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The
Wilkey Family and related websites
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There
are a number of websites related to the Wilkey Family and its
members and this page contains some links to help connect to those
sites. The links for the above two webpages are on the navigation
bar above, whilst further related links can be found below.
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Wilkey family of Bath & London can be traced back to the early
1600's (the marriage of Richard Wilkey and Joanna Tavenor in 1622)
in the parish of St James in Taunton. This is where the traceable
family roots were first identified in particular through the name
of Tavenor Wilkey, born in 1623 to Richard and Joanna, unusual
in that the name 'Tavenor' only exists in one Wilkey family line
in the UK. The earliest known Bath family is that of Tavenor and
Ruth Wilkey (1724 onwards) who are buried in the graveyard of
All Saints Parish Church in Weston village, Bath. Moving to Bathwick
a generation later his son William and wife Mary Anne Cooper had
four children, three sons and a daughter. Two of William's sons,
Ambrose and William moved to St Pancras and Stepney where further
family roots were laid. William & Mary Anne's first born,
Richard Cooper Wilkey (christened in St Marys, Bathwick in 1819)
remained in Bath and the family has prospered in the Bath area
ever since. In the early 1900's the Stepney Wilkeys flourished
and at least two large families ensured that the family name survived.
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