Person:William Wilkes (18)

William Wilkes

b.Bef 1608

d.Est 12 Jan 1645/46 England

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m. Bef 1633

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]	William Wilkes
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Bef 1608	Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage	Bef 1633	to Joan Unknown
Emigration^[1]	1633
Residence^[1]	1633	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Residence^[1]	1639	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Death^[1]	Est 12 Jan 1645/46	England

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 William Wilkes, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
3:1989-91.

ORIGIN: Unknown.
RETURN TRIPS: To England about 1644
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to New Haven church by 1639 implied by freemanship [NHCR 1:17].
FREEMAN: Signed New Haven compact of 4 June 1639 [NHCR 1:17].
DEATH: On 12 January 1645/6 Joan Wilkes did not know whether her husband was living. Presumably he died in England at about this time.
↑ William Wilkes, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
4:550.

William (Wilkes), Boston 1633, had w. Joan, wh. join. our ch. 9 Feb. 1634. He rem. to New Haven, prob. with Gov. Eaton, and aft. few yrs. went home, a. 1644, as is kn. by the will of his w. 12 Jan. 1646, "call. to go to her h. but not knowing whether he be liv. or not," embark. that mo. for London, in the ill-fated sh. with Grigson, Lamberton and others. She left ho. ld. and goods to pay her legacies. Her inv. is of 11 Jan. 1647.