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Missing members of the Jeakins family
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Julie | Report | 31 Jul 2019 13:52 |
John, wife Elizabeth and several of their children went to the US in 1851. The family appear on the England 1851 census just prior to leaving in Newton by Folkingham, Lincolnshire. John 30: Mark 23: Matthew 16: George 12: Charles 5 are all listed with their parents. Sarah 20 is in nearby Folkingham as a servant. James 31 is already married to Ann and in a separate household in Newton. 3 other children remained in England. I have traced what happened to all but 2 of the children, but lose all trace of Sarah and George after the 1851 census. I found a bio of Mark, it mentions Sarah as going to US, but says nothing of George - given that he was only 12 I would have thought he would have gone to the US with his parents. One of my problems is that the name Jeakins can appear under other spellings, I've found Jakins, Jackins, Jeakings and Jenkins so far. Son John ended up in Ohio as a farmer, brothers Matthew and Charles are with him in 1860, as is the now widowed Elizabeth their mother. Mark ended up in Illinois as a farmer. |
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ErikaH | Report | 31 Jul 2019 13:59 |
Purely for INFO |
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ErikaH | Report | 31 Jul 2019 14:01 |
????????? |
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ErikaH | Report | 31 Jul 2019 14:07 |
A tree on Ancestry has the whole family listed as Jackins - shows how careless some people are |
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Julie | Report | 31 Jul 2019 14:31 |
ErikaH - not necessarily careless, I tend to list people under whatever spelling they first appear with. Who is to say what the correct spelling is? I have used the spelling Jeakins as a handle for the whole family in this post, but in some cases one or other of them never appears on a census doc, BDM or other "official" document with the Jeakins spelling. |
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ErikaH | Report | 31 Jul 2019 15:29 |
I give up........................ |
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Julie | Report | 31 Jul 2019 15:49 |
ErikaH, - having people appearing with different spellings of their name on different documents isn't uncommon, but when it happens it's a pain. With the Jeakins/Jeakings/Jackins/Jakins/Jenkins family about the only time they seem to appear with the same spelling of their family name is on a census document where several of them are living in the same household. Jeakins seems to be what later generations of the family have used where they have signed documents, so the inference is that this is what they settled on at some point. Even with John & Elizabeth, several children baptised in the same church, the spelling on the baptism register varies. |
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alviegal | Report | 31 Jul 2019 19:37 |
???? Very common names though |
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Chris Ho :) | Report | 31 Jul 2019 20:16 |
Would be below couple... |
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alviegal | Report | 31 Jul 2019 20:46 |
If this is John's declaration, then there is a Thomas Baker straight after. I realise that this is probably a massive coincidence unless John travelled to Ohio afterwards. Do you know when he emigrated? |
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alviegal | Report | 31 Jul 2019 21:10 |
This is Charles....immigration year was 1855. |
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Dea | Report | 1 Aug 2019 07:49 |
Could this be Mark + John travelling over first ??? |
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Julie | Report | 1 Aug 2019 09:25 |
A bio on Mark Jeakins published in Compromise Illinois suggests John Elizabeth and their children (the ones who actually went to the US) all arrived in the US in the Spring of 1851. I've come across conflicting dates from US census data for some of the family, i.e. different census schedules have different dates for the same person. |
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Dea | Report | 1 Aug 2019 09:26 |
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Julie | Report | 1 Aug 2019 13:20 |
Dea, this is one of the children who stayed in England. The odd spelling on the 1851 census doc shows how far away from the actual name you can get! Likewise the US census for Charles with Jackius. No wonder I've been struggling to find some relevant documents and transcriptions , how did you find the 1851 census, given the name variance? I ask because your approach might help me in other cases. Julie |
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Dea | Report | 1 Aug 2019 14:17 |
It was a mixture of trying everything I could think of, which you just have to do with cases like these. |
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Julie | Report | 1 Aug 2019 16:43 |
Thanks Dea, using wildcards is something I seem to struggle with, several times I've tried starting with a wildcard and had a message that it isn't allowed, I can only assume that different sites have different "rules". I must try your approach with some other problem surnames in my family where the problem is often with the start of the name. |
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Dea | Report | 1 Aug 2019 16:54 |
If the site doesn't accept a wild card at the beginning then I just put in all the info I can and search without a surname completely. It can often take a long while but if you then just scroll down the list a surname can often pop out at you as a possibility. |
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Julie | Report | 1 Aug 2019 17:18 |
Thanks for that, I have tried census searches without a surname and sometimes come up trumps. |
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Julie | Report | 1 Aug 2019 17:41 |
Digging on Thomas Baker a possible husband for Sarah, sister Ann married William Baker, she was his second wife. William had a son Thomas with his first wife. He is of an age to have married Sarah. I haven't been able to track his movements/life so far. It looks like I might need to shell out on a copy cert, it being a reg, office marriage, to see if father's names etc. match up. |