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Hi I was wondering if you found out why Taylor alias Jenkins had been used. I would be really interested to know as I've recently found out that there is a connection to my husbands family tree with Edward Jenkins. Thanks.

Hi lalkav!

The only thing I have found on Edward is possible match on a baptism in Broomfield.  The boy named Edward Jenkins Taylor is the son of Sarah Taylor, baptised on the 25 March 1739. http://www.wsom.org.uk/Registers/BmfBap17001753.htm

Since there is no father on record I suspect that he was an illegitimate child and his fathers name might have been Jenkins and that Edward later in life decided to use his fathers surname and not his mother's.

I have not been able to track down any possible fathers and I have no hope of doing so. You might be able to continue by looking in to Sarah Taylor's family though.

I have finished it with some help from VictorianDreamer in the chat! Thanks so much to everyone helping me. The finished text is in the fist post if any one is interested!

I direct my executrix hereinafter named to sell and dispose

as soon as conveniently maybe

divide the clear proceeds to arise therefrom unto and equally between (named brothers) and the children of my late deceased brother....share and share alike

as tenants in common
silver tea spoons marked S E N (I think) and the next girl also gets spoons marked with the same letters

Thanks for your input clayton! A lot of those things where repeated in the text so there is not much left now. I edited the first post I did with the current text that I have.

Hi I need some help with deciphering of this will of Elizabeth Jenkins. I have worked hard on getting this far but need some extra help now. If you have time then you can check the text i have written also.

Link to ancestry: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/5111/40611_309747-00762/73467?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-c%26msdpn__ftp%3dGoathurst%252c%2bSomerset%252c%2bEngland%26msdpn%3d1674855%26msdpn_PInfo%3d8-%257c0%257c0%257c3257%257c3251%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c5283%257c1674855%257c0%257c%26msrpn__ftp%3dGoathurst%252c%2bSomerset%252c%2bEngland%26msrpn%3d1674855%26msrpn_PInfo%3d8-%257c0%257c0%257c3257%257c3251%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c5283%257c1674855%257c0%257c%26cpxt%3d1%26uidh%3d6f9%26msddp%3d1%26cp%3d11%26pcat%3dCLP_WILLS%26h%3d446450%26db%3dCanturburyPrerogativeCourt%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d13&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

Or an image if you don't have ancestry:



This is the last will and testament
Of me Elizabeth Jenkins of Goathurst in the County of Somerset 
spinster.  First I direct my executrix hereinafter named to sell and dispose
of my household goods and furniture as soon as conveniently maybe after my
decease and to pay and divide the clear proceeds to arise therefrom unto and
equally between my brothers Isaac Jenkins and Edward Jenkins and the
children of my late deceased brother Charles Jenkins share and share alike
as tenants in common. I give unto my niece Matilda wife of John Smith
a pair of silver table spoons marked “S.E.N”. I give unto my niece
Susanna wife of James Dowling a pair of silver table spoons also marked  “S.
E.N”. I give unto my niece Elizabeth wife of John Smith of Lincoln
six silver tea spoons marked “S.E.N” and a silver sugar tongs marked
L.J. I give unto Elizabeth Jenkins daughter of my nephew Charles
Jenkins two silver tea spoons marked E.J. I give unto the said Susana
Dowling all my china books and pictures. I also give unto my four nieces
the said Elizabeth Smith Susanna Dowling Matilda Smith and Maria Jenkins
all my wearing apparel and bed and table linen of every description to be equally
divided between them share and share alike. I give unto Hannah Slater the
sum of ten pounds to be paid out of my money in the funds but if she
should not be living at the time of my decease then I direct that the same
shall be equally divided between my said four nieces share and share alike
as tenants in common. I give unto my friend Mary Coombs of Goathurst
aforesaid spinster the sum of ten pounds to be paid out of my money in the
funds for the trouble she may have in the execution of this my will and
as to the monies in the funds now standing in my own name in the
Annuities for terms of years or otherwise subject to the payment of the said
legacies. I give the same unto my said two brothers Isaac Jenkins and
Edward Jenkins and the children of my said deceased brother Charles Jenkins
equally to be divided between them shares and shares alike as tenants in common
and not as joint tenants. And as to all the rest and residue of my monies
and securities for money personal estate and effects of every description that I
may be possessed of at the time of my decease and over which I have any
disposing power. I give the same and every part thereof unto and equally to
be divided between my said four nieces Elizabeth Smith Susanna Dowling
Matilda Smith and Maria Jenkins share and share alike as tenants in common
and not as joint tenants subject to the payment of my just debts funeral and
testamentary expenses and the expenses of providing this my will and incident
or relating thereto and I hereby nominate constitute and appoint the said
Mary Coombes Sole Executrix of this my will and hereby authorize and
empower her to deduct and retain all expenses which she may incur in the
execution of this my will in Witness whereof I, the said Elizabeth Jenkins the
testatrix, have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of May one thousand
eight hundred and fifty one – Elizabeth Jenkins – Signed by the said Elizabeth
Jenkins the testatrix as and for her last will and testament in the presence
of us (present at the same time) who in her presence at her request and the
presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
Edw Lilly of Bridgwater – Edw Coombes of Goathurst.

Thanks in advance!
Oliver