Family of William Wilks and Jane Turner

  • Husband:

  • William Wilks (1779?-1852?)

  • Wife:

  • Jane Turner (1780?-1864?)

  • Children:

  • Edwin Duncan Wilks (1801?-1860)

  • Marriage:

  • 24 Sep 1797

  • Market Drayton, Shropshire, England1,2

Husband: William Wilks

  • Name:

  • William Wilks1

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • a coal agent3

  • Birth:

  • 1779 (app)

  • Market Drayton, Shropshire, England3

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 61-62)

  • Liverpool Road, Burslem, Staffordshire, England4

  •  

  • aged 60, living with his wife in same house as son Charles and family, not born in Staffordshire

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 71-72)

  • Oak Street, Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, England3

  •  

  • head of the household aged 72 married, coal agent living with his wife and two lodgers. Born in Market Drayton, Salop

  • Death:

  • May 1852 (app) (age 72-73)

  • Cheshire, England5

  •  

  • note another possible is William Henry Wilkes in quarter:4 1853

Wife: Jane Turner

  • Name:

  • Jane Turner1,2

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Birth:

  • 1780 (app)

  • Acton, Cheshire, England3

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 60-61)

  • Liverpool Road, Burslem, Staffordshire, England4

  •  

  • aged 55, living with her husband in same house as son Charles and family, not born in Staffordshire

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 70-71)

  • Oak Street, Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, England3

  •  

  • wife aged 71 married, living with her husband and two lodgers. Born in Acton, Cheshire

  • Census:

  • 7 Apr 1861 (age 80-81)

  • Tophams Row, Willaston, Cheshire, England6

  •  

  • mother-in-law aged 86 widow, retired housekeeper living with a daughter, her husband and his father. Born in Acton, Cheshire, listed as being blind

  • Death:

  • Aug 1864 (app) (age 83-84)

  • Cheshire, England7

Child 1: Edwin Duncan Wilks

  • Name:

  • Edwin Duncan Wilks8,9,10,11

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse (1):

  • Eliza Sparkes (1801?-1834)

  • Spouse (2):

  • Emily Mary Campling (1817- )

  • Spouse (3):

  • Rosa Jane Maria Killick (1817-1909)

  • Spouse (4):

  • Ann (1810?- )

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • a clerk who became a police officer then a licensed victualler9,10,12,13,14

  • Birth:

  • 1801 (app)

  • Market Drayton, Shropshire, England1,8,9

  • Baptism:

  • 29 Dec 1801 (age 0)

  • Market Drayton, Shropshire, England1

  •  

  • son of Wm Wilks and Jane

  • Census:

  • 6 Jun 1841 (age 39-40)

  • Huntly Street, St. Pancras, Marylebone, Middlesex, England15

  •  

  • aged 35, police officer living with his wife, a daughter, three others and a female servant, not born in Middlesex

  • Bankruptcy:

  • 11 Mar 1843 (age 41-42)

  • Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall Street, City of London, London, England16

  •  

  • having lived at 1 Foley Street, Fitzroy Square, Middlesex for the past twelve months and being an Officer of the Police Court in Marlborough Street, Regents Street, Middlesex

  • Bankruptcy:

  • 2 May 1843 (age 41-42)

  • Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall Street, City of London, London, England17

  •  

  • at 1pm

  • Bankruptcy:

  • 16 May 1843 (age 41-42)

  • Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall Street, City of London, London, England13

  •  

  • being of 1 Foley Street, Fitzroy Square, Middlesex as an insolvent debtor

  • Census:

  • 30 Mar 1851 (age 49-50)

  • 37 Clipstone Street, St. Marylebone, Middlesex, England18,19

  •  

  • head of the household aged 49 married, formally police officer living with his wife. Born in Market Drayton, Salop

  • Miscellaneous:

  • 20 Mar 1853

  • Royal Oak, 14 Spencer Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England14

  •  

  • beer seller applied for a spirit license, adjourned for a week

  • Death:

  • 10 Jul 1860 (age 58-59)

  • Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England8,20

Sources

1.

Church of the Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch, (www.familysearch.org). batch:I03453-7 sys:England-EASy film:1701214.

2.

Ibid. batch:I03454-1 sys:England-EASy film:1701214 item 17.

3.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:2169 folio:64 page:52.

4.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:987 book:10 folio:15 page:23.

5.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Nantwich 1852 quarter:2 volume:8a page:232.

6.

England and Wales Census 1861, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG09 piece:2617 folio:119 page:30.

7.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Nantwich 1864 quarter:3 volume:8a page:182.

8.

Kathy Przeniczny's nee Adams Family tree, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Flowchart printed down. Cit. Date: February 2008.

9.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk).

10.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk).

11.

Church of the Latter Day Saints, FamilySearch, (www.familysearch.org). batch:M00879-8 sys:England-EASy film:580886.

12.

Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk).

13.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). London Gazette 1843 page 1498 www.findmypast.co.uk.

14.

Ibid. The Era, London 20 March 1853 page 15 www.findmypast.co.uk.

15.

England and Wales Census 1841, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:686 folio:11/19 page:36.

16.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). London Gazette 1843 page 947.

17.

Ibid. London Gazette 1843 page 947 www.findmypast.co.uk.

18.

Kathy Przeniczny's nee Adams Family tree, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk). Extracted. Cit. Date: 19 November 2009.

19.

England and Wales Census 1851, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:HO107 piece:1486 folio:135 page:38.

20.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Clerkenwell 1860 quarter:3 volume:1b page:301.