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 1640 - Yes, date unknown

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• Birth	Abt 1640	Harewood Or Leeds, , , England
  Gender	Male
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I3365	Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2008
  Children	> 1. Francis Wilkes,   b. Abt 1679, , , , England ,   d. Abt 1723   2. Robert Wilkes,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2008
  Family ID	F1353	Group Sheet

• Notes

  The following notes were written by Pat Sherman McAllister, Middle names were once illegal in England. The old law was very definite as to the naming of children - "a man can not have two names of baptism"-Royal personages have always been allowed to have more that one given name, but as late as 1600, it is said, there were only four persons in all England who had two given names. When the Mayflower sailed for America, there was not a single man or woman on it who had a middle name. Even a century and a half ago, double names were very uncommon.