Mourning Stockton Wilkey
Birth: 1750
Albemarle County
Virginia, USA
Death: unknown
Wilkes County
North Carolina, USA
Mourning Stockton was a daughter of Richard and Agnes Stockton, and a granddaughter of Davis Stockton of Albemarle County, Virginia. She might have been born about 1750. She is thought to have married Alexander Wilkey.
She is now sometimes shown as Susan or Susannah Mourning Stockton Wilkey, but she is not known to have ever used the name Susan or Susannah.
There are 8 references to Mourning Wilkey in Wilkes County, North Carolina. There are no references to a Susan or Susannah Mourning Wilkey.
The last name is sometimes spelled as "Wilkens" or "Wilkins", but these are all Mourning (nee Stockton) Wilkey:
1787 tax list Mourning Wilkey (4 females 1 underage male)
1788 court 'case for words' Mourning Wilkey vs. Leonard Miller and wife.
1790 census Wilkes County, North Carolina, Mourning Wilkey (2 females 1 underage male)
1795 Joseph Herndon deed referred to as "near Mourning Wilkey's line"
1795 Charles Gordon entry "near line of Francis Reynolds where Mourning Wilkey lives"
1795 Francis Reynolds entry "near my improvement where Mourning Wilkey lives"
1799 Joseph Herndon dec'd list of estate buyers includes Mourning Wilkey
1800 census Wilkes County, North Carolina, Morning Wilkins
It is not clear who the children of Mourning were and who were the grandchildren of Mourning (nee Stockton) Wilkey were.
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