Author: ATKINS, Sarah
Biography:
ATKINS, Sarah, later Lucy Sarah WILSON (1801-63: ancestry.com)
She came of a Quaker family and was registered as Sarah, the daughter of Esther and Samuel Atkins of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, born on 28 Dec. 1801. In 1827 she published a prose work, Real Stories taken from the Narratives of Various Travellers. The only other work known to have been hers, A Sister’s Poems; for the Amusement and Instruction of Children, was issued sometime between 1825 and 1830, probably before 14 Dec. 1829 when she married Daniel Wilson (1805-86). The marriage took place at her (by then) home parish of Worton Over, where Wilson was a curate. Before they were married, she was baptised in the Church of England on 23 Aug. 1829, at Pakefield, Norfolk, as Lucy Sarah Atkins; her parents by then were both dead. He became Rector of Worton and then in 1832 Vicar of St. Mary’s, Islington, London—a position he held until his death in 1886--upon the transfer of the previous incumbent, his father Daniel Wilson (1779-1858), who had been appointed bishop of Calcutta. The couple had at least eight children. She died at home in Islington on 25 Jan. 1863. (ancestry.com 16 June 2025; findmypast.com 16 June 2025; Darton G1049, H1595; CCEd 16 June 2025; Alumni Oxonienses) HJ