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William Stilwell
about 1844 – 1878
William H. Stilwell was born in New Jersey about 1844, a son of Henry Stilwell and Cornelia Brokaw, and was at home at Franklin Township in the 1850 census. He married Rebecca Rooks and their son George was born in 1873. William died in 1878, and the boy was taken in and adopted by William's sister Jane and her husband George Liddell at Perth Amboy. From the volunteer-written biography on Cornelia Brokaw's Find a Grave memorial (src-951), not from a record this archive has read. Recorded so it can be tested.
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William H. Stilwell was born in New Jersey about 1844, a son of Henry Stilwell and Cornelia Brokaw, and was at home at Franklin Township in the 1850 census. He married Rebecca Rooks and their son George was born in 1873. William died in 1878, and the boy was taken in and adopted by William's sister Jane and her husband George Liddell at Perth Amboy. From the volunteer-written biography on Cornelia Brokaw's Find a Grave memorial (src-951), not from a record this archive has read. Recorded so it can be tested.
Born at New Jersey
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How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s spouse's great-great-great-grandparent's sibling (by marriage)
Gina D. Cacace’s great-great-great-grandparent's sibling
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Life
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Family
Parents
Siblings · birth order
- Nicholas Stilwell
- Jane Stilwell
- Alice M. Stilwell
- Cornelia Stilwell
- Julia Stilwell
- William Stilwell (this person)
- Leah Adelaine Stillwell
- Sarah Stilwell
- Melina Stilwell
- Simon Stilwell
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- New Jersey
- Somerset, Somerset County, New Jersey
- Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
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Record exhibit
Henry Stilwell household, 1850 census, Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
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What we still don't know
- Everything after 1850. The 1860 census for this household is the obvious next step and would carry the whole family forward.
- Cornelia the daughter shares her mother's name, so any later record has to be tested against both.
- [CHECKABLE, AND NOT YET CHECKED] The memorial biography names specific censuses for this person in specific towns. Each one is an ordinary indexed record and can be confirmed in a single search — the attempt was cut short on 9 August 2026 when the FamilySearch session expired. Until then everything here from that biography stands as uncertain.