William Johnson Jenkins, Sr. (1816 - 1898)
The Distinguished Name of
JENKINS
Spelling variations include:
Jenkins, Jenkin, Jankins, Jenkynn, Jenkynns, Jenkyns.
The name was first found of ancient
Welsh heritage in Monmouthshire where they were recorded as a family of great
antiquity located at Caerleond with manor and estates in that shire. They
believed to be descended from the ancient Lords of Yale, well before the Norman
Conquest in about 1100 A.D.
The branched Northward to Shropshire
at Charton Hill and Wolverton, an other branched at Hawkesbury in
Gloucestershire. The main branch moved to Yorkshire
where George JENKINS was Lord of the
manor and estates in 1460. Branches also were established in Rusby and in the
city of York.
Some of the early JENKINS
adventurers sailed to the New World. In North America , one of the first
migrants that could be considered a kinsman of the family was Oliver JENKINS.
He arrived in Virginia in 1619 before the ship Mayflower arrived at Plymouth
Rock in 1620. Alexander JINKINS settled in Virginia in 1624. Walter JENKYNS
settled in Virginia in 1635, Edmund JENKINS settled in Virginia in 1635, John
JENKINS settled in Virginia in 1623. Morgan JENKINS settled in Nevis in 1654.
Our own Enoch JENKINS arrived in
Pennsylvania in about 1756 and lived in Chester County.
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