Jenkins
Little John — Welsh thumbprint on English registers.
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The seat of Jenkins
Seat vacantChief
No chief yet. The seat awaits its first claimant — be the first to stake your name to Jenkins.
Current mission
No mission proclaimed. The chief, once seated, sets the clan’s public focus — a campaign, a contest, a piece of restoration, a year of remembrance.
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Stake your name →What does the Jenkins name mean?
Little John — John + Middle English -kin. Welsh Jenkin lines cross the border into Gloucester and Hereford.
The history of Jenkins
**Jenkin** is double-diminutive love — John, softened to Jankin, clipped again — the sort of name mothers called up stairs. Welsh **Ieuan** streams cross the Severn into Gloucestershire and Herefordshire; English clerks anglicised what they heard, and **Jenkins** became as English-sounding as oak while keeping a Celt edge.