Margaret (Barkham) Jennings (bef. 1626 - bef. 1667)

Born before 9 May 1626 in London, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edmund Jennings MP — married about 1654 in England

Descendants

Died before 1667 at about age 40 in England

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Biography

Margaret Barkham was a daughter of Edward Barkham, Knt.,^[1] 1st Baronet,^[2][3] and Frances Berney.^[4][5] Her father held lands at Tottenham, Middlesex and Southacre, Norfolk, but also held positions in Boston, Lincolnshire (he was M.P. from Boston in 1625 and 1626, about the time Margaret would have been born).^[6] A baptism record was found at St Mary Bothaw, London:^[7] "Margarett, the daughter of Sir Edward Barkham the younger was baptized May 9 1626".^[8] This could very well be the baptism of the Margaret of this profile as her father is referred to as "the younger" and Margaret's paternal grandfather, Edward Barkham, was still living in 1626, having served as Lord Mayor of London in 1621.

Margaret married Edmund Jennings, Knt., of Ripon, Yorkshire, son of Jonathan Jennings and Elizabeth Parker.^[1][2][3][4] The date and place of their marriage is unknown and is estimated based on the birth date of their eldest child. They had four sons and three or four daughters:

• Jonathan,^[2] Esq.,^[4] on 2 March 1654/5^[9] (aged 10 years in 1665), died unmarried,^[10] M.P. 1695-1701, ^[1]
• William,^[2][4] born 1658 (aged 7 in 1665), died unmarried in 1707^[1][10]
• Col. Edmund,^[2] Esq., emigrant to Virginia; born about 1659, died 5 December 1727; married first to Frances Corbin^[1] and second to Sarah ____^[4][10]
• Peter,^[2][4] born 1664 (aged 1 in 1665), died unmarried^[1] before 1687 (not named in his father's will)^[10]
• Anne,^[2][4] born on 15 March 1655/6,^[11] died 10 May 1691^[1][10] (see research note)
• Elizabeth,^[2] married Roger Beckwith, Knt.^[4][1][10]
• Mary,^[4] died in infancy^[1] before 1665^[10]
• Mary (again), born after 1665, was named in her father's 1687 will^[10]
• Margaret,^[4] born after 1665, was named in her father's 1687 will^[10] (not named in Dugdale's Visitation, LeNeve's Pedigrees or by Dorman)

Margaret's father died on 2 August 1667, leaving a will of the same date. He left his London property to his two younger sons, and £39,000 to his three surviving daughters.^[6]

Edmund died in early September 1691 and was buried at St. Clement Danes, London.^[4] He was succeeded by his son, Jonathan.^[3] Margaret's date and place of death are unknown. She was not named in her father's 1667 will,^[12] so she probably died before that date.

Research Notes

Daughter Anne

Removed Anne (Jennings) Bledsoe as daughter in October 2022. The Anne "Jennings" on WikiTree is married to George Bledsoe: there is no source for Anne's LNAB, birth, parents or marriage. More research is needed before we can connect Anne ____ Bledsoe as a daughter of Edmund Jennings and Margaret Barkham. Anne Bledsoe is NOT the daughter of Margaret's son Edmund, whose daughter Anne also died in 1691, but as an infant.

Possible Son Edward

England Births and Christenings has an entry for the baptism of Edward Jenings, son of Edmunde Jenings and Margerett, at St Mary Alermanbury, London on 7 September 1653. It is possible that the Margaret of this profile and her husband Edmund were the parents named.^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} J.W. Clay, ed. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, with Additions, Vol. 2, p. 201 (Jennings). Archive.org.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} LeNeve's Pedigrees of the Knights. London, 1873, page 325. Archive.org.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} M.W. Helms, et al. "Jennings, Edmund (1626-91), of Ripon, Yorks.," in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690. 1983. History of Parliament Online.
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Vol. III. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013, pp. 407-408, JENNINGS 23.
5. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd ed., Vol. II. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, p. 465, JENNINGS 18. Google Books
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, eds. "Barkham, Sir Edward, 1st Bt. (1591-1667), of Southacre, Norf. and Tottenham, Mdx." in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629. 2010. History of Parliament Online.
7. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JS1R-W48 : 19 September 2020), Margarett Barkham, 1626.
8. ↑ "London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812", London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P69/Mry6/A/001/Ms04310, Ancestry Sharing Link (free access); Ancestry Record 1624 #7524230 ($), Margarett Barkham baptism on 9 May 1626, daughter of Edward Barkham, in St Mary Bothaw, City of London, London, England.
9. ↑ North Yorkshire County Record Office, ref. N-PR-RI-1-6, p. 7, FindMyPast: transcript gives year as 1654 - linked image shows it was 1654/5
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8} Thomas Daniel Knight. "The Yorkshire Family of Edmund Jenings and Peter Jenings of Virginia" in The American Genealogist, Vol. 87, No. 3, Jan/Apr 2015, pp. 161-170, 308-. AmericanAncestors.org[$]
11. ↑ North Yorkshire County Record Office, ref. N-PR-RI-1-6, p. 12, FindMyPast: transcript gives year as 1655 - linked image shows 1655/6
12. ↑ National Archives Discovery. Will of Sir Edward Barkham of Tottenham High Cross. PROB 11/324/466.
13. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPLS-3QV), Margerett in entry for Edward Jenings, 1653

• The Visitation of London, anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635, Vol. I. London, 1880, p. 50. Archive.org
• Dorman, John Frederick, ed. "Barkham-Jenings" in Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. 4th ed., vol. 1: Families A-F. Genealogical Publishing, 2004, p. 199. Online at Gale Genealogy Connect.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and updated for the Magna Carta Project by Thiessen-117 on 3 October 2022.

Margaret (Barkham) Jennings is a descendant of Magna Carta Surety Barons Saher de Quincy, John de Lacy, Gilbert de Clare and Richard de Clare in trails that were project approved/badged in May 2015 by the Magna Carta Project to Gateway Ancestors Marmaduke Beckwith and Edmund Jennings. Badged trails from Beckwith/Jennings to sureties William d'Aubigny and Robert de Ros were connected later. This profile also appears in a badged trail from Beckwith and Jennings to surety barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod that was developed in Autumn 2022. Trails to the aforementioned surety barons are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of both Gateway's profiles: Beckwith and Jennings.

See Base Camp for more information about Magna Carta trails. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".