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PILKIN(G)TON, Robert
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Name PILKIN(G)TON, Robert Birth 1693 Stamford St. George, Lincolnshire, England
Gender Male Death Yes, date unknown Person ID I2579 Edgoose Last Modified 3 Feb 2026
Father PILKINTON, Robert d. 1744, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
Mother TEMPLER, Elizabeth d. Bef 1704 Marriage 24 Jul 1692 Stamford St. George, Lincolnshire, England
Family ID F91 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes
ROBERT PILKIN(G)TON 1693-
Robert, son of Robert and Elizabeth PILKINGTON (sic), was baptised at Stamford St. George on 23 May 1693.
(BVRI)
A Robert PILKINGTON married Alice HAWKINS at Stamford St. John on 18 December 1715.
(FamilySearch)
Thomas BRINGHURST was apprenticed to Robert PILKINTON of Lincoln, carpenter, for 7 years from 1 May 1717. Fee £8 paid 3 May 1717. Tax of 4s. was paid on 9 July 1717.
(IR 5/152/3)
NOTES & QUERIES:
Pilkington, Robert, senior (fl. 1714-36). Carpenter.
The younger Robert became freeman in 1714 and worked for the Town between 1727 and 1736. In 1725-6 he worked at the George Hotel (239) making the S. stair in 1726"?
His father, also Robert, worked for the Town 1709-22 and did maintenance work at Browne's Hospital; he died in 1723.
(British History Online: 'Sectional Preface: List of Craftsmen', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the Town of Stamford (London, 1977), pp. lxxxiv-lxxxix http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/stamford/lxxxiv-lxxxix [accessed 26 November 2015])
Does whoever wrote the above mean that Robert PILKINGTON senior is really Robert PILKINGTON junior?

