John Wilkins (1713 - 1784)

Born 1713 in Glamorganshire, Wales

Descendants

Died 15 May 1784 at about age 71 in Glamorganshire, Wales

Biography

"JOHN WILKINS (1713 - 1784), Born 15 November 1713, deputy-protonotary from 1759 (at least) till 1784; he married SYBIL JEFFREYS, niece and heiress of WALTER JEFFREYS (died 1746), a banker, of a Llywel family. Here lay the origins of ' Wilkins and Co. ', or the ' Brecon Old Bank ' (now merged in Lloyds Bank), whose notes circulated throughout the region (including north Glamorgan) and which was deeply concerned in the early phases of its industrial development.

Three of John Wilkins's children should be noticed:

(1) WALTER WILKINS (1741 - 1828) made a fortune in India, bought Maes-llwch, Rads., and was Member of Parliament for Radnorshire, 1796-1828; his descendants assumed (1839) the name ' de Winton ';

(2) WILLIAM WILKINS, said to have been his fifth son (but this is in conflict with other statements), was deputy-protonotary, 1784-99, and protonotary from 1799 till his death in 1812;

(3) ANNE WILKINS, who married John Maybery (died 1784), son of Thomas Maybery, a Worcestershire industrialist, who in 1720 had set up iron-works at Brecon - in 1758 ' Maybery and Wilkins ' erected a furnace at Hirwaun. Their son,

Thomas Maybery (1759 - 1829), was from 1804 (at least) till 1812 deputy-protonotary to his uncle William Wilkins, and succeeded him as protonotary in 1812. His son, WALTER MAYBERY (1800 - 1862), became protonotary in 1830 and was the last protonotary of Brecknock, as the Great Sessions were abolished in October of that year."

Sources

Dictionary of Welsh Biography [1]

See Burkes Landed Gentry 18th Edition for Lineage.