister. He died on February 2, 1907, in Egerton Park, Cheshire, England.

Hope Tweedale Atkin was born in Tranmere, Cheshire, England in 1857. In 1890, he was in Montreal where he married Eva Dawson, George Mercer Dawson’s younger sister. They moved to England and had three children. Their son George Dawson Hope Atkin was a British Army 2nd Lieutenant. Eva passed away in 1915 in Wales. In 1916, he remarried Florence Cross in England. He died in 1921, in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England.

John Thomas Atkinson, Esq., was from Selby, Yorkshire. He was elected a member of the Geological Society of London in 1876.

Lewis A. Atkinson was one of the managers of the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York in the late 1800s.

Wallace G. Atkinson was a landscape architect.