Frederick Douglas Wilkinson, Sr. ^

1829 - 1874  (45 years)

• Name	Frederick Douglas Wilkinson  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	Sr. ^
  Birth	13 Aug 1829	England   [4, 5, 6]
  Christening	4 Sep 1829	Ebenezer-Independent,Ramsgate,Kent,England
  Gender	Male
  Name	Frederick S. Wilkinson  [7]
  Burial	1874
  Death	6 Nov 1874	at sea   [7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  	Cause: He was lost at sea. He was Captain of the brig Hesperian, engaged in the transport of lum
  Person ID	I186	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Jeptha Avery Wilkinson, Sr. ^,   b. 23 Apr 1791, Cumberland, Providence, RI d. Abt Jan 1874, Brooklyn, Kings, NY (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Sarah Holden Gibson, ^,   b. Abt 1793, of Paris, Seine, France d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1828	Kent, England
  Family ID	F92	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Hawkins, ^,   b. 8 Sep 1835, South Haven Suffolk N Y d. 19 Apr 1907, Eureka, Humboldt, California (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	16 Aug 1845  [12, 13]
  Children	1. Frank C. Wilkinson,   b. 19 Jul 1864, Eureka, Humboldt, California d. 7 Aug 1926, Eureka, Humboldt, California (Age 62 years)   2. Frederick Douglas Wilkinson, Jr. ^,   b. 9 May 1858, New York, United States d. 7 Nov 1922, Eureka, Humboldt, California, United States (Age 64 years)   3. Elizabeth B. Wilkinson, <,   b. Jan 1862, CA d. Yes, date unknown   4. William C. Wilkinson, <,   b. 19 Jul 1864, Eureka, Humboldt, CA d. 7 Aug 1926, Eureka, Humboldt, CA (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F93	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D., p. 114. Age 21 NY. [S89] International Genealogical Index: Individual Record (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), 13 AUG 1829 London, London, England. [S2] Ralph Clymer Hawkins, 1897- ., A Hawkins genealogy, 1635-1939 : record of the descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (Baltimore : Published for the Hawkins Association by Gateway Press, 1987), p. 79. [S8] Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D., p. 114. Age 21, NY. [S89] International Genealogical Index: Individual Record (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), 13 AUG 1829 London, London, England. [S3] Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National, Census Place: Brooklyn Ward 15 District 2, Kings, New York; Roll: M653_773; Page: 145; Image: 537. [S2] Ralph Clymer Hawkins, 1897- ., A Hawkins genealogy, 1635-1939 : record of the descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (Baltimore : Published for the Hawkins Association by Gateway Press, 1987), p. 138. [S146] Marsha Daly, Eureka, California, [e-mail for private use], to John Deitz, email, , ","; privately held [e-mail & address for private use]., David Hawkins Cemetery; 5 April 2011. Elizabeth Hawkins is here [Eureka, CA]. She and her sea captain husband left New York and came to Eureka, Humboldt, California. Frederick was captain of the Hesperian a lumber schooner owned by William Carson, "another part of my family" Elizabeth and their three children often traveled with him. On a trip to southern Calif. Frederick was hit by the boom of the ship and knocked overboard. He was never found. Elizabeth and her three children returned to Eureka. She later married a Mr.Fay who had a shipyard. After his death she returned to the name of Wilkinson, and lived in Eureka until her death in 1907. Elizabeth Hawkins burial place is here at Myrtle Grove Cemetery. Sadly there is no marker, and I do not even know what part of the cemetery she is in! The records have been lost. There is no memorial marker for her husband Frederick Douglas Wilkinson who died at sea Nov. 6, 1874. [S142] Rev. Israel Wilkinson, A.M., Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America (Jacksonville, Ill. (Excerpts available at http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bbunce77/Wilkinson001.html. A complete copy is available at http://content.ancestry.com, p. 249. Captain Frederick D. Wilkenson was still living when Rev. Wilkinson wrote. [S47] Suffolk County, NY, Suffolk County Deeds, ; Office of the County Clerk, Riverhead, NY., Liber 2395, Page 342; Affidavit of Title, Harriet T. Hohenhausen to Maurice Wertheim.; 6 October 1944. "Frederick Wilkinson resided in California and was lost at sea, probably in the 1870's and his heirs were the grantors under a certain Deed recorded in Liber 321, CP. 116 in Suffolk County Clerk's Office." This Affidavit includes family relationships and titles from Jeptha Wilkinson to Harriet T. Hohenhausen. [S147] Humbolldt Times under the auspices and direction of the Supervisors of Humboldt County, Humboldt County Souvenir: Being a Frank, Fair and Accurate Exposition, Pictorially and Otherwise of the Resources, Industries and Possibilities of this Magnificant, Accessed; 27 September 2010; p. 186. ".. and the old brig Hesperian, from which Captain Wilkinson was lost. This was one of the best known vessels on the coast. She was built by E. & H. Cousins in the sixties." [S142] Rev. Israel Wilkinson, A.M., Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America (Jacksonville, Ill. (Excerpts available at http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bbunce77/Wilkinson001.html. A complete copy is available at http://content.ancestry.com, p. 249. [S2] Ralph Clymer Hawkins, 1897- ., A Hawkins genealogy, 1635-1939 : record of the descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (Baltimore : Published for the Hawkins Association by Gateway Press, 1987), p. 79, 138.