This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/7aB.2ACEAE/393.3.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi Debi; Mary Ellen Atkinson b. 20 Jan 1840, Montreal Canada. d. Jul 1929, Newport RI. Married Thomas H. Millington, Newport RI. (my great grandparents) Mary Ellen's parents were Joseph Atkinson and ??? Sheldon, Montreal Canada. Hope this has been helpful but I doubt it. I would love to know whether they were loyalists who left this country or came directly from England. Brad