Jenks Family History
Jenks Name Meaning
English (also found in Wales): patronymic from the Middle English
personal name Jenk, a back-formation from Jenkin with
the removal of the supposed Anglo-Norman French diminutive suffix
-in.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Jenks
Name Distribution of Jenks Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Jenks families
 119 - 235  40 - 118 |
 1 - 39  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Jenks families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Jenks census records
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Jenks Family Origin
Jenks Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Jenks Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Jenks Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Jenks census records
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Military Service by Jenks
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