Atkinson McDowell

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Schoolmaster.

• Religion: Arrived New Zealand 16 June 1853 on the "Metropolis".

Atkinson married Isabella Playsted, daughter of Alfred George Playsted and Henrietta Beal, in 1865 in Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand. (Isabella Playsted was born on 20 Jan 1844 in Wadhurst, East Sussex England and died in 1920 in New Zealand.)