If anyone can unravel this puzzle we would be grateful. We had got so far, and then left it as we were following other lines...then JohnP came up with further information and suggested that I leave a post here to see if anyone can tie up the loose ends...thank-you John, your help was much appreciated.
On the 1851 census for Beds; we have a John Jenks, widower, aged 57 residing, and working at, The Red Lion Public House, High Street, Beds. He has with him his 4 daughters. Augusta A Jenks, 26, who we know about as she is the line linked with us; Alicia Jenks, born 1834; Lavinia Jenks, born 1840 and Rosina Emily Jenks, born 1841. There is also a woman named Susan Jenks, aged 34, listed as a housemaid... on the Index she is Susan Jenks - but - the image has her as a Susan Page, born Cadon (?), Beds;!
Going forward to the 1861 census, we find John Jenks is still listed as Innkeeper at The Red Lion, but his age is now 62 (10 yrs after being 57???), and Susan F Jenks is now listed as being, 44, and the Innkeeper's wife, born Middlesex St James ?
We are assuming that John moved to Bedfordshire after a first (?) wife died, as we have him located in London during the years previous, and his first daughter is too old for Susan to have given birth to her...the second maybe...the later girls a possibility. From IGI, John found the marriage of a John Jenks to a Susan Frances Probutt at St Paul's, Bedford on 31st January, 1859. Sounds good, but now that means there are 3 different versions of Susan's name...or does John just like women with the name Susan?
If somebody could unravel all this, and hopefully answer the questions:-
Are Susan F Jenks, Susan F Page and Susan F Probutt one and the same person?
Was she the mother of any of John's children?
Is there any information regarding the years after 1861 about John, Susan or the younger girls?
We would love to hear about it.
Here's hoping!
Shalena
