updated January 2019
The family of Ann Shedden and her husband, Arthur Atkinson are of particular interest because DNA matches have been found by ancestry.co.uk between descendants of their daughters Florence Ann and Margaret Helen to descendants of Ann Shedden's sister, Christina.
The common ancestors of these two DNA matches are Ann and Christina's parents, Alexander Hall Shedden and his wife Margaret Graham.
It is likely that Arthur Atkinson was born in Cuddalore, Madras in 1846 and was the son of a soldier in the East India Company army.