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Wood Jenkins b 1840 - Sarah Cooper b 1845

 
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Sarah Cooper, born to William Cooper / Rachel Head on 27th April 1845 and sister to my Ggrandfather Benjamin Cooper. I obtained her birth certificate and I had left the search there. The family have always maintained that there was a Jenkins in the family and recent research has turned up a marriage of a Sarah Cooper to Wood Jenkins. Further research has shown that this is the Sarah I had previously found. The probate below shows the connection is almost certainly correct. Probate was granted for the estate of Rachel Cooper of Ruspidge (wife of William Cooper Sarah's parents) to Sarah Jenkins, wife of Wood Jenkins. Future research will now concentrate on finding more details.

The family as it has been identified from all the records researched

Richard Jenkins b1809
Susan Jenkins b1810
Esther Jenkins b1838
Peter Jenkins b1838
Wood Jenkins b1840

  

 
 
Transcription of the Clearwell parish register showing the baptism of Wood Jenkins to Richard and Susan Jenkins on the 8th of March 1840 - was the 'Wood' Susan's maiden name?
 
1841 census for the Jenkins family living in Clearwell, Forest of Dean
 
1851 census for the Jenkins family living in Clearwell, Forest of Dean

This now makes the family look like this after the 1851 census, ignoring the transcription errors

Richard Jenkins b1809
Susan Jenkins b1810, 1811
Walter Jenkins b1837
Esther Jenkins b1838, 1839
Peter Jenkins b1838, 1839
Wood Jenkins b1840
Mary Jenkins b1844
Hannah Jenkins b1846
Alice Jenkins b1848
 
1861 census for Wood Jenkins family living in Clearwell, Forest of Dean
 
 
 
1881 Census
 
1891 Census