Person:Richard Jenks (1)

Facts and Events
Name Richard Jenks
Gender Male
Death[1] 1538 Eaton under Heywood, Shropshire, England
References
  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)
    110:246.

    'Rowland Jenks' son Richard is the first Jenks in all of England known to have left a will. It was dated 1538, ...
    Richard Jenkes of Hatton "in the parish of Yeton in the Diocese of Hereford" ... Proved by the Widow ... 1 June 1538 P.C.C.'

    On the previous page, the author links the family to Wolverton in the ancient manor of Eton, parish of Eaton-under-Heywood.