When Margaret Wilkie was born on 5 April 1719, in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Mathew Wilkie, was 35 and her mother, Margaret Rodgers, was 36. She had at least 4 sons and 2 daughters with John Chapman.
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Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Wilky, a shortened form of Wilkin , itself a pet form of William .
Americanized form of German Wilke , written thus to preserve the final syllable.
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