Ann,
The end of your message was missing. I am responding to what I did get.
I had the same question about weither they are the same Thomas or not but the address is
the same and I was told that some miners saved up and as they got older they couldn't
work in the mines as well and changed professions. What are your thoughts. If the
address wasn't the same, I would question it further, the names of the wife and
daughter are right. Something is not on the up and up, like I said, I am haveing a heep
of trouble sorting this out.
Jill
----- Original Message -----
From: Anne Sheppard <ahg.sheppardp(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:36 pm
Subject: Re: [MonmouthshireGwent] Jenkins in Tredegar
Hi Jill,
Just looking at the census information you send on your Thomas
Jenkins -
changing occupation from Miner to Butcher sounds rather unlikely -
are you
sure you have the same Thomas Jenkins in these two census returns.
I ask
because on the 1841 census for
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Fife" <jnjfife(a)gci.net>
To: <MonmouthshireGwent-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 7:00 PM
Subject: [MonmouthshireGwent] Jenkins in Tredegar
I have been lurking for a bit and thought it was time to repost my
forever
brick wall that I have all but given up on. This line is a sad
spot in my
family history.
I am mostly trying to figure out who Thomas Jenkins and were he
was born. I
am unable to find him before 1851. He list two different places of
birth on
the two censuses I have been able to find. I do have his wedding
certificate to Mary Jones daughter of Richard and Susanna Jones.
Which list
his father as Edward Jenkins. He was married in the Sharon Chapel.
He died
while living on Chapel Street around 1863 in Tredgar. But there
was not much
info on that. His wife soon married David Williams and that is
were the
line continues. I do have tidbits here and there.
Here is a copy from a journal entry from one of the cousins about
Thomas and
his dad and his dads bothers:
“There was a cousin Thomas Evans. He went to Wales on his mission
and wrote
in his journal: "I stayed at the home of Thomas Jenkins in Wales
when I was
on my mission there. His father was 107 years old and had 3
brothers all
over 100. They were nicknamed Old Die, Young Die and Die-come
lately. While
there I met David, a son of Thomas. I was very favorably
impressed with
him. He was smart, a chip off the old block, and could do
anything. The
word most people used to describe him was "Genius".
David ( the son of Thomas Jenkins) worked for the government
telegraph
office in his early twenties. He married Elizabeth Hurlow of
Saunersfoot in
the Bedwellty Parish. They had a daughter Suzanne in Tredegar on
Jan 27
1877 and she died on the 29th. So she is there somewhere.
Here are the census I have:
1851 census 19, Chapel Row,Tredegar. Harcourt Terrace
Thomas Jenkins, head, m, 26, miner, Llanidloes,
Montgommery, Wales
Mary Jenkins, wife, m, 23, Merthyr Tydfil,
Glamorgan,
Wales
Ann Jenkins, Dau, 3,
Tredegar, Mon.
1861 census
Thomas JENKINS (Butcher) age 37 Radnor St. Harmon
Mary (no maiden name given) age 32 Merthyr Tydifil
Ann JENKINS age 12, born at
Tredegar,
Monmouth
Richard JENKINS age 10, ditto
David JENKINS age 6, ditto
Edward JENKINS age 2, ditto
If any one has info on this family, I would love to here from you.
Jill
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