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Atkins (Lurgan)
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In the mid-19th century James N. Atkins held land in the parishes of Larah, Lavey and Mullagh, county Cavan, while Henry N. Atkins held a townland in the parish of Lavey. James Newell Atkins, barrister-at-law, was the eldest son of George Newell of Cabra House, county Down, and his wife Jane Atkins, who married in 1825. James took the additional name of Atkins in compliance with the will of his maternal grand uncle Henry Atkins of Lurgan, county Armagh, in 1848. James N. Atkins died in 1855. [His brother] Henry Atkins Newell Atkins of Warrenpoint, county Down, married Jane Bennie in 1855 and was buried in the cemetery at St Patrick’s Church, Newry in 1872. They had a son also named Henry Atkins Newell Atkins, who was a student at Gray’s Inn, London, in the 1880s. In 1876, Henry A. Newell Atkins of Newry owned 870 acres in county Cavan while John Newell Atkin owned 596 acres.
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