Go to the top of the class, Lynne. Well spotted!! Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne Cleaver" <nj_lm@tiscali.co.uk> To: <gloucester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [GLS] Wilkins/Vizard family > Do I get a prize! I found them: > at Woodmancote, nr Dursley, > Elizabeth Wilkins 50 independent > Harriet Wilkins 20 straw hat maker > Frederick 16 > all born GLS > > Badly transcribed on Ancestry as Wolkin! and found by searching for > Frederick with no surname and keyword Dursley. > > Lynne > > On 05/09/2011 10:06, Josephine Jeremiah wrote: >> On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:47:39 +0100, Tracey Ives<traceyives@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Frederick Wilkins was born 1820 and it was thought in Gloucestershire, >>> but that now seems up for debate. >> On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:26:29 +0100, Nancy Frey<nfrey@auracom.com> wrote: >> >>> I do believe that WILKINS is a Welsh surname. Have you looked in Wales >>> for his Baptism? >> On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:47:47 +0100, Tracey Ives<traceyives@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I will keep Wales in mind and start researching around that. >> Hi Tracey, >> >> Before searching in Wales, I would explore all the WILKINS possibilities >> in Gloucestershire first. For instance, Frederick could have been a >> Quaker. I have 18th-century WILKINS ancestors who had property at >> Kingswood near Wotton-under Edge, which is not far from Dursley. >> >> Just from a quick glance at the 1851 census, there appear to be a number >> of entries for people called WILKINS who were born in the Dursley area. >> >> Perhaps someone could find Frederick WILKINS, born c. 1820, in the 1841 >> Gloucestershire census. >> >> Josephine >> > _____________________________________________ > > Gloucestershire Family History Society: > www.gfhs.org.uk > > Gloucestershire Archives: > www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=15434 > > Gloucestershire BMD Index 1837 to 2005: > http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message