Person:Isaac Wilks (1)

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Isaac WILKS
b.Nov 1836 Leeds, Yorkshire, England
d.Abt 1925 New Jersey, U.S.A
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m. 13 Mar 1825
  1. John WILKS1825 -
  2. Harriet WILKS1828 -
  3. Mary WILKS1830 -
  4. Ellen WILKS1832 -
  5. Isaac WILKS1836 - Abt 1925
  6. Hannah WILKS1838 -
  7. Henry WilksAbt 1840 -
  8. Esther WILKSAbt 1844 -
  9. Elizabeth WILKSAbt 1850 -
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  • H.  Isaac WILKS1836 - Abt 1925
  • W.  Eliza StraneAbt 1837 - Bef 1887
m. 23 May 1862
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m. 16 Jun 1887
  1. Marguerite McGowan WILKS1893 - 1982
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Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Isaac WILKS
Alt Name[4] Isaac WILKES
Gender Male
Birth[16][17][18][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][19][14][20][15] Nov 1836 Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Baptism[2] 2 Apr 1837 Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Residence[10] 1841 Leeds, Yorkshire, EnglandHe was a shopman. According to the 1841 rules shopman should be written as "Shm."
Residence[6] 1851 Leeds, Yorkshire, England5 Upper Cross Street
Other[14] Oct 1858 Liverpool, EnglandDeparture
Other[5][14] 8 Nov 1858 Boston, MassachusettsShip: Bark Ironsides (came with his parents) Arrival
Residence[12][14] Aft 8 Nov 1858 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[15] 1860 Lawrence Ward 1, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesAge in 1860: 24
Marriage 23 May 1862 Lawrence, Massachusettsto Eliza Strane
Residence[4][11] 1870 Lawrence Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[21][8] 1880 Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, United States
Marriage 16 Jun 1887 Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, United StatesChurch of Sacred Heart
to Catherine A. McGowan
Residence[5][20] 1900 Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA
Residence[3][9] 1910 Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA
Death[18] Abt 1925 New Jersey, U.S.A
Other? Census Summary

Names: Isaac Wilkes

Early bearers of the name Wilkes [Wylkys]: John [1st] de Wylkys of Pouleshale in Wylkyshire, tem. Hen. III. A. D. 1216-1272. John [2nd] de Wylkys, Kn., [Knight] born at Pouleshall, A.D. 1258. Removed to Hertshire before 1312. John [3rd] de Wylkysof Walton Surrey, and of Moorhouse in Yerdelaye Herts., fl. 1312. John [4th] de Wylkys, Kn. Fought in all the King's battles in the first half of the 14th century in Gascony and in France. His arms [these arms undifferenced from their original "plain" form] were carried at Crecy-en-Ponthieu 1346. Slain the same year under the walls of Calais. 1272 was the year that the English monarchy changed from Henry III to Edward . The Hundred Years War started in 1337. Probably the first of theWilkes line in America was Robert Thomas Wilkes, known as Thomas, who along with his brother Wiliam was sentenced to transportation to the colonies by Cromwell following the execution of their father, John Wilkes, Mayor of Shrewsbury, Shopshire, England, for leading the defense of the city during Cromwell's siege and capture of that city in 1650. This was reported in recent years by a Mr. Charles Wilkes, professor of History at London University. This John Wilkes was a descendant of the early Wilkes bearing these arms. Origins of the Wilkes' family: Prior to the year 1,000 A.D, people other than the nobility did not use surnames as we know them today. The Welsh people and others did recite their genealogy, but it was a long list of ancestors, inappropriate for use as a surname. Around the time of the Norman conquest in 1066, surnames did come into wider use, but was often applied to individuals who came from someplace else. Thus the Normal [Norman?] names "de Wylkys," as it was then written, meant "he who comes from a family in Wiltshire". The name "Wilkes", in Norman times spelled "Wylkys" originated with those of the name living in "Wylkyshire" now "Wiltshire". The Gaelic name "Wylk" meant "Wolf". Thus the name Wylkyshire" meant the province of the Wolves. About the time of the Protestant Reformation, the name was spelled both as "Wilkes" and as "Wilks" - the latter spelling being the phonetic equivalent of the true single syllable pronunciation of the name. The same name spelled "Wilkes" is also found in the Netherlands and in Germany, but there it is pronounced "Vil-kes" in two syllables. In England, some of the name became Protestants, while others remained Catholic. Such divisions always caused much trouble among family members, and this was no exception. The Catholic members kept the spelling of "Wilkes" - followers of tradition are loath to change things for the sake of changing. this group lived primarily near the city of Yorkshire in East-Central England. Others who became Protestant, spelled their name "Wilks" to differentiate themselves from their despised kinsmen who did not follow King Henry VIII's wishes. Eventually this distinction was forgotten, but both spellings persisted. In what is not the United States, most families farmed for a living, and were not of high education. When these family members bought or sold real estate, recorded births, marriages and deaths, they often verbally told the county recorders their names, who then recorded it as it sounded to them. If the recorders did not know better or were not told differently, they would write the name as "Wilks", spelling the name as it sounded. If they did know better, or if the family member thought to spell it for them, it was written as "Wilkes". At times the same name appears under both spellings in the same document. Thus families spelling their name either way were in fact the same family, and not two distinct families.

References
  1. ↑ Ancestry Family Trees. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;)
    Ancestry Family Trees.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. West Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - West Yorkshire Nonconformist Records. Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, and Wakefield, England: West Yorkshire Archive Service. Archive reference information can;).

    Residence date:
    Residence place: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
    Baptism date: 2 Apr 1837
    Baptism place:

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 1910 Federal Census. (Name: The enumeration day was 15 Apr 1910.;).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 1870 Federal Census.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18;)
    Year: 1900; Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: T623_969; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 201.

    Birth date: Nov 1836 Birth place: England Marriage date: 1887 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Bloomfield town, Essex, New Jersey Arrival date: 1858 Arrival place:

  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Ancestry.com. 1851 England Census. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1851. Data imaged from the National A;)
    Class: HO107; Piece: 2319; Folio: 445; Page: 1; GSU roll: 87542-87544.

    Birth date: abt 1837 Birth place: Leeds Residence date: 1851 Residence place: Leeds, Yorkshire, England

  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).Original data: Town and C;).

    Birth date: abt 1837 Birth place: Marriage date: 23 May 1862 Marriage place: Lawrence, Massachusetts

  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited;)
    Year: 1880; Census Place: Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: 779; Family History Film: 1254779; Page: 347C; Enumeration District: 091; Image: 0696.

    Birth date: abt 1837 Birth place: England Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, United States

  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Was;)
    Year: 1910; Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .

    Birth date: 1838 Birth place: England Residence date: 1910 Residence place: Bloomfield Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey Arrival date: 1861 Arrival place:

  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Ancestry.com. 1841 England Census. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1841. Data imaged from the National;)
    Class: HO107; Piece 1343; Book: 6; Civil Parish: Leeds; County: Yorkshire; Enumeration District: 26; Folio: 5; Page: 2; Line: 18; GSU roll: 464286.

    Birth date: abt 1836
    Birth place: Yorkshire, England
    Residence date: 1841
    Residence place: Leeds, Yorkshire, England

  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record;)
    Year: 1870; Census Place: Lawrence Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: .

    Birth date: abt 1837
    Birth place: England
    Residence date: 1870
    Residence place: Lawrence Ward 2, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Ancestry.com. Boston Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1943. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006.Original data - Boston, Massachusetts. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, 1891-1943. Micropublication T843. RG085. 454 rolls. National Archives, Washington,;).

    Birth date: abt 1837 Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Arrival date: 8 Nov 1858 Arrival place: Boston, Massachusetts Departure date: Departure place: Liverpool, England

  13. ↑ LDS. FamilySearch, International Genealogical Index (IGI).
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Ancestry.com. Boston Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1943. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006.Original data - Boston, Massachusetts. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, 1891-1943. Micropublication T843. RG085. 454 rolls. National Archives, Washington,;).

    Birth date: abt 1808 Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Arrival date: 8 Nov 1858 Arrival place: Boston, Massachusetts Departure date: Departure place: Liverpool, England

  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records;)
    Year: 1860; Census Place: Lawrence Ward 1, Essex, Massachusetts; Roll: M653_498; Page: 16; Image: 21; Family History Library Film: 803498.
  16. ↑ 1880 Federal Census. (Name: National Archives;)
    ae 43.
  17. ↑ 1870 Federal Census
    ae 33.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Social Security Death Index (1). (Name: Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.;).
  19. ↑ 1910 Federal Census. (Name: The enumeration day was 15 Apr 1910.;)
    ae 72, b. England.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 1900 Federal Census. (Name: The enumeration date was 1 Jun 1900.;).
  21. ↑ 1880 Federal Census. (Name: National Archives;).
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