William Wilkinson, II

Joan North married William Wilkinson, a wealthy London Sheriff and alderman who served on three occasions as Warden of the Mercers' Company.

They had 3 daughters:

1. Christian Wilkinson, who married William Bury of Culham, Oxfordshire, by whom she had four children.
2. Frances Wilkinson, who married a London mercer, Leonard Hetherington (d.1556), by whom she had several children.
3. Jane Wilkinson (d.1571), who was the first wife of Michael Lok, by whom she had several children.

Notes

• OCCUPATION: Mercer.
• DISTINCTION: Citizen of London.
• OFFICE: Sheriff, 1538.
• PROBATE: Will 1543 [PCC:27 Spert].

Citations

1. Boyd's 'Citizens of London' record no. 30388

Sources

1. The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578 By Anne F. Sutton. Page 393.

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• Book of the Lockes : A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of William Locke, of Woburn ... (1853) By John Goodwin Locke
• https://archive.org/details/bookoflockesgene00lock
• https://archive.org/stream/bookoflockesgene00lock#page/358/mode/1up
  • CHART
• .... etc.
• Michael, of London, merchant. 2. m. Margery Peryn, wid. of Caesar Dalmarias, fa. of Sir Julius Caesar, Knt. = 1. Jane, dau. of William Wilkinson, mercer, and Shr. of London.; = ch: Matthew, Eleaser, Benjamin, Zachary, dau (m. Wm. Sanson), dau. (m. _ Jenney) Locke.
• .... etc. ____________________________
• A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558 By Vincent Gillespie, Susan Powell
• https://books.google.com/books?id=j7fCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&d...
• Pg.132
• .... Among these were a letter from Cranmer to Joan Wilkinson, silkwoman and widow of the mercer William Wilkinson (d.1543), urging her to leave England, and another of farewell from Hugh Latimer. She had visited Cranmer, Hooper, Latimer and Ridley while they were in prison, and she died in exile during Mary's reign. In her will Joan left all her books, of which John Hooper (burnt 1555) had had the use in his life, to Richard Chamber 'to the proift of Christ's church', one small aspect of her corncern for the exiled protestant communities in Germany and Switzerland. .... etc. _______________
• Reference: PROB 11/29/489
• Description: Will of William Wylkynson, Mercer of City of London
• Date: 22 November 1543
• Held by: The National Archives, Kew
• Legal status: Public Record
• Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
• From: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D950432 _________________________________
• Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Wilkinson_(died_1556)_
• http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I48843&tree=...
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lok
• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/no...
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/NORTH.htm#Joan NORTH1

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