William Farley Wilkinson (1837 - 1913)

Born 25 May 1837 in Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Eliza (Bedingfield) Wilkinson — married 21 Nov 1868 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

Died 24 Apr 1913 at age 75 in Great Easton, Uppingham, England

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Biography

Scholar Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1859. He was ordained deacon in 1863 and priest in 1865. Precentor Manchester Cathedral 1862. Ordained 1865, Vicar/Rector of Glinton, Norfolk, 1875 to 1893. in 1866 he was curate of st. Stephens, Shepherds Bush. In 1868 he was made a minor canon of Peterborough. In 1875 he became Rector of Glinton. He had a noted good voice, funding the Peterborough Choral Society. ^[1] In 1911 he was living in Great Easton Vicarage, near Uppingham, Rutland as a widower. Also in his household is his daughter Florence Mary, born in or near Peterborough in 1870 and unmarried in 1911.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Obituary published in the Peterborough and Hunts Standard 26 April 1913
2. ↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7JS-F6Y : 23 July 2019), William Farley Wilkinson, Uppingham, Rutland, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.

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Inscription on base of a pair of silver candlesticks in my possession