♀Ann Wilkinson

Ann Wilkinson was a daughter of Thomas W. Wilkinson (1767–1840) and Agnes Airey, who married at Sedbergh, Yorkshire, in 1792. She was the half-second great-grand-aunt of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the half-sister of Nancy Jane’s second great-grandfather William Robert Wilkinson (1816–1886).

An index of the Sedbergh baptisms gives her baptism in 1796, the youngest of three children, after Robert in 1792 and Mary in 1794. A county history places the family at Hole House, in the chapelry of Howgill, where her father farmed. After her baptism the indexed baptisms stop for eight years, and a memorial compilation gives her father’s second marriage, to Ann Rae, as 31 October 1802. The new wife bore the same first name as Ann, who was then a child of about six. A county history of 1883 says Ann died without children, and it names no husband. No marriage, residence or death is recorded for her, so her dates are not given.

Her father took his second wife and nine of their children to America in 1830.

Notes

Her mother’s name

The county history names the mother of Robert, Ann and Mary as Mary Wilson. The Sedbergh marriage register names the bride of 1792 as Agnes Airey.

Two women named Ann

An Ann Wilkinson aged 65, born in England, is enumerated in the 1850 census in the Wabash County household of her son William Robert Wilkinson, this Ann’s half-brother. A household record of 1850 probably names the stepmother Ann, born about 1784; it gives England as her birthplace, which is elsewhere given as Scotland.

Her baptism

The index gives the 1796 date, taken from the printed transcript of the Sedbergh register rather than from the register itself.