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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

JENKINS, William

Date of Birth

C 1921

Place of Birth

England

Date of Death

08.08.1887

Place of Death

Suffered a fatal heart attack outside the Thistle in North Adelaide.

Place of Burial

Hindmarsh Cemetery (10.08.1887)

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

c1843. (A colonist of 44 years when he died.)

Lived in Prospect (dates)

c1854-1888

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

St John’s Wood; Little Adelaide; Nailsworth; North Road, Prospect Village.

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

Adelaide (c1850)

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

 

Spouse(s)

Ann FRY (27.09.1832-08.02.1914), daughter of Enoch FRY

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

18.04.1851

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

[Wesleyan?]Chapel, Gawler Place Adelaide

Children

Enoch James (23.05.1852-), William Edwin (05.04.1854-). Charles Henry (17.04.1856-), Fanny (18.06.1858-), Alfred George (22.04.1860-), Enoch James (18.09.1862-),Henry Albert (10.03.1865-), Thomas Arthur (07.07.1867-)Herman Charles (17.11.1869-), Edith Ann (10.12.1871-)Emilie Louise (03.09.1878-).

Education

 

Occupation(s)

Carrier, farmer, landowner

Interests/Activities

Member of the Albert Lodge IOOOF MU.

Religion/Churches

Wesleyan Methodist

Notes (points of interest etc.)

On 25 March 1845 William Jenkins purchased 21 acres of Section 346 which he divided into three equal portions, selling one to Richard James Hart and a second to Enoch Fry. He and Fry later sold their portions to George Rolfe the trustee of a syndicate of eleven. The land comprised 64 allotments located either side of California Street to be called the Village of Nailsworth, after Fry’s birthplace in Gloucestershire.

In about 1878 William Jenkins and Richard James Hart who each owned 12 acres of Section 349 subdivided this to create the eastern sections of Gloucester and Harrington (now Milner) streets.

Local Government experience

 

Sources of information

Manning’s Placenames of South Australia; Certificates of Title, Newspapers, BDM Indexes

 

Picture
Source: SLSA B47769/4R. SLSA states that the identity of persons in this collection  (Old Colonists Dinner, 1872) has not been confirmed.
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