When Josiah Jenkin was born about 1867, in Illogan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, Josiah Jenkin, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Thomas, was 23. He lived in Wingate, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Coxhoe, Durham, England, United Kingdom in 1891. He died in 1918, in Durham, England, at the age of 52.
English: from the Middle English personal names Jankin, Jenkin, and Jonkin, pet forms of Jan, Jen, and Jon + the hypocoristic suffix -kin. In Middle English, names in -kin were often used to name the younger of two family members with the same personal name.
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