Individual Details

Wilkinson seen as her surname ...no proof.

On the 6 June 1635 passenger list of the Thomas & John, bound from London to Virginia, are Edward Dix, aged 19, and Jane Wilkinson, aged 20 (at different positions in a list of 105 names) [Hotten 83-85]. This Edward Dix has been identified by some as the immigrant to New England, and Jane Wilkinson as his first wife Jane. There are several arguments against these claims. In the first place, there are only one or two instances in which persons listed as sailing for Virginia in 1635 later appeared in New England, and these are well documented. Second, Edward Dix of Boston and Watertown was admitted to freemanship on 4 March 1634/5, and he must have been in New England for this to occur; but the passenger of 6 June 1635 could not have been in New England on the previous 4 March, and in any case could not have been made free if he were only nineteen. Therefore there is no evidence that the Jane who is the wife of this Edward Dix is Jane Wilkinson. There is enough evidence to be secure that This Edward Dix is not the one who sailed in 1634/35, but instead the Edward Deekes/Dix who is listed as a passenger with the Winthrop Fleet of 1630 and that the surname of his wife Jane cannot be ascertained.

Birth	1615
Death	18 Feb 1642	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Spouse	EDWARD Dix (1610 - 1660)
Child	ABIGAIL Dix (1637 - 1690)
Child	Mary Dix (1639 - 1675)
Child	John Dix (1640 - 1714)
Child	Rebecca Dix (1641 - )
Child	Living