Birth: 12 September 1830 Bretford, Warwickshire, UK
Father: John Wilkins 1808-1873
Mother: Elizabeth Holtham 1807-1880
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 3 March 1855 West Bromwich, Staffordshire, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Muscott 1827-a1881
Death: October-December 1871 Rugby, Warwickshire, UK
John Frederic (Frederick) Wilkins 1858-a1911
Priscilla Ann Wilkins 1860-1898
Lizzy (Lizzie) Jane Wilkins 1862-1896
Lucy Agnes Wilkins [Crane] 1869-1933
Birth of William Wilkins in the IGI on 12 September 1830 at Calvinistic Baptist, Wolston, Warwick, parents John Wilkins and Elizabeth Holtham. The same information is in Ancestry England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 and in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
In the 1841 census as William Wilkins aged 10, born in Warwickshire and living with John and Elizabeth (parents?), Edward, Gerorge and John (brothers?), Betsy, Mary and Sally (sisters?), Edward (grandfather?) and Joseph (uncle?) in Bretford, Wolston, Warwickshire.
In the 1851 census as Willm Wilkins aged 20, born in Bretford, Warwickshire, single, an apprentice to a bricklayer, and living with his parents (John and Elizabeth), three brothers (Charles, Geo Brown and John), four sisters (Betsey, Jane, Lucy and Mary Ann) and uncle (Joseph) in Brandon and Bretford, Warwickshire.
Marriage of William Wilkins and lizabeth Muscott in FreeBMD in January-March 1855 in W Bromwich (6b 646).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940 for William Wilkins aged 24, father John Wilkins, and Elizabeth Muscott aged 25, father William Muscott, on 3 March 1855 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
In the 1861 census as William Wilkins aged 30, born in Bretford, Warwickshire, a bricklayer, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (John) and daughter (Priscilla) in Bretford, Warwickshire.
In the 1871 census as William Wilkins aged 40, born in Bretford, Warwickshire, a bricklayer, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), son (John F), and three daughters (Lizzie Jane, Luch Agnes and Pricilla) in Bretford, Warwickshire.
Death of William Wilkins in FreeBMD in October-December 1871 aged 41 in Rugby (6d 312).
At the marriage of his son in 1884 he is stated to be a bricklayer.
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for William Wilkins born on 12 September 1830 in Brinklow, Warwickshire, parents John Wilkins and Elizabeth Holtman, and a daughter Elizabeth (however she was not his daughter as two families have been confused). There are three entries for William Wilkins born in 1831 in Bretford, Warwickshire, married to Elizabeth Muscott on 3 March 1855 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, and a son John F Wilkins.
Bretford is 4 miles west of Rugby on A428, Brinklow is 1 mile north of Bretford on B4455, and Wolston is 1 mile SW.
William Wilkins was the father of John Frederic Wilkins, husband of Kate Luff, my half first cousin twice removed.
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