Family:Joseph Jenks and Joan Hearne (1)

Residence

It is possible they never lived in Buckinghamshire, in spite of the baptism of their son there. Colket states: "It is probable that Joseph Jenks was not a resident of Buckinghamshire, but married his bride in the parish of her family, and in accordance with custom, she returned to her old home for the birth of her eldest child.^[3]

1. ↑ Colket, Meredith B., and William Bradford Browne. The Jenks Family of England: Supplement to the Genealogy of the Jenks family of America (1952) by William B. Browne. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (s.n., 1956)
   110:250.

   Citing the parish register of Isleworth, Middlesex:
   "1634/5 February 29 Jone Jeankes the wife of Joseaff Jeankes was buryed."
   
   Citing the Bishop's Transcripts for the Horton [Buckinghamshire] parish:
   'Richard Norris and Ellin Hearne were married the twentieth day of October 1627
   Joseph Jenkes and Ellen Hearne were married the fifth day of Nouemb^r 1627
   We submit that the copyist, in transcribing the Jenks marriage, may have inadvertently copied down a part or all of the maiden's name from the previous entry ...'
   
   The author goes on to quote a "distinguished Bucks' scholar, A. Vere Woodman, F.S.A." as saying that while the bride's first name was probably incorrect, he doubted that the surname was similarly mis-transcribed, due to the importance of the marriage record as legal evidence.

2.   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   9(1855):201-2.

   From a letter from W.M. Jenks, regarding "family tradition" of the Jenks family:
   "Our tradition states, that [Joseph Jenks, senior] left Joseph junior with his maternal grandparents, whose family-name I know not, ... until he should be of age, when he was directed to join his father in America. But he must have arrived, it appears, before that period, perhaps when 16, and is said to have had a brother, George, or William, who 'went from England to Virginia.' The name occurs in the interior of North Carolina."

   Note: While "family tradition" can be very unreliable, it appears there was a basis for this tradition, in that Jonas Jenks, the only known Jenks who moved to Virginia 110:91, may have been the first cousin of Joseph Jenks, Sr.

3. ↑ Colket, Meredith B., and William Bradford Browne. The Jenks Family of England: Supplement to the Genealogy of the Jenks family of America (1952) by William B. Browne. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (s.n., 1956)
   110:14.