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Surname/tag: Jenkins
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.
Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:
What Can You Do?
- Add the Jenkins template to all of the Jenkins profiles which you manage. [If you add the template it will automatically add the category.]
- Add sources to a Jenkins profile.
- Connect unconnected Jenkins profiles to the main tree.
- 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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My Uncle, Thomas Jenkins, of the 1926 Red Sox Ball club, got me interested in family search. Looking forward to adding my several profiles to the ONS. Thank you for creating it. Thomas, born in Camden Wilcox Alabama, moved to Hull Massachusetts later in life. His family history is rich in stories, battles and settlements . So onward the journey goes.
I have been researching and doing DNA for years on the Jenkins of Lincoln and Gaston Counties, North Carolina. I have mine and my father's autosomal DNA as well as a cousin who has done Y-DNA for us. I would love to start a group for these Jenkins. I believe they trace back to Jenkins from Lancaster, PA, but that is still to be determined. This journey started about 15 years ago trying to solve who the parents were of my 3x great grandfather Michael Oliver Jenkins. I worked with many of the old time researchers, who had me clued in on the right grandparents, which DNA does support, but until we did Y-DNA we always made the mistaken assumption the his mother was a Jenkins, nope. It was his father who was the Jenkins. So now we know his father was one of two men. He was an illegitimated child. The journey will continue to find his mother.
Please let me know the next steps for starting a group of Jenkins from Colonial America.
Thank you, Amy Crooks
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Colonial_America%2C_Jenkins_Name_Study
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
edited by Dave Jenkins
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.
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
edited by Dave Jenkins