Author: Wilkinson, Rebecca
Biography:
WILKINSON, Rebecca (1752?-1828: ancestry.co.uk)
She is said to have been born in Dublin in 1753 but no record has been located. There was a Rebecca Wilkinson baptised in London in 1752 and, given that her parents were married in London, it is possible this is her. Her parents were Elizabeth (Edwards) and Abraham Wilkinson. Nothing is known about her early life or education, but she was a Dissenter and became a member of Samuel Stennett’s Baptist congregation in Little Wild Street. Her will left money to the Religious Tract Society and the Sunday School Union. She left her shares in the Lincolnshire Canal Company and the English Copper Company to her brother, Abraham. She died in Clapham in December 1828 and was buried in Bunhill Fields burial ground. (D. W. Music and P. A. Richardson, “I will Sing the Wondrous Music”: A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America [2008]; ancestry.co.uk 16 Dec. 2020) SR