Mary Wilkinson (N.N.) - Found this on Ancestry.

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5/7/2023 at 12:12 PM

1 Mary Lady York Duchess PLANTAGENET: B: Abt 1449. D: Abt 1491
+ Thomas Sir WILKINSON: B: 1445. D: 1478
2 Robert WILKINSON: B: 1475. D: 1515
+ Genesis Wilkinson: B: 1470. D: 1555
3 John WILKINSON: B: 1485. D: 1 Oct 1556
+ Elizabeth Snell: B: 1485. D: 1 Oct 1556
4 Robert Wilkinson: B: 1512. D: Jun 1576
+ Margaret Smith: B: 1507. D: Jan 1564
5 Thomas Wilkinson: B: 1550. D: 12 May 1603
+ Isabel Hershey: B: 1552. D: 1623
6 Gabriel Wilkinson: B: 1576. D: 17 Dec 1658
6 George Wilkinson: B: 8 Mar 1590. D: 1700
5 William Wilkinson: B: 1559. D: 1633
5 Rebecca Wilkinson: B: 1561. D: 1634
5 Isabel Wilkinson: B: 1571.
5 Mary Wilkinson: B: 12 Dec 1840.
5 Anne Wilkinson: B: 24 Apr 1843.
5 Robert Wilkinson: B: 28 Nov 1847. D: 20 May 1922
5 John Wilkinson: D: Nov 1623
5 Person Not Viewable
5 Elizabeth Wilkinson: D: Mar 1566
3 Dorathe Wilkinson: B: 1506.
3 Ursula Wilkinson: B: 1508.
3 Frances Wilkinson: B: 1510.
3 Jennet Wilkinson: B: 1512. D: 6 May 1552
3 Thomas Wilkinson: B: 7 Feb 1830. D: 26 Feb 1888

Private User

5/7/2023 at 1:19 PM

At the top of the tree, the Robert Wilkinson entry sounds ok, and his parents may well have been Thomas and Mary. However, the only Duchess of York named Mary lived 200 years later; I have also seen that in some of the family web trees Thomas Wilkinson is called Duke of York; no Wilkinson was ever Duke of York. No Mary in the Plantagenet line has those dates; none married a Wilkinson.

At some point, somebody either made a hopeful jump, or misread something, and now that is all across the web in family trees, but always either unsourced or giving other web trees as sources.

Private User

5/7/2023 at 1:37 PM

Private User -- I see the screen shot of the message on Ancestry that you've attached to Mary, the wife of Thomas Wilkinson. It's supposition, of course; but I see that there is an assumption that Mary is indeed called a Plantagenet. There aren't any sources for this, however -- at this time the records that churches would later keep, of births and weddings and burials, were not kept. So one would be looking for other documents that showed that she used that last name.

If you find references to any of those, please let us know! Many thanks.

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5/7/2023 at 4:39 PM

Thanks for the response. I think the "Duchess of York" thing was done by someone who conflated the two Mary Plantagenets. I've also seen "Mary / Margaret Plantagenet". so I think someone saw "Margaret of York, *Duchess* of Burgundy" and say a "Mary, Duchess of York", added the Duchess part and ran with it. If you don't see Mary in the context of all her supposed siblings (and most trees do not include them) it would be very easy to make this mistake. Of particular note which again, is only speculative, is that there is an "Ursula Wilkinson" a few generations later. Ursala is not a terribly common name and there *was* a legitimate Ursala Plantagenet so that's interesting.

Mary Wilkinson (N.N.) - Found this on Ancestry.

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