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m. - John JenksEst 1576 - Bet 1625 & 1626
- Jonas JenksEst 1580 - 1622
Facts and Events
| Name |
John Jenks |
| Alt Name |
John Jenckes |
| Gender |
Male |
| Alt Birth? |
29 Mar 1573 |
St. Ann Blackfriars, London (City of), Middlesex, England |
| Birth[1] |
Est 1576 |
England |
| Marriage License |
8 Jan 1595/96 |
St. Ann Blackfriars, London City, London, Englandto Sarah Fulwater |
| Residence[1] |
From 1596 to 1599 |
St. Ann Blackfriars, London City, London, England |
| Marriage |
Est 1605 |
to Helen _____ |
| Residence[1] |
From 1611 to 1625 |
Tower of London, London, England |
| Death[1] |
Bet 1625 and 16 Aug 1626 |
Tower of London, London, England |
The purported ancestry and biography of John Jenckes was included in the book "Ancestral Lines, Third Edition" by Carl Boyer 3rd, published by the author in Santa Clarita, California in 1998. He drew on the extensive article by Meredith B. Colket, Jr. in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register in 1956 and 1968 (122:170-171).
The parentage of John Jenckes cannot be proved, but it is highly possible that William Jenckes, an agent for the City of London early in the reign of King Henry VIII, was his father. William's brother Richard Jenckes of Shropshire named the sons of his "cosen" (nephew?) Jonas Jenckes of London in his will[2], and it is speculated that John and Jonas were brothers.
John Jenckes was apprenticed to John Wyat, citizen and white baker of London, who was a cutler in 1592 for the usual term of seven years, but violated his apprenticeship agreement by marrying. His wife's death saw his children in another's care and so he completed the training and became "a citizen and white baker" of London, cutler, in 1604. He would have inherited a right to belong to the bakers company even though he was a cutler by trade.
He made "recognizable and vastly beautiful knives for the Royal table, knives that are still exhibited in European museums today." He used a bunch of grapes as his trademark and his style of work was Continental.
He lived in St. Anne parish in Blackfriars, London during his first marriage, and from 1611 was resident near the Bulwark Gate in the Precinct of the Tower of London.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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)
110:86-88.
p. 86: "John Jenks of St. Anne, Blackfriars, London, cutler, ..." marriage license Jan 1595/6, 2 children baptized in St Anne, Blackfriars, London, 1596/7 and 1599.
p. 86: "John Jenks of the Precinct of the Tower of London, cutler, was born about 1576, for he was presumably 16 years of age when he became apprenticed" in 1592.
p. 88: "Jenks lived in the Precinct of the Tower of London as early as 15 Sept. 1611 when ..."
p. 88: "The last record of him that we have, shows that he was taxed [at the Precinct of the Tower of London] in 1625. ... John Jenks died sometime between 1625 and 16 August 1626, ..."
Note that in this article, the author distinguishes between John Jenks of St Anne, Blackfriars and John Jenks of the Precinct of the Tower of London, both cutlers, and each with a son named Joseph. Later in the article (110:90), he dismisses the idea that they were the same person, and suggests they were father and son (by an earlier marriage). However, in a later article (NEHGR 122:168-170), he proposes that they were the same person, citing a precedent in which a man had two sons with the same name from different marriages.
- ↑ 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)
110:168.
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