Jenkins: Tredegar Wales to Scranton, Pennsylvania
David Jenkins, born about 1829 in Ebbw Vale.
His parents were Thomas Jenkins, 44 (born about 1807) and his wife, Harriet, 43 (born about 1808)
about two miles north of Tredegar there was village called "Nant-y-bwch" which lay in Breconshire,in the 1881 census there:
David Jenkins, 50
Mary Jenkins, 40
John (E.) Jenkins, 20 (born about 1861--a man born on 20 Sep 1860 would not have reached his 21st birthday yet)
Elias Jenkins, 16
William Jenkins, 14
David Jenkins, 9
George H Jenkins, 3
Martha Jenkins, 11
Harriet A. Jenkins, 1 mo.
JOHN E, JENKINS and wife ANN (BENNETT) EVANS JENKINS came to the US thru Phila July 1888 from Tredegar and settled in Scranton, Pa.The marriage certificate of William H. and Anne Jenkins of September 16, 1881 at Parish Church, Bedwellty shows David Jenkins and Richard Evans fathers
John had a sister MARTHA JENKINS who remained in Wales and a brother WILLIAM H. JENKINS who settled in Forty Fort, Penna before John arrived.
JOHN E. and ANNE JENKINS had children:
MARY (MAE) 1885 married Richard Davies and had children Esther Parson, Richard Davis and Agnes
WILLIAM JENKINS (1886)married Agnes Lenore Joyce and had children: Ann, Willard, Jack, Evelyn Walsh and Jane
BLODWEN JENKINS (1888?)who married Ebenezer Hughes and had children: Milton(Hamilton S.) Hughes, Janice Sebring and Delbert Hughes (I am son of Milton (Hamilton S.) Hughes
John E. Jenkins, worked for Prudential Insurance.he deserted the family and went off with another woman about 1904 and whereabouts were never learned