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Robert Wilkinson is a native of Belfast, Ireland, and was born April 19, 1823. He is one of the children of George and Sarah Wilkinson, who were also natives of Ireland. The former was born at Mount Millie in 1780, married at Belfast, and emigrated to Canada, where he and wife died. They had a family of eleven children -Mary E., Jane, Thomas, John, Samuel, Robert, Sarah, George, Deborah and two infants who died unnamed. Our subject, Robert Wilkinson, in youth learned the trade of blacksmithing, which he followed a number of years. While in Canada, May 7, 1845, he married Miss Ann, daughter of Robert L. and Ann Drake, and in 1868, moved to Kentland, Indiana, and the following spring to York Township, Benton County. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson have had a family of eight children -Sarah A., George, Robert M., Amelia H. B., Mary A., John A.,, Thomas W. and Charles E. Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/in/state/benton_co/wilkinson_robert.htm

Robert married DRAKE, Miss Ann on 7 May 1845. Miss was born about 1840. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. WILKINSON, Thomas William was born on 6 Mar 1861 in Benton County, Indiana; died about Apr 1927.