JENKIN OF MORWENSTOW
The entry in the Morwenstow parish registers for the 1657/58 marriage of John and Honor (Jenkin) Chibbot identifies Honor as a daughter of John Jenkin.[1] Honor, daughter of John Jenking and Marie was baptised at Morwenstow in 1635[2] and “John Jenkin & Mary Smith, gent.” were married in 1633/34.[3] It is evident from chancery records that Richard Smith of Cornakey who died in 1695 was the half-brother of John Jenkin of Cornakey, who was the brother of Honor (Jenkin) Chibbot.[4] Richard Smith at the time of his death in 1695 was said to be in the seventy-first year of his age[5] and the Morwenstow parish registers record the baptism of Richard, son of Richard Smith, gentleman, and Mary, on 25 April 1624.[6] It is therefore apparent that Mary, wife of the older Richard Smith, was the same person who later married John Jenkin.
The 1695 will of Richard Smyth of Cornakey names several individuals who may give clues to his mother’s ancestry. He mentions, among others, his aged and infirm kinswoman Mary Bew, Charles Goard, Avise Cock and her daughter Mary, his kinsmen Robert Eare, clerk, and his brothers Richard Eare and Charles Eare, John Blight of Bodmin, two children of his niece Katherine Rogers, his kinsman George Bew, his kinsman John Rawling, John the son of Humphry Sink of Wadebridge, and John Yeo, Richard Yeo and Elizabeth Yeo, children of Francis Yeo of Morwenstow.[7]
There was a Richard Smith who married Patience, daughter of John Brode or Broad of Cornakey, in 1612 at St Columb Major. However, there appears to have been more than one closely linked Richard Smith in the relevant period and area.
A stillborn daughter of Mary Smith was buried at Morwenstow on 17 July 1631.
A John Jenkins of Goseham Mill married Faithful Parsons at Morwenstow in 1621/22. A Faithful Jenking was buried in 1679 at Hartland. There was a John Jenkyn, senior, of Welcombe, whose will was proved in 1665.
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JENKIN
JOHN JENKIN married on 25 January 1633/34 at Morwenstow, Cornwall, MARY, widow of Richard Smith.[8] Mary was buried on 3 January 1662/63 at Morwenstow.[9]
Children of John and Mary ( ) (Smith) Jenkin:
i ALICE JENKIN, bap 2 Apr 1634,
Morwenstow;[10]
m 23 Dec 1661, Hartland, JOHN WEBB.[11]
ii
HONOR JENKIN, bap 21 Jun 1635,
Morwenstow,[12]
bur 24 Jan 1711/12, Morwenstow;[13] m 23
Jan 1657/58, Morwenstow, JOHN CHIBBOT[14] (see here).
iii
JOHN JENKIN of Cornakey,
gentleman, bap 29 Mar 1637, Morwenstow,[15] bur 15
Sep 1700, Morwenstow;[16] m
MARGARET.[17]
[1] W.P.W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs J.H. Glencross, eds., Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, 17(1910):77.
[2] Cornwall OPC Database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[3] W.P.W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs J.H. Glencross, eds., Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, 17(1910):74.
[4] National Archives, C 6/319/30.
[5] Morwenstow monumental inscriptions (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[6] Morwenstow bishop’s transcripts.
[7]
London Metropolitan Archives, CLC/521/MS01744. Some of the others mentioned can
be placed in the families of Richard’s Jenkin half-siblings. The will also
refers to some relatives, including John Anstis (later Garter King of Arms),
who were evidently paternal connections of Richard. See John Maclean, The
Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, 3 vols.
(London, 1872-79), 1:68-69.
[8] W.P.W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs J.H. Glencross, eds., Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, 17(1910):74; National Archives, C 6/319/30; Morwenstow parish register abstracts.
[11] Hartland parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk). The will of Richard Smith mentions his sister Alice Webb (London Metropolitan Archives, CLC/521/MS01744).
[12] Cornwall OPC Database (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[14] W.P.W. Phillimore, Thomas Taylor and Mrs J.H. Glencross, eds., Cornwall Parish Registers: Marriages, 17(1910):77.
[16] Morwenstow bishop’s transcripts; Morwenstow monumental inscriptions (www.cornwall-opc-database.org).
[17] The will of Richard Smith mentions his brother John Jenkyn, Margaret his wife and Mary their daughter (London Metropolitan Archives, CLC/521/MS01744).