IRENE ATKINSON nee PARKIN is researching her family tree and unable to find details about her great grandmother on her fathers side.
She was born Margaret Renwick in 1853 in Ingleton, County Durham, to Robert and Mary Renwick. They moved to Hamsterley and Headlam, and were in Summerhouses in the 1861 census.
Margaret married John Parkin in 1870, after which they lived in Crook. They had a large family which included Mrs Atkinson's grandfather William, who was born in Fir Tree. He later lived in Mount Pleasant, Stanley. Mrs Atkinsons father was William, known as Bill, born in 1815.
Anybody who has details about Margaret Renwick or can help, can contact Mrs Atkinson at trevor.atkinson@hotmail.co.uk.
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