With William is his 26 year old youngest daughter, Ann Maria, and his 9 year old granddaughter Ellen Amelia Wilkins. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Banns for a marriage between William Wilkins and Ann Amelia Green were read in the St James’s Parish Church, Great Ellingham on the 5th, 12th and 19th March, 1865. The only daughter of Annie Wilkins’ late sister Ellen Elizabeth Wilkins, Ellen Amelia was five years old when her mother died in 1907. In 1954, Annie Wilkins, a sixty-three-year-old farmer from Maine, embarked on an impossible journey.Material from the Associated Press is Copyright © 2024, Associated Press and may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in.

Two new books tell true stories of long-distance travelers – women who were determined and moving with purpose – who wouldn’t let obstacles stand in their way.

One of the most unique examples of a cross-country voyage occurred in the 1950s when a 63-year-old woman who had just been diagnosed with a terminal illness rode 7,000 miles coast to coast on her horses with no other company except for her dog. The Wilkins family is one of a few families who can trace their ancestors for several generations in Great Ellingham. The subject matter, often of particular interest to local historians, includes nature, history, mythology, legend, events of the day at home and abroad, and milestones in the lives of all sorts and conditions of men.