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1. Atia Balbus Major - Mother of Quintus Pedius. In his great-uncle's will he received 1/8 of certain legacies. Pedius was a general, aedile in 54bc, praetor in 48bc, won a triumphed in 45bc and suffect consul in 43bc. He died after his consulship. Atia had a great-grandson, who was deaf. This Quintus Pedius was a painter, who lived between 1-13ad, who Caesar Augustus loved. When he died Augustus issued a special coin series in his memory. How he died is uncertain.

2. Atia Balbus Minor ( 85bc- 43bc). Atia married the Macedonian Governor and Senator Gaius Octavius. Their children were Octavia Thurinia Minor (born in Northern Italy) and Caesar Augustus. She had a step daughter Octavia Thurinia Major, a previous child of husband's first marriage. In 59bc, her first husband died on his way to Rome, before he could stand for a consulship. Atia married the consul of 56bc, Lucius Marcius Philippus. Philippus had a son of name same from a formal marriage and was a supporter of a Caesar family. He loved raising his step-children and arranged Octavia's first marriage to the consul and senator Gaius Claudius Marcellus. Atia was a religious and caring matron. She had doubts of her son being her uncle's heir. She died during her son's first consulship August/September 43bc. Augustus gave her the highest posthumous honours at her funeral.

3. Atia Julia Balbus (?) - Mother of Lucius Pinarius. Along with his cousins received 1/8 of certain legacies from Julius Caesar. Little is known of Pinarius.