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Joan North Wilkinson

Birth
Northamptonshire, England
Death
1556 (aged 57–58)
Germany
Burial
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Joan was born abt 1498 in Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire, England. Joan was the daughter of Roger North (1460-1509) and Christian Warcup North (1459-1515).

Joan married William Wilkinson (1481-1530) in London, England in 1518. He was the son Roger Wilkinson and unknown mother and was a high sheriff in London, England.

William and Joan North Wilkinson were parents of the following known children: Christian, Frances and Jane Wilkinson.

According to a note in ancestry.com: Joan NORTH

Born: ABT 1498, Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire, England

Died: 1556, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Notes: married William Wilkinson, a London alderman. As a widow with a house in Soper Lane in London and another at King's Stanley, Gloucestershire, Joan pursued a career as a silkwoman and served in that capacity in the household of Anne Boleynfrom 1533-1535. She embraced the evangelical beliefs of the Queen's chaplain, William Latimer; and when Latimer was apprehended in Sandwich with a shipment of banned books in 1535, he sent the books on to Joan in London. Under Mary Tudor,Joan was one of several gentlewomen who provided aid and comfort to imprisoned protestant divines. Eventually, however, she fled to the Continent and settled in Frankfurt am Main, where she died.

Father: Roger NORTH

Mother: Christian WARCUP

Married: William WILKINSON (b. 1481 - d. 1530)

Children:

1. Christian WILKINSON

2. Frances WILKINSON

3. Jane WILKINSON (d. AFT 1556)
Joan was born abt 1498 in Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire, England. Joan was the daughter of Roger North (1460-1509) and Christian Warcup North (1459-1515).

Joan married William Wilkinson (1481-1530) in London, England in 1518. He was the son Roger Wilkinson and unknown mother and was a high sheriff in London, England.

William and Joan North Wilkinson were parents of the following known children: Christian, Frances and Jane Wilkinson.

According to a note in ancestry.com: Joan NORTH

Born: ABT 1498, Walkeringham, Nottinghamshire, England

Died: 1556, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Notes: married William Wilkinson, a London alderman. As a widow with a house in Soper Lane in London and another at King's Stanley, Gloucestershire, Joan pursued a career as a silkwoman and served in that capacity in the household of Anne Boleynfrom 1533-1535. She embraced the evangelical beliefs of the Queen's chaplain, William Latimer; and when Latimer was apprehended in Sandwich with a shipment of banned books in 1535, he sent the books on to Joan in London. Under Mary Tudor,Joan was one of several gentlewomen who provided aid and comfort to imprisoned protestant divines. Eventually, however, she fled to the Continent and settled in Frankfurt am Main, where she died.

Father: Roger NORTH

Mother: Christian WARCUP

Married: William WILKINSON (b. 1481 - d. 1530)

Children:

1. Christian WILKINSON

2. Frances WILKINSON

3. Jane WILKINSON (d. AFT 1556)


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