Descendants of James Kenrick (May 1757

Descendants of James Kenrick (May 1757 - 26 Sep 1824)

Born: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales
Died: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
Inherited Chandlery in Wrexham
Banker of Hope Street, Wrexham
Owned property in Denbighshire & Shropshire

married Eleanor -

Cousin of her husband

John Kenrick (1795 - 1865)
Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
Died: Caernarvon, Wales.
Banker of Hope Street Wrexham
Only son
Spent his early years with foster parents
married Jane ? (ca 1794 - ca 1862)
Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
- Emma Dorcas Kenrick (1826 - 1909)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Devonport, Devon, England.
  National Schoolmistress, Cardigan, Wales
  married 15 May 1850, Henry Adkin (ca 1828 - 1883)
  St Mary's Church, Cardigan, Wales
  
  Born: Hathern, Leicestershire, England.
  Died: Guildford, Surrey, England.
  National Schoolmaster Abergavenny Monmouth, Wales (1850)
  National Schoolmaster Church Eaton, Staffordshire, England. (1857)
  National Schoolmaster Ardwick, Lancashire, England. (1861)
  Chaplain of Dumbarton (1871)
  Assistant Vicar of Oban (1875)
  Vicar of Leighland, Somerset (1876)
  Chaplain to Lord Forbes, Alford, Aberdeen (1881)
  - Harry Kenrick Adkin (1851 - 1928)
    Born: Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
    Died: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
    Educated: London University BA 1877
    Surname hyphenated by Deed Poll 1909
    Curate in Cheltenham in 1879-1884 (St John`s)
    Vicar of All Saints, Cold Salperton in 1884-1897
    Licenced Preacher, Diocese of Gloucester 1897-1899
    Vicar of Crudwell, Wiltshire, England. in 1899-1909
    also of Hankerton from Apr 1904-1910
    Vicar of Horfield, Bristol c1910- May 1921
    Acting Chaplain, Horfield barracks
    Canon of Bristol Cathedral, appointed 18 Jan 1922
    Mathematics teacher at Glyngarth School, Cheltenham for 20 years.
    married 9 Jan 1878, Georgina Elizabeth Knight (1849 - 1930)
    St Johns, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
    
    Born: Pimlico, London
    Died: 69 Alma Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
    Only Child
    - James Harry Knight-Adkin TD (1878 - 29 Jul 1948)
      Born: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
      Died: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
      Education: Keble College, Oxford, BA: History Master at Imperial Service College, Windsor
      Captain 4th (City of Bristol) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment MA
      War Poet: No Man's Land, Les Aura, Parapet and others
      Author: The Women Stealers (1905)
      Teacher at School for the Blind
      Fire Warden in WW2
      married 1923, Grace Evelyn Garner (1884 - 1966)
      Bristol, Somerset, England
      
      Born: Stroud, Gloucestershire, England.
      Died: Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England.
    - Walter Kenrick Knight-Adkin CB OBE DL (17 Aug 1880 - 24 May 1957)
      Born: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
      Died: 17 Miles Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
      Educated: Cheltenham College
      St Edmund Hall, Oxford BA 1907
      Wells Theological College 1907
      Ordained at St Paul`s Cathedral, London June 1908
      1908-1910 Curate in Kentish Town
      Chaplain RN
      
      1910 HMS Lancaster (31 May)
      1912 HMS Victory
      1913 HMS Conqueror (8 Jan)
      1916 HMS Victory (26 Jan)
      1919 HMS Revenge (5 Mar)
      1920 RN College Dartmouth (HMS Britannia) (1 Jan)
      1923 HMS Queen Elizabeth (6 Jan)
      1924 HMS Victory (2 Aug)
      1929 RN College Greenwich
      1929-1933 Archdeacon and Chaplain of the Fleet
      1929-1933 Hon Chaplain to HM George V and Canon of Portsmouth Cathedral
      1933-1941 Dean of Gibraltar, HMS Cormorant, The Deanery, Gibraltar
      1942-1945 Canon of Sparkwell, Plymouth
      1945-1956 Chaplain to the Lord Mayor of Bristol, St Mark`s College Green, Bristol
      married 20 Dec 1915, Elizabeth Cuff Napier (1891 - 19 Nov 1984)
      St Andrew's by the Green, Glasgow, Scotland
      
      Born: Scotland.
      Died: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
      - Peter Napier Knight-Adkin (1917 - 1918)
        Born: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
        Died: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
    - Frederick John Knight-Adkin (2 Jun 1883 - 19 Feb 1964)
      Born: 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
      Died: Buenos Aires, Argentina
      Emigrated to Argentina, 1906.
      married Jessie Nellie Scott Livingston (4 Dec 1884 - 1 Aug 1965)
      St John the Baptist, Buenos Aires, Argentina
      
      Born: Buena Vista, Gualeguaychu, Entre Rios, Argentina
      Died: Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    - Georgina Noel Knight-Adkin (1886 - 24 Jan 1955)
      Born: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
      Died: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England..
      Educated: Cheltenham Ladies College
      Photographer of Bristol
      Worked in munitions factory during WW1
    - Violet Doris Knight Adkin (1889 - 15 Aug 1908)
      Born: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
      Died: The Huts, Corston, Wiltshire, England.
  - Archibald Charles Adkin (1853 - )
    Born: Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
  - Frederick John Adkin (ca Dec 1857 - 20 Sep 1918)
    Born: Church Eaton, Staffordshire, England..
    Died: Mrs Anderson`s Boarding House, St John`s St, Kokstad, South Africa
    Educated: St Augustine`s College, Canterbury 1881
    1881-1884 Curate of St John`s Pro Cathedral Umtata, South Africa
    1884 Rector of Holy Trinity, Kokstad, East Griqualand, South Africa
    Canon (Apr 1901)
    Sometime Chaplain of CMR and chaplain of Kokstad Gaol ca 1911
    Officiated at the funeral of General Christian Botha
    married Louisa Tempest Walters ( - 31 Dec 1914)
    St Cuthbert`s Mission, Tsolo District, South Africa
    - Minnie Alice Violet Adkin (April 1884 - 2 Mar 1905)
      Died: 3 Woodville Terrace, Gravesend, Kent, England.
      married Herbert Leslie Thurnell MA MD LSA LRCP MRCS (1864 - 1 Nov 1938)
      St Pauls, Winchmore Hill, London
      
      Medical officer of Health for Gravesend
      - Richard Grainger Herbert Leslie George Adkin Thurloe Thurnell (8 Feb 1905 - 19 Sep 1930)
        Chartered Accountant
        Born: 3 Woodville Terrace, Gravesend, Kent, England.
        Died: Gravesend, Kent, England.
    - Arthur Kenrick Adkin (1888 - 10 Aug 1938)
      Bank Manager
      Born: Kokstad, East Griqualand, South Africa.
      Died: Bank House, Ladismith, Cape Province, South Africa.
      married Ada Emma Adlam -
      Kokstad
      - Betty Waterton Adkin (31 Jan 1921 - )
        Born: Ladismith, Cape Province, South Africa.
      - Arthur Basil Adkin (9 Jun 1926 - )
        Architect
        Born: Ladismith, Cape Province, South Africa.
        married [1], Marion Horsley ( - 1971)
        married [2], Glynne Driman -
      - Ada Peggy Adkin (14 Dec 1928 - )
        Born: Ladismith, Cape Province, South Africa.
      - Kenrick Noel Adkin (12 Dec 1930 - 28 Feb 1995)
        Born: Ladismith, Cape Province, South Africa.
        Died: 20 Berg Valley, Langerwacht Road, Kuils River, South Africa.
        married [1], Elizabeth Margaret Miles -
        married [2], Rosemarie Elizabeth Jefferis -
    - Ralph Kenrick Adkin -
    - Louise Phyllis Adkin -
  - Mary Adkin -
  - Alice Muriel Adkin (1860 - 1883)
    Born: Church Eaton, Staffordshire, England.
    Died: Guildford, Surrey, England.
- Mary Kenrick (1829 - 1905)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Llandudno, Carnarvonshire, Wales.
  married 1860, John Davies (ca 1827 - 1881)
  Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
  
  Died: Llandudno, Carnarvonshire, Wales.
  - John Kenrick Davies (1863 - 1863)
    Born: Carnarvon, Carnarvonshire, Wales.
    Died: Carnarvon, Carnarvonshire, Wales.
  - Thomas Lewis Kenrick Davies (ca 1863 - 14 Jan 1932)
    Born: Liverpool, Lancashire, England
    19 Jan 1909: Major, 6th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
    Lt-Colonel, RAMC
  - Edith Mary Davies (1865 - 27 Oct 1957)
    Born: Carnarvon, Carnarvonshire, Wales
    Died: Bodeuren, St Mary`s Road, Llandudno, Wales
  - John Kenrick Davies (1868 - 1949)
    Born: Carnarvon, Carnarvonshire, Wales
    Died: Hampstead, Middlesex, England.
    Ship's Purser, Private Tutor
    married 7 Sep 1909, Louisa Martin née Sanderson (1859 - ca 1934)
    St Paul's, Bayswater, Middlesex, England
    
    Born: Canterbury, New Zealand.
    Died: Devonport, Devon, England.
  - James Vincent Davies (1869 - bef 1957)
    Born: Carnarvon, Carnarvonshire, Wales.
    Dental mechanic
- James Howard Kenrick (1834 - )
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Master Chemist
  married 1889, Matilda Kate Henshaw (ca 1853 - 1917)
  Barton Regis, Gloucestershire, England
  
  Born: Northwich, Cheshire, England.
  Died: Devonport, Devon, England.

Sources:

Chronicles of a Non-Conformist Family by Mrs Wilfred Byng Kenrick
London Illustrated News
Crockfords Clerical Directory
Knight-Adkin family papers
Navy List
The Times Digital Archive

Additional information courtesy Margaret Blount in South Africa

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