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It's Whickham in Durham!!!
I decided to write down all the Northumberland and Durham baptisms for a Thomas Wilkinson born 1805 in Northumberland in Durham 5 years each way and then started eliminating them based on noted burials, marriages while my Thomas was in Australia or who had children on census while he was in Australia.
So I get to this Whickham one and he is lodging with a William and Elizabeth Pitt in 1861, I reasoned Elizabeth might be a Wilkinson and a possible sister for a line of enquiry. She was one better, she is Thomas' dead wife's sister! I noticed this William Pitt had married Elizabeth Mutter born 1813 in North Shields, Thomas' wife was called Alice Mouter and she had a sister called Elizabeth born 1814 in North Shields. I find it very unlikely a random Thomas Wilkinson of the correct age would be lodging with his wife's sister and this Whickham one does not appear on census in 1851 when Thomas was in Australia, I've got him.
Over ten years it has taken me to find out Thomas' story, can I say a massive thank you to everyone who has helped me,
Dan
Durham: Hall, Wilkinson, Taggart, Woodcock, Watson, Gray, Wood, Cummings, Wheldon, Robinson, Cowley, Perkins, Burnside, Corby
Yorkshire: Petty, Blenkiron, Stabler, Garforth.
Northumberland: Wood, Hall, Wilkinson.
Lincolnshire: Bavin, Cook, Graves/Greaves, Catten
Gloucestershire: Smith, Jones, Wheeler
Ireland: Taggart, Workman.
Warwickshire: Commander, Betts.
Staffordshire/Worcestershire: Perkins, Commander, Plant, Nock, Guest, Hackett
