Brief Life History of Jenkins
When Jenkins Jones was born on 11 April 1742, in New Britain, Bucks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Jones, was 34 and his mother, Martha West, was 34. He married Ann Ewer on 27 October 1767, in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died in 1824, at the age of 82.
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- Jenkin Jones, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
- Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99B-KZ6L?cc=1999196&wc=9PM8-FM7%3A268497401%2C268781501
- Jenkin Jones, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
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English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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