Person:Joseph Jenks (10)

Cutler admitted to the guild of white bakers in 1629. Once thought to be the immigrant Joseph Jenks, but information about the ages of the two is inconsistent, and administration of this Joseph's estate was given to his widow Mary in 1642. It is likely however that the men are half-brother's, as both are sons of cutler John Jenks.

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)
   110:89.

   'Known issue of John and Hellen:
   Joseph, b. ca. 1607; d by 7 Sept. 1642; m. 30 Sept. 1630 Mary Tervyn.'

2.   Colket, Meredith B. The Father of Joseph Jenks of Lynn, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   122 (July 1968):168.
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)
   110:11-12.

   'On 9 Aug. 1641 [Joseph Jenks, cutler] was taxed by the City of London as a member of the Company of White Bakers. The quartage books of the Company show that in 1641 and 1642 Jenks failed to pay his dues. ... On 7 Sept. 1642 Mary Jenks, described as the relict of "Josephus Jenks", late of the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, Middlesex, was granted an administration on the estate ...'