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Hello from Sussex - We have a 1930s manuscript tree including some earlier Wilkins.  The link to Carlyles is shown (perhaps optimistically) via Rachel Douglas Lawrie, Tinwald Minister’s daughter. Vague family tradition was that “Old Wilkin died in a pond in Dumfries on Burns’ Night”. Son Thomas W. shows wife Martha Shave (but this is a Suffolk surname). Grandson William Lewis W. became a surgeon b. Yorkshire, L. Suffolk, m. Wilson. This suggests that our generations have been mixed up, and it would be interesting to compare other sources.