4. | Thomas Pilkington was born in 1797; died in 1853 in Wakefield; was buried on 1 May 1853 in St James, Thornes, Wakefield. Other Events:
- Occupation: Waterman, lock-keeper
Notes:
Burial record containes note: "Coroner's Certificate, verdict: found drowned".
Absent in censuses, so birthplace uncertain. There is another family headed by (mariner) Thomas and Mary Pilkington in Yorkshire: she is age 66, b Wakefield, in the 1851 census with widowed son Thomas Thorp Pilkington, joiner; George Amos Pilkington, coach painter b1827, is also thought to belong to this couple.
Thomas married Mary Glover in 1821 in Broughton, nr Scunthorpe. Mary was born in 1798 in Louth, Lincolnshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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