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) |
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Parents |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sources of information |
Manning’s Placenames of South Australia; Certificates of Title,
Newspapers, BDM Indexes |