Buddle Atkinson Family Roots
Our Family
We are descended from John Buddle Snr & Anne Reay of Durham, England, UK. John was a mining engineer of some repute, however his influence and impact on the mining industry was far surpassed by his son John Buddle Jnr. Buddle Jnr was a great philanthropist and without his contribution towards the design & implementation of Sir Humphrey Davy's "Safety Lamp", underground mining as we know it till today, would have been vastly different, perhaps it would have died a slow death.
John Buddle Jnr's sister Eleanor Buddle married Smart Atkinson, hence the beginnings of the Buddle Atkinson family. Unfortunately, Shane Buddle Atkinson's three boys are the last male descendants of the Buddle Atkinson line of descent to carry the family name. So hopefully they will have some sons themselves, to keep the family name alive.
Below is a photo of Daniel, Matthew & Ethan (baby) Buddle Atkinson - circa 2003
Primary Website Co-Ordinator
Hello all and welcome to the Buddle Atkinson Family Roots web site. My name is Ross Buddle Atkinson. Smart Atkinson & Eleanor Buddle are my 4th Great Grandparents.
As the primary editor of this web site, I have had a great deal of assistance from others associated with and related to our family. To those of you, in particular Rodney Whale, Jane Woolley, Sarah Boys Stones & Susan Bremner; a very big thank you; your help, contributions & assistance have been invaluable.
It has helped that our Buddle Atkinson name has in some ways made searching slightly easier, but only to a point; as it is not a common combination and only a few unrelated Buddle Atkinsons have been found.
Origins of the Buddle Name
This is an unusual name of English origin, it is possibly a dialectual variant of a locational name Beadnall from a place so called in Northumberland. The original spelling of this village recorded in the Pipe Rolls of Northumberland in 1161 was 'Bedehal' and in 1177, 'Bedenhala', and the derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century 'Beda', a personal name of unknown origin, and 'halh', which in this case means a corner of land formed by a bend in a river. The original location name may have Nordic origins, however this has not been confirmed.
During the Middle Ages when it was becoming common for people to migrate from their birth place, to seek work for example, they often adopted the placename as a means of identification. In All Saints, Newcastle upon Tyne on 22nd July 1654 one John Beadnall son of William Beadnall was christened. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John Bednell, which was dated December 1574, at Berwick upon Tweed, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Origins of the Atkinson Name
This famous surname is regarded as being of Anglo-Scottish origins, although with Norman antecedents. Found in the spellings of Atkinson, Aitchison, Acheson, Aicheson, and Aitcheson, it is as a patronymic form of the medieval male given name Atkin or Adkin, itself a double diminutive of the Hebrew name 'Adam', meaning 'red earth'. Adam (as a baptismal name) is first recorded in the English Domesday Book of 1086, suggesting that it was an introduction after the 1066 Invasion. Certainly thereafter it became steadily more popular creating further diminutives such as Adcock and Atcock, with the same meaning. Early examples include Adekin filius Turst (Adekin the son of Turst) in the 1191 Pipe Rolls of Norfolk and John Adekyn in the 1296 Records of Crowland Abbey, Cambridgeshire. William Atkyns was recorded in the Subsidy Rolls of Worcestershire, dated 1327 and John Atkinson was listed in the Assessments relating to the feudal lists of the county of Westmorland in 1402. Further examples are those of James Aitchesoun, master of the Scottish Mint in 1553, and Marc Aichesone or Acheson of Achesounes Hevin (now Morrisons Haven), in 1609.
Additional Note: Throughout the centuries; surnames in every country have continued to "develop"; often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. This in itself can make family history research very interesting & difficult.