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Jenkins Name Study

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About the Project

The Jenkins Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Jenkins name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Jenkins name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Jenkins's), by time period (18th Century Jenkins's), or by topic (Jenkins DNA, Jenkins Occupations, Jenkins Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

Name Origins

According to Wikipedia[[1]], the Jenkins surname originated in Cornwall and became popular in Wales. It frequently meant "little John" or "son of John." Its earliest detection appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 but is thought to predate the Norman Conquest.

How to Join

To join the Jenkins Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Kevin Cross for assistance.

... ... ... is a member of the Jenkins Name Study Project.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

{{Member|ONS|name=Jenkins}}

What Can You Do?

  1. Add the Jenkins template to all of the Jenkins profiles which you manage. [If you add the template it will automatically add the category.]
  2. Add sources to a Jenkins profile.
  3. Connect unconnected Jenkins profiles to the main tree.
  4. Increase the CC7 counts of Jenkins profiles.

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

Membership

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

Surname Variations

  • Jikins (misspelled on gravestone)
  • Jenkin
  • Jankins
  • Jenkynn
  • Jenkynns
  • Siencyn – a Welsh variation – John is sometimes spelled Zhahn, Sion and Sien
  • Jenkyns
  • Jinkines
  • Jinkins
  • Jenken
  • Jenkens
  • Jenniskens
  • Junkins
  • Junkin
  • Jinkens

Related Surnames

  • Bonds
  • Lusk
  • Monk
  • Harless
  • Reidinger
  • Reaves
  • Chandler
  • Bunn
  • Allison
  • Parker




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Jenkins-761 Dave Jenkins
Seeking information on Richard Jenkin(s) one of the servants of Nicholas Butler (abt.1598-1671) who traveled with his family (Butler's) from Sandwich, Kent, England on the ship "Hercules" in May/June, 1637. Nicholas originally settled in Dorchester, MBC then removed to Martha's Vineyard. I have found no colonial Mass. records for Richard. There is a will of a Richard Jenkin referenced in a 1657 court case in Kent(?), England. The will was at Canterbury, Kent, England and says Richard's son Richard was 10 yrs since in New England. (Chanc. Deps. b/4 1714, 634/17.). This reference had indicated no date for the will.

Note: The immigrant Edward Jenkins (abt.1617-1699) was also a servant (for Nathaniel Tilden) who emigrated from the Kent area of England and traveled on the "Hercules" in 1635 from Sandwich. Edward's profile was elevated enough to be chronicled in Anderson's The Great Migration Series. No such luck for Richard.

Also: A Peter Jenkins removed to Martha's Vineyard around 1675 from Rowley, Mass. Bay Colony. He had a family of at least 4 children and died probably prior to 1707.

There were other Richard Jenkins of Mass. Bay Colony / Rhode Island in the 1650-1700 time frame with no apparent Wikitree profiles. Thank you.

D. Jenkins

posted by Dave Jenkins
edited by Dave Jenkins
Cross-14061 Kevin Cross
I have not read the whole article so I cannot say whether it is the Richard Jenkins that came over with Nicholas Butler or not, but this article of JSTOR (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1925148?read-now=1&seq=30#page_scan_tab_contents) does mention Nicholas Butler. In footnote number 76, it mentions a Richard Jenkins who had died in 1641 that was listed as "deceased abroad" in the Prerogative Court of

Canterbury records. I'm not sure if this is the same Richard Jenkins that you are looking for, but it is what I have come across.

I will also send this in a private message in case you don't check the page.

posted by Kevin Cross
Jenkins-761 Dave Jenkins
Kevin,

Thank you for finding that for me. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the whole article. Appears that it would be a good read. The Richard Jenkins will I mentioned, I would guess, was written about 1647 if it was referring to the Richard who was Nicholas Butler's servant in New England.

That last will and testament might be a helpful document, but it's a little outside my retrieval skills. Moving to the realm of Massachusetts records may be a little easier. But my questions may not be easy to answer. Was Richard an indentured servant or some other category of servant? Knowing this may help to answer how long Richard stayed w/ the Butlers. Was he w/ the Butlers in Dorchester then Martha's Vineyard? Was Richard in any way connected to the Peter Jenkins who removed to M. V. from Rowley (Essex) Mass. Bay Colony? I hope these have findable responses. Maybe I'll pose some of them on the Nicholas Butler profile. Thanks again.

D. Jenkins

posted by Dave Jenkins
Cross-14061 Kevin Cross
So far, wills have been hard for me to retrieve. There are some on FamilySearch that I can find, but many of those, I have a hard time reading. Again, if I ever come across anything else, I will definitely let you know.
posted by Kevin Cross
Jenkins-761 Dave Jenkins
Yes, wills are very good as are land records are sometimes very good. They might refer to sons-in-laws, married names of daughters, and have other important information. Thanks again.
posted by Dave Jenkins
Jenkins-761 Dave Jenkins
Thank you starting this Name Project. I feel a little bit in the wilderness in this name study. Are there any P. Managers with an interest in the Jenkinses of colonial Massachusetts? Seems like a lot of potential profiles to be created. Thanks again.
posted by Dave Jenkins
edited by Dave Jenkins
Cross-14061 Kevin Cross
As of right now, it is only me. If you want to use this page as a starting resource and work on a sub-project for colonial Massachusetts, feel free to do so. I am currently only in the collection and organization process.
posted by Kevin Cross

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