John (II) Wilkinson was born on 5 August 1810[1] and was christened on 4th Nov 1810 at St John's (Anglican) Church, Parramatta, by the Reverend Samuel Marsden.[2][3]
John's father John (I) Wilkinson married Ann Downes in 1815; what happened to John's mother Sarah is not known. John (I) died in March 1818 when John (II) was aged about 7½. In July 1818, His step-mother Ann married Robert Foulcher, a blacksmith, but it would seem that the resources of the couple were limited, as on 1st January 1819 she (in her new married name of Ann Foulcher) committed her step-son to an orphan school.[4] John appeared in the records during his time there on two matters: "Complaint of ill usage at Male Orphan Institution", and "ordered to land boats & take boats to Kissing Point". Both entries in the Index of the Colonial Secretary's Papers are dated 22 August 1822.[5]
However after John had spent seven years and eight months at the Orphan School, Ann and her husband Robert wrote the following letter:
Parramatta 30th Aug 1826
Sir,
We, the undersigned, do hereby Certify, that John Wilkinson, a Boy in the Male Orphan House, at Liverpool, to be our Son in law, and that owing to its having been intimated to us that several of those Children were about to be placed out to Masters to learn Trades have in consequence been induced to make this application for our Boy for the purpose of his Father teaching him his Busineſs / a Blacksmith / and who is much inconvenienced for the want of a Lad, humbly trusting, Sir, you will do us the kind Act of representing the same to the Gentlemen of the above Institution at their first meeting,
By so doing, you will
Confer a lasting obligation
on Your Most Obdt & Very
Humble Servants,
Robert Foulcher
Ann Foulcher[6]
John John Wilkinson(II) Wilkinson married Esther Byrnes on 20th August 1832, also at St John's Church, Parramatta. The marriage was performed by the Reverend Samuel Marsden.[7]
John passed away in 1863[8] and his remains are buried at St Mark's Anglican Cemetery, Greendale NSW.[9][10] St Mark's Burials Register records his occupation as being a Farmer.[11] The church was sold in 1980 and converted to a private residence. After the sale, all the churchyard's headstones but one were removed and the cemetery where John and other early settlers are buried is now a lawn.[12]
See also: Australia Royalty website: John Wilkinson, 1810–1863
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Categories: St Mark's Anglican Church Graveyard, Greendale, New South Wales
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