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Monday, July 18, 2011
Joseph Wilkinson biography
Written by his daughter, Martha Ann Wilkinson Mills
December 10, 1946
Joseph Wilkinson, the seventh child of Charles Wilkinson, and Sarah Mercer was born at Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 22 August 1849.
The Father, Charles and his eldest son, William Charles, left Liverpool, England, 3 June 1856 on the ship "Wellfleet." They arrived at Boston 13 July 1856 (Church Emigration, Vol. 2, Journal History of Church 1851-1856). They came to prepare the way for their family that were to follow later.
Joseph, his Mother, three brothers, and five sisters set sail from Liverpool, England, 4 August 1857 for America. (Original Bradford Records in Church Historians office). They crossed the ocean in a mere sailing vessel called the "Margaret Tyson," (according to family tradition, John, who was thirteen years old at the time, remembers the name of the ship as "Margaret Tyson." Andrew Jensen, Church Historian, records a miscellaneous vessel crossed in fall of 1857. That may have been the "Margaret Tyson.") It took nine weeks to make the voyage.
Upon arrival in America, the family went to Lawrence, Massachusetts. Here, those who were old enough obtained work in the cloth factories to earn a livelihood and get money enough to continue their journey westward.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
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