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From: "Pat Scrivens" <>
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Jenkins cross-posting
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 06:46:47 -0000
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Hi William
Many thanks for replying
Regards Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Edwards" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Jenkins cross-posting


> Hello Kevin, I do not think we link up. My gggrandmother was Frances
Jenkins
> born 9/7/1840 daughter of Thomas Jenkins and Frances James of Pant-y-pwll
> Farm Llanddarog.She later married Philip Edwards of Llanarthney 15/7/1965
> Best Wishes William ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin D Jenkins" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:44 AM
> Subject: [Cmn-L] Jenkins cross-posting
>
>
> > I've been lurking on the list for the past year, a
> > little too intimidated (and busy with other famhist
> > projects) to enter the discussions. But with the
> > latest mention of the Jenkins name on the Carmarthen
> > list, I decided I should go ahead and post my
> > interests in Carms and Pembrokeshire, even though
> > there's probably no immediate connection.
> >
> > My ggg-grandfather James Jenkins immigrated to America
> > in 1854. Family History says he was born in October
> > 1817 in Llangynin (Llanginning), Carmarthenshire and
> > married to Elizabeth Davis, also of Carmarthenshire,
> > in May 1842 in Ilston, Glamorganshire. (Free BMD says
> > June 1842; I haven't tried to order any certs yet.)
> > The obituary for his oldest child says she was born in
> > 1844 in Cardiff, but the family maintains it was
> > Carmarthen, and the two subsequent children were born
> > in Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, according to famhistory.
> > I've wondered if SKS could help me with an 1851 Census
> > look up for them.
> >
> > James' parents were Thomas Jenkin(s) and Mary Thomas.
> > Not much known about them but I've seen a Web site
> > that says Thomas may be the one mentioned in the 1851
> > Llangynin census as born 1782 in Llanddewi,
> > Pembrokeshire. I'd be grateful for 1841/1851 census
> > information for them as well.
> >
> > James received a letter from his brother John in
> > 1887-1888 that makes reference to John's home at
> > Cilshew Farm in Pembrokeshire, although it appears
> > that's supposed to be Cil-rhiw Farm (transcription
> > error?), which is in the Lampeter Velfrey area, near
> > Llanddewi Velfrey. The 1881 census online mentions a
> > 70-year-old John Jenkins (born Llanboidy, Carms) who
> > was a servant or laborer at Cilrhew Farm. (In one odd
> > USA reference, James said he was born in Lampeter,
> > Pembrokeshire, so there must be some family connection
> > to the area.) John's letter and a subsequent one
> > indicate the following key facts:
> >
> > John and James had a brother Ben who died underground
> > in the Rhondda and a sister, Harriet, who died
> > February 1888 in "the Mote" and was buried "from the
> > Mote."
> >
> > John's son, Caleb, was working in the Rhonnda valley.
> >
> > John's daughter Ann had married a John P. Davies and
> > was living in Melynarythan, Neath, Glamorganshire.
> > John went to stay with her in 1887 for "a change of
> > air" because of his sickness. Ann's husband John
> > Davies had worked for five years with a railroad in
> > New Mexico, USA, but returned home to Wales from 1886
> > to 1888 to be with his family before again going back
> > to New Mexico.
> >
> > John had six other children who had emigrated to the
> > United States.
> >
> > If any of this coincides with someone else's research,
> > I'd be pleased to hear from you.
> >
> > Kevin Jenkins.
> >
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