Jenkins at Featherstone

[Hackstaple]

Isaac Jenkins -  born Gloucestershire about 1867 and a miner at Featherstone in the 1901 census. Isaac was probably born at East Dean but the census shows his place of birth as Ruspidge. His father was Enos, also a collier and born at East Dean about 1838.
If Isaac is in your family tree we are distantly related [Enos is my GGFather]and I am trying to find information about Enos and his wife, Isaac's mother, Eliza.

[winston]

Hi

Have found Enos jenkins on the 1871 census for you

enos Jenkins 33 coal miner born eats dean glouc
eliz 32 born east dean
enos 6 ""
isaac 5 ""
bertha 2 """
rhoda 9 months ""

If you have not already I suggest you check out the LDS family search site for the 1881 census as there is a fair bit of info about your Enos.  Especially his parents.

wendy

[Hackstaple]

Wendy
Thanks for your kind reply. I already had all of that about the Jenkins family but cannot get further back than the elder Enos. I was hoping that a descendant of Isaac or the younger Enos may have done some better work getting back before 1838. The census takers seemed often to write rubbish about place of birth and simply to place all members of the family as born at one place - often the place where they lived at the date of the census. I have an ancestor who has 3 different birth places in 3 successive censuses. From that it is hard to work out who he really is when one sees a birth record. I have bought cerificates in the past for people who have not even a remote connection with my ancestry. But I am relative beginner at this task.
Again,thanks
Victor

[Hackstaple]

I had the most amazing good luck with this one. I did a birth search on Enos's father who I knew was born in1837 and I had let that rest as it was the wife of that Enos that I was looking for. I used http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp
To my amazement, when I saw his record it had a string of numbers against it and I found that someone in the States had done a lengthy search on his uncle Job. That gave me the Jenkins ancestry complete back to 1715 with only one unresolved query. So, 10 minutes work took me from 1837 to 1715.