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Given Name: Sarah
Surname: Jenkins

Gender: Female

Birth date: 17 February 1834

Birth place: Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales View Sources

Death date: 17 February 1916

Death place: Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States View Sources

Burial date: 20 February 1916

Burial place: Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States View Sources

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Father: John Jenkins
Mother: Emily Jones

Siblings

James, William (1830-1922)

Married 22 October 1854 in Neath, Glamorganshire, Wales *Castell-nedd, Glamorganshire, Wales

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Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 28 March 1857 aboard the ship George Washington.
Arrived in Boston, Suffolk, Massachuetts, United States on 20 April 1857.

James, Sarah Jenkins - Biography
Jenkins, Sarah and William James - Biography

Josephine James is the daughter of William and Sarah Jenkins James.

Ysticlau Farm, Llangendeirne, is where Sarah Jenkins James's parents (John and Emma Jones Jenkins) lived before Sarah was born. Their first three children were born at Ysticlau Farm. Sarah's grandfather Thomas Jenkin (b. about 1741) also lived at Ysticlau Farm (according to his will) where he and his wife had a large family.

Llangendeirne Parish - the burials of John Jenkins (Sarah Jenkins James's father) and David Jones (Sarah Jenkins James's maternal grandfather) are recorded in the registers of this parish.

Emma Jones (Sarah Jenkins James's mother) was buried in the village of Cwmavon, Parish Church of St. Michael, Michaelston-Super-Avon Parish, Glamorganshire.

Bryn-y-Gorse Farm is where Sarah Jenkins James's maternal grandfather (David Jones) farmed. This farm is right next to the Cerrig Coch Farm.

Cerrig Coch Farm, Llandefeilog, is where Sarah Jenkins James's father (John Jenkins) and maternal grandfather (David Jones) died.

Family picture standing (l to r): Josephine, David, Sarah Maria, William, Emily, and John.
Seated (l to r): William (father), Catherine, Sarah (mother).