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. Her parents were Elizabeth (Edwards) and Abraham Wilkinson; they married at St. Martin Outwich, London, on 18 Nov. 1742. Nothing is known about her early life or education. Her mother died in 1769 at Stoke Newington and by the terms of her will left Rebecca £3000. She became a Dissenter and was 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 on 3 Jan. 1829; the burial record gives her age as 75. (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, 29 Dec. 2025) SR