Katie Barclay Wilkinson

WILKINSON, Katie Barclay (née Kate Johnson). b. Timperley, Cheshire, 27 August 1859; d. South Kensington, London, 28 December 1928. Using the name Katie, she married Frederick Barclay Wilkinson (1854-1937), a commercial clerk, at Altrincham in 1791. Little was known for certain about her well-spent life until Gordon Taylor unearthed details of it, as follows: she worked with girls and young women in Children’s Special Service Mission beach meetings in Colwyn Bay in North Wales (1895-98) and St Leonard’s-on-Sea on the south coast (1900-02). She raised funds for worthy causes (Barnardo’s Homes, the Church Missionary Society), and at one point during World War I (1914-1918) she and her husband...