Wilkin Family Page

	This the family history page for the Wilkin family in the West Indies. The family originally came from Middlesborough in North England. This site is dedicated to the exchange of information about this family.	Montserrat is located between the islands of Antigua and Guadeloupe. The island, 39 sq miles in area, is mountainous, rising to the peak of the Soufriere Hills volcano (about 3000ft). After centuries of lying dormant, the volcano rumbled back into activity in 1995 with minor eruptions that continued through 1996. The volcano erupted violently on several occasions in 1997, killing19 people in June and covering the southern portion of Montserrat with fiery gas, rocks, and ash on a number of occasions. The capital, Plymouth, was destroyed, along with many of the island's historical records. The island was sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1493 and was named by him after a monastery on Montserrat, a mountain in Spain. Settled by the English and Irish in 1632, the island was held by the French for four years in the1660s and again from 1782 to 1783, when it returned to British control. From 1871 to 1956 Montserrat was part of the Federation of the Leeward Islands, and in 1958 it became a member of the Federation of the West Indies. Following the dissolution of the federation in 1962, the inhabitants of the island voted to remain a dependency of Great Britain.
Emily Wilkin 1869 -1932		The Wilkin family lived on various islands but mostly on Montserrat. Click for map
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William Wilkin (s) b.1810 came from England in 1835 and in 1851 married Sarah Evelina Tucker who was born in 1832 in Antigua. William died in 1883 and Sarah in 1904...both in Montserrat. William's family originally came from Middlesborough in England.

William came to Montserrat  with his friend Thomas Masters Howes (a Yorkshire doctor) to sell ploughs. The story goes that one day in  Yorkshire, Thomas was walking on a country road when a lady in a trap passed with runaway horse. Thomas stopped the horse and saved the lady. Her husband, a Mr Johnson was so grateful to Howes for saving his wife’s life that he offered Howes a job as a manager of his estate (Roches) in Montserrat. So Thomas Masters Howes and Wm.H Wilkin I [and a Francis] came to Montserrat in 1835.

And so it was that William came to live in the West Indies and marry SarahTucker. The children of William and Sarah were: Eva Mary, Ada Ann, Laura, Margaret, William Henry, York and Emily.

Eva Mary Wilkin(b 30 April 1852): Eva became a well known artist in Nevis.

Ada Ann Wilkin(1853-1923): Ada maried King P Penchoen and their daughter married Charles Martin. They had three children Maud, Sidney and Margot.

Laura Wilkin(1855-1920): Laura married Seymour Howes who was also a plantation owner and this was most likely because he and Laura inherited most of William Henry's estate (Gages and Dagenham estates). Harry Howes, their son, was a well known plantation owner in Montserrat. His children were (1) Laura (Loz) who married Bill Sandford. Their daughter Janet married a Mr Reynolds and has a son James. (2)Daphne m. Comacho, daughter Gillian. (3) Jackie, children Dillis and Penny. (4) June m. Murphy. (5) Lillian m. Moore, children Simon, Tina and Tim. Lillian lived in Ealing (West London) now in Bath.

Margaret Wilkin(1861-1951): Maggie married Mr Walsh and they had one daughter Reina (1895-1965). No further information

William Henry Wilkin (1863-1931): William was a plantation owner. William was never married but he had adaughter by an estate worker. This was Violet Amanda Wilkin and she was born around 1888. Violet married Edmund Burke.....both died in 1950. Violet's children were Mary and John Burke.Mary's daughter is Jane Grell (Violet Jane). Mary Burke is currently living in a senior citizens home in Montserrat. John Burke died early (1961?) and his English wife took their four children back to England. Two of the children are Jennifer Levy and Margaret and both married military personnel and currently live in the U.S. Jane is a librarian (since 1974) worked in Montserrat until 1997 when she took up a contract with the Government of Anguilla where she currently lives.

Now there is a Rose Wilkin who Jane knew as an elder in Montserrat and Jane thinks that she may also have been a daughter of William Henry and that Rose's mother was from Dominica.

York Wilkin (1861-1950): York was also a plantation owner and he married Annie Humphries in 1893. They had four children, Dorothy, Ruth, Eva and Bill. Allanah Brown records that another son was Dr. Arthur Edmond Wilkin who was born in 1888 in Montserrat and there are two descendants, Calvin Wilkin and Imelda.

Dorothy married Hilton Hutchinson and they had two children, William Haynes Hilton and June Rosemary Anne. William had one daughter, Anna Ruth Rosemary.

Emily Wilkin (16 August 1869-1932): Emily married Manserge Pace DUKE. Their children were: (1) Elmina, (2) Manserge Val, (3) Oriel (Konks), (4) Sybil (m. Rev Bolton), (5)Aileen (m. Gall), (6) William, (7) Ismay (m. Winter), (8) Rawson,(9) Sarah (m.Hardy), (10) Manserge Pace (Toony), (11) Basil

Manserge 's (2) daughter Angela married Eric Inglesby and they had three children- Richard, Kate and David.

Sybil had three children, Peggy (m. Clayton), Rosemary (m. Warren) and Michael. Peggy's children are Ian, Mike and Doon. Rosemary's children are Francis, Patrick, Melanie and Tim.

Aileen had two daughters Cynthia and Clara (m.Michael O'Carroll) who had two children Gillian and David.

Ismay had a daughter Ann (lives in Canada)

Sarah had a daughter Betty (m. Verdery) who had three children, Katherine, David and Margaret.