WILKS, John I (c.1776-1854), of 3 Finsbury Square, London

b. c. 1776, s. of Rev. Matthew Wilks (d. 1829), wholesale stationer and pastor, of Old Street Road, London and Elizabeth, da. of John Shenstone of Halesowen, Staffs. m. (1) Mary (d. 26 Feb. 1814), 2s. 3da. IGI (Mdx., Staffs.); Gent. Mag. (1814), i. 412. Oxford DNB erroneously omits Wilks’s first marriage (probably to Mary Mullis at Chesham, 5 May 1797).; (2) 2 Sept. 1829, Isabella Sarah Stubbs (d. 18 Jan. 1846), s.p. LMA P76/LUK; Gent. Mag. (1846), 329; PROB 11/1752/120; 2040/552; 2198/108. d. 25 Aug. 1854.