Jenkins Family
Genealogy & Local HistoriesA website based around the Jenkins family tree, related tress and some local histories, including Aylesbury, Dartford, Tunbridge Wells, and Bexleyheath.
Welcome To The Jenkins Website
This website is a personal collection of research into the history, genealogy and stories of the Jenkins family, Payne family, Marriott-Smith family and related family branches. The areas they lived in include Bexleyheath, Dartford, Tunbridge Wells, Aylesbury and Lowestoft . A great collection of photos exist as the family were made up of many photographers over the last 150 years. The site will be regularly updated as the research and discoveries continue. This is just a pesonal site but I will make every effort to keep the facts and dates accurate.
People and Places of Interest
The family has connections with Aylesbury, Lowestoft, Tunbridge Wells, Bexleyheath and Worthing to name a few. Many Photographers and family members who have helped shape the histories of towns and villages in the South of England
Tunbridge Wells
Henry Jenkins at his studio, known as Alpha Studios and also becoming Payne & Jenkins Photography Studios later on
Family Portraits
The photo below taken in 1921, after Henry Jenkins DeathÂ
5 generations of Jenkins
A Composite photo created in the 1940s showing 5 generations of Jenkins along the Bexleyheath Branch
Thomas Jenkins
Thomas Jenkins of Bexleyheath , a publisher, printer and local businessman who amongst other achievements started the first fire brigade in Bexleyheath
Henry & Elizabeth Jenkins 1913
Wedding Anniversary portrait of Henry Jenkins and Elizabeth Jenkins ( nee Payne )
Family Portrait
A Family portrait taken in Tunbridge Wells around 1900 with Henry, Elizabeth, Sidney, Annie, Harry, Alfred, Pollie. Ellen, Samuel, Frederick, Ernest and Rowland