This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Govier, Atkins Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1120 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 889. LANCASTER CHARLES GOVIER, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Lancaster. Owns 360 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre. Born in England in 1834. Came to America in 1855, and settled in Illinois; located on present farm in 1870. Married Belle Atkins, a native of England, and they have five children - Ellen, Linda, Edwin, Fred and Rolla. [I'm not related to this family. I'm just posting this as a service and hope it helps.]