The Children of Richard and Amelia Wilkinson At the time of the 1861 Census Mahala Wilkinson had married John Blenkhorn (19 Feb 1859) and they were living in Osmotherley with Jane (aged 2), the first of 12 children. Mary Wilkinson - not found in 1841, 1851 or 1861 Censuses. There is increasing evidence that Mary was Mahala. Baptism records for Mary, none for Mahala. Same birth year. No Mary in 1841 Census. No death found for Mary between 1836 and 1841. In 1851 William Frankland Wilkinson, aged 12, was working as an agricultural labourer on a farm in Landmoth-cum-Catto which is 5 miles southwest of Osmotherley. He married Mary Ann Clapham (20 Nov 1858) in Foxton. They had a daughter Elizabeth in 1860 and at the time of the 1861 Census the family were living with Mary Ann’s grandmother (aged 95) and mother in Foxton Lane, Kirby Sigston. They had a total of five children. William died in Kirby Sigston in 1927. Morton Chapman Wilkinson, aged 16, was working as a ploughboy on a farm near Stokesley in 1861. He married Margaret Sophia Smithson (26 May 1869) and was working as a miner and living in Brotton, Guisborough in 1871. They had a son John William Wilkinson in 1872. An on-line family tree has John William moving to Australia but this may be untrue. There was at least one other John William Wilkinson born around 1871/2 in Guisborough. To be investigated. Joseph Wilkinson appears in the 1861 Census as the 'Adopted son' of 83 year old Ann Taylor, living at 11 Corner End, Osmotherley. He then goes on to marry Zillah Alexander in York in 1869. He worked as a blacksmith in the Leeds/Wakefield area. At the time of the 1861 Census Jane Elizabeth Wilkinson, aged 13, b Osmotherly, was a farm servant to William Monkman (a farmer with 43 acres) in Kirby in Cleveland. She married George Johnson on 27 Mar 1869 in Stockton-on-Tees. John Wilkinson was a scholar (aged 9) living with his aunt (his mother’s sister) Jane Frankland in Church St, Swainby in 1861. Jane had married Joseph Hugill in Whitby in 1826. Joseph, aged 54, was working as a stone cutter.