Descendants of John Kenrick (Oct 1753

Descendants of John Kenrick (Oct 1753 - 21 Apr 1823)

Died: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
Succeeded to Wynn Hall
Cheesefactor at Whitchurch, Salop
Went to USA in 1794 to escape creditors, leaving his wife and family.
Sailed on the Hope from Liverpool
Became a naturalised US citizen
Returned to England early 1797

married at Enfield, Middlesex, 13 September 1781, Sarah Savage (31 Aug 1759 - 8 Aug 1839)

Born: London, England.
Died: Great Boughton, Cheshire, England.

John Kenrick (29 Jun 1782 - 8 Jul 1803)
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
Died: London, England.
Sarah Kenrick (28 Jul 1783 - 21 Sep 1852)
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
Died: Great Boughton, Cheshire, England.
Spinster
School teacher at Bryn y Ffynon school, Wrexham
Mary Kenrick (Mar 1785 - 7 Jul 1844)
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
Died: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
Spinster
School teacher at Bryn y Ffynon school, Wrexham
Martha Kenrick (18 Oct 1786 - 1856)
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
Died: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
married 1817, George Lewis (ca 1790 - 18 Feb 1855)
Died: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
Surgeon
- Martha Lewis (23 May 1818 - 29 Apr 1870)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Mentone, Alpes-Maritime, France.
- John Kenrick Lewis MRCS LSA FOSL (21 Oct 1819 - 26 Oct 1876)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: 101 Macquarie St, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
  Surgeon
  married 21 Dec 1856, Georgina Henrietta Mure -
  35 Dublin St, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
- George Lewis (21 Oct 1819 - in infancy)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
- William Kenrick Lewis (14 Jul 1822 - 1856)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Surgeon
- Sarah Jane Lewis (1 Jul 1825 - )
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
- George Savage Lewis (11 May 1827 - 1838)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
- Philip Henry Lewis (20 Dec 1830 - )
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
- Matthew Henry Lewis (10 Apr 1831 - 8 Jun 1863)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Chailly, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.
- (3 other children died in infancy)
Elizabeth Kenrick (15 Mar 1788 - )
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
married Jean Paul Epperin -
Swiss citizen
Lydia Kenrick (25 Aug 1789 - Feb 1875)
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
Died: Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales
Spinster
School teacher at Bryn y Ffynon school, Wrexham
Samuel Savage Kenrick (25 Oct 1790 - 14 Apr 1871)
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
Emigrated to Hillsdale, Michigan, USA
married 22 December 1830, Hannah Edwards -
- Sarah Hannah Kenrick
Dorothy Quarrell Kenrick (6 Apr 1792 - in infancy)
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
Richard Kenrick (11 Mar 1793 - 7 Jul 1816)
Born: Whitchurch, Shropshire, England.
Died: London, England.
William Kenrick (24 Sep 1796 - 10 Jan 1865)
Born: Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England.
Died: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
Proprietor of Wynn Hall Colliery.
married 1836, Sarah Edmondson (c 1812 - aft 1881)
Born: Lancashire, England.
- William Wynn Kenrick (1837 - 1892)
  Born: Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Morawhanna, British Guiana.
  Mining Engineer
  Commissioner of Mines, British Guiana
  married 17 Jun 1861, Mary Anne James (1 Aug 1836 - )
  Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  - Lydia Marian Kenrick (c 1862 - )
    Born: Denbighshire, Wales
    married 1896, Harold Lloyd Rawlins (1855 - 1934)
    Paddington, Middlesex, England
    Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
    Died: Erpingham, Norfolk, England.
    - Dorothy May Champin Rawlins (1898 - )
      Born: Shifnal, Shropshire, England.
  - Hubert Wynn Kenrick OBE, RD, RNR (9 Jul 1863 - 13 Mar 1939)
    Born: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
    Died: Walmer, Kent, England.
    Educated: USA
    Cadet ship Conway at Liverpool
    Joined P&O as a junior officer 1885
    Served in the hospital transport Malacca in 1897 during the Benin expedition and Cretan troubles.
    Served in troopship Malta during Boer War 1899-1900
    Commander SS Soudan, troopship 1911-1914
    Commander RMS India mail steamer 1914
    Admiralty War Staff December 1914-1918
    Admiralty merchant shipping intelligence officer from 1916
    married 4 Apr 1892, Alice Edith Beal (1856 - 9 Feb 1937)
    St John's, Penge, Croydon, Surrey, England
    Born: Gellibrand, Victoria, Australia.
    Died: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, England.
    - Charles Hubert Wynn Kenrick (1894 - 26 Aug 1969)
      Born: Croydon, Surrey, England.
      Lawyer
      married 30 Apr 1925, Marion Ruby Bailey ( - 16 Mar 1979)
      4 Hawksburn Road, Hawksburn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
      Born: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
      - Charles Wynn Kenrick 1 Mar 1926 - 2 Mar 1926)
        Born & Died: Berwick, Victoria, Australia.
      - Dr Josephine Beal Wynn Kenrick PhD (1929 - )
        Honorary Fellow, Faculty of Botany, Melbourne University
  - Anne Sarah Kenrick -
  - John Painter Kenrick (1865 - )
    Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
  - Mary Katherine Kenrick (1867 - )
    Born: Walsall, Staffordshire, England
    married 1893, Allan Deacon (1858 - )
    St Philip’s, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England
    Born: Widnes, Lancashire, England.
    Artist, Painter
    - Brigadier Henry Wynn Deacon CBE DFC RA (ca 1894 - )
      Born: Paris, France.
      married 30 Dec 1924, Jessie Moira Greig (1898 - )
      St Mary Abbott's, Kensington, Middlesex, England
      Born: Hendon, Middlesex, England.
      - Sheila W Deacon (1926 - )
        Born: Kensington, Middlesx, England.
      - Henry W Allan Deacon (1932 - )
        Born: Eastry, Kent, England.
        married 26 Jun 1971, Aprille Hite - )
        Born: USA.
    - Allan Kenrick Deacon (ca 1896 - )
      Born: Paris, France.
  - William Hamilton Kenrick (1868 - )
    Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
  - Minnie Myfanwy Kenrick (1870 - )
    Born: Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales
  - Muriel Yerbury Kenrick (1878 - )
    Born: St Fagans, Glamorgan, Wales.
- Sarah Savage Kenrick (1838 - 1914)
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
  married 18 Jul 1856, Thomas Edward Minshall (ca 1837 - )
  Chester St Chapel, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
  Born: Oswestry, Shropshire, England.
  Died: Hampstead, Middlesex. England.
  - William Kenrick Minshall (1870 - )
    Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
- John Kenrick (1840 - )
  Born: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Smelter and Iron Founder
  married 1885, Benedicta Foulkes (1843 - 1906)
  Westminster, Middlesex, England
  Born: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales.
- Arthur Hamilton Kenrick (1844 - )
  Born: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Civil Engineer
  married 1882, Sarah Jane Morton (c 1843 - )
  Kensington, Middlesex, England.
  Born: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England.
- Samuel Llewellyn Kenrick (1847 - 29 May 1933)
  Born: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Died: Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Solicitor of Ruabon
  Founded Football Association of Wales
  married 1909, Lillian Maud Taylor -
  Kensington, Middlesex, England
- Herbert Archibald Kenrick (1853 - 12 Mar 1939)
  Born: Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Denbighshire, Wales.
  Land Agent
Anne Kenrick -
Born: Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England.
Edward Kenrick (10 Feb 1801 - 15 Jul 1889)
Born: Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England.
Emigrated 1 Jun 1832, to USA
Died: Monroe, Michigan, USA.
married [1] Phoebe Ellen Hopkins -
- Jane Anne Kenrick (Sep 1837 - )
  married Smith Davis -
- Sarah Elizabeth Kenrick -
married [2] 27 Oct 1844, Sarah Kalder, ne Wilcox (c 1811 - 10 Dec 1884)
Born: White Creek, Washington, New York, USA. Died: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Edward Arthur Kenrick (25 Aug 1845 - 1 May 1918)
  Born: Allegany Co, New York, USA.
  Died Los Angeles, California, USA.
  Farmer
  married [1] 9 Feb 1869, Elbertina Marks (1848 - )
  Born: New York, USA.
  - E Llewellyn Kenrick (18 Jun 1871 - )
    Born: North Adams, Michigan, USA
    Telegraph Operator
    married 14 Jun 1894, Nellie Gaylord Welch (6 Dec 1870 - 6 Dec 1944)
    North Adams, Michigan, USA
    Born: Kansas, USA.
    Died: Machias, Cattaraugus, New York, USA.
    - Harold Kenrick (6 Feb 1897 - Sep 1968)
      Born: Wisconsin, USA.
      Died: Rochester, Monroe, New York, USA.
    - Aileen Kenrick (Feb 1900 - )
      Born: Bronson, Michigan, USA.
  married [2] Ella A Pulver (1858 - 7 Apr 1879)
  Born: Michigan, USA.
  Died: Jefferson, Hillsdale, Michigan, USA.
  married [3] ca 1881, Lucy Ivy Kenny (May 1849 - )
  Born: Ohio, USA.
  - Earl Wellington Kenrick (22 Apr 1883 - 2 Jul 1944)
    Born: Hillsdale, Michigan, USA.
    Died: La Mesa, California, USA
    married [1] 25 Dec 1907, Grace Hebblewhite (1881 - 5 Nov 1908)
    Armada, Hillsdale, Michigan, USA
    Born: Michigan, USA.
    Died: Hillsdale, Michigan, USA.
    - Walter Edward Kenrick (28 Oct 1908 - 11 May 1986)
      Born: Hillsdale, Michigan, USA.
      Died: El Cajon, California, USA
      married 25 Jun 1930, Dora Belle Steele (20 Mar 1910 - Apr 1996)
      San Diego, California, USA
      Born: Plain View, Nebraska, USA.
      Died: Santee, California, USA
      - Walter Edward Kenrick (28 Oct 1933 - 9 Dec 2003)
        Born: San Diego, California, USA.
        Died: El Cajon, California, USA.
        Lieutenant with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department
        married 3 Jan 1954, Dorothy Jean Gibson (1 Aug 1934 - )
        Chula Vista, California, USA
        Born: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA.
        
        Jeannie Lynn Kenrick (28 Mar 1960 - )
        Born: San Diego, California, USA.
        married ? Ewing -
        
        Kindy Kay Kenrick (18 Aug 1961 - )
        Born: San Diego, California, USA.
        married ? Jerman -
      - Earl Milton Kenrick (16 Jan 1938 - )
    married [2] Florence Pearle Mosher (1883 - 1969)
    - Maurice Duane Kenrick (16 Dec 1911 - 28 Apr 1912)
      Born: Dayton, Ohio, USA.
      Died: Dayton, Ohio, USA.
- Edwin Hamilton Kenrick (25 Aug 1845 - )
  Born: Allegany Co, New York, USA.
  Druggist
  married 24 Dec 1866, Caroline A Fuller (9 May 1846 - )
  Adrian, Michigan, USA.
  Born: Hillsdale, Michigan, USA.
  - Maud C Kenrick (14 Mar 1871 - )
    Born: Pioneer, Ohio, USA.
- Ellen A Kenrick ( - 18 Dec 1865)
  Died: Hillsdale, Michigan, USA.
- Elon R Kenrick (Aug 1847 - 15 Oct 1864)
  Died: Hillsdale, Michigan, USA.

Sources:

Chronicles of a Non-Conformist Family by Mrs Wilfred Byng Kenrick
Dictionary of Welsh Biography
Knight-Adkin family papers
Wrexham Bygones: June 1887 p 334, July 1887 pp 340-344, Aug 1882 p 360.
Notes on Kenrick Families by W F Carter, The Genealogist Magazine Vols 24 & 25
The Descendants of Philip Henry MA by Sarah Lawrence 1844
Times Digital Archive

Additional information courtesy of Josephine Kenrick and Alison Brideson in Australia, Margaret Kalder Spas and Walter E Kenrick jr in the USA

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