William Jenkinson

[Cluffy74]

I've hit a wall.  I'm trying to fathom out my husband's maternal grandmothers side. I have sent off for her birth certificate and her sisters and they do not have the same parents. I can trace Nancy my husband's grandmothers parents. But they are not who my fatherinlaw remembers. He remembers the sisters parents.  I have got her birth certificate today and her father was William Jenkinson.  We have a newspaper cutting that says William died yesterday but the paper does not reveal a date.  It states he died at work in Sheffield at the age of 58 and left a wife and six children.  One of which was ill and two at the time.  This must have been Phyllis as she was born in 1927 and the last surviving child to be born.  There was one other but he died soon after birth in 1929. I have traced the mother Eliza Finch but cannot find a marriage record and therefore do not know what I can try next.  Any suggestions greatly appreciated.  Sorry it's so confusing 

[groom]

Welcome to Rootschat

We have a newspaper cutting that says William died yesterday but the paper does not reveal a date.  It states he died at work in Sheffield at the age of 58 and left a wife and six children. 

This looks like his death

Deaths Sep 1931 
 
Jenkinson    William    57   
Sheffield    9c   542

[groom]

Christopher was a little older than you thought when he died, so is probably the child referred to. It looks as if he died soon after his father.

Births Sep 1929   

JENKINSON    Christopher H    Finch   
Sheffield    9c   888

Deaths Sep 1931 

Jenkinson    Christopher H    2   
Sheffield    9c   503

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[Cluffy74]

Thanks so much It's being driving me mad 

[Cluffy74]

How would I now trace William Jenkinson. I've been doing this by marriage but although Phyllis' birth certificate says her mother is Eliza Jenkinson formerly Finch I cannot find a marriage record and cannot seem to find where William would originate from.  I know Eliza was a servant in Sheffield in 1911 and had a son called Richard Finch out of wedlock he died in the Second World War and we have found his war grave in Greece.

[groom]

I can't find a marriage either, I even tried to see whether she'd been married before and so married William under another name, but that doesn't look likely if she had a son called Finch. It could be they didn't marry.

The only thing we know about William is he was born about 1874 (from his death) and died in Sheffield. When the death notice said he had a wife and 6 children, were they all his or just the last 2? Have you got dates of the children's births?

[groom]

There doesn't appear to be any William Jenkinson born in Sheffield around that time.

[Cluffy74]

Ok so this is what I know.

Richard Finch b 1913 d 1941 mother Eliza Finch father Unknown.
Nancy Jenkinson (my husband's grandmother) b 1917 d 1992. Believed to be mother Eliza Finch father William Jenkinson. Her birth certificate says mother Lily Johnson father Richard Cammish Jenkinson.
Edward Jenkinson b 1920 d 1976 again believed to be Nancy's full brother. Records suggest his mother is Annie Asher and his father is Joseph Shillinglaw Jenkinson.
Arthur Jenkinson b 1924 d 1942 mother Eliza Finch father William Jenkinson.
Phyllis Jenkinson b 1927 d 2015 mother Eliza Finch father William Jenkinson.
Christopher Jenkinson b 1929 d 1931 same mother and father as Arthur and Nancy.

I have the birth certificates for Nancy and Phyllis as we as a family could not believe that they were not sisters by blood.  No mention was ever made of this to my Husband's family's recollection.

[groom]

How confusing! Why are you so certain that they are all full related siblings when they appear not to share any parent ie Nancy and Edward don't have a common parent from what you say? Is there any relationship between Richard Cammish Jenkinson, Joseph Shillinglaw Jenkinson and William Jenkinson? Did William have a distinctive middle name?