Brief Life History of John
When John Wilks was christened on 3 January 1779, in Lindsell, Essex, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Edward Wilks, was 27 and his mother, Mary Tilson, was 23.
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- John Wilks, "England, Essex Parish Registers, 1538-1997"
- John Wilks - MyHeritage Family Trees - MyHeritage
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1801 · The Act of Union
The Act of Union was a legislative agreement which united England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom on January 1, 1801.
1808 · The British West Africa Squadron
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and West Midlands): variant of Wilkes 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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