After eight years, on and off, researching Wilcocksons, it’s still hard to believe that so many Americans and Brits owe their existence to two Quakers (Cossall John and his son George) whose roots lie in the remote soil of Biggin by Hulland in Derbyshire.
Blog-readers new to the Boonie Wilcockson story undoubtedly want solid proof that 1720 John who married Sarah Boone was born to Quaker George from Biggin (and not Wales, or any other location that’s been proposed over decades of speculation).
So it seems logical to open the data-store here on this blog with the tale of how we discovered the proof of 1720 John’s origins.
In February 2017, I wrote a Case Study for Chesterfield & District Family History Society setting out the Boonie Wilcockson research strategy and the findings made, alongside results of Y-DNA testing. This included an appendix supplying the direct lineage of Quaker George back to his brickwall ancestors, John Wilcockson (who died in 1610, so is known as ‘1610 John’) and his wife Ann.
More research has been done in 2019 so I have updated the Case Study and compiled transcripts of the key sources that it mentions (marked in red). You can find these documents here:
Sources for Wilcockson Case Study
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Wilcocksons Unwrapped 