Re: Published Jenness Geneology?
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Published Jenness Geneology?
James E. Powers 5/15/00
On May 15 you asked the following question: "Has anyone written an authoritative genealogy of the descendants of Francis Jenness and Hannah Swain?" The short answer to this question is easy - No. A longer answer is much more complicated..
First, by my count there are probably a thousand or more "Jennesses" alive in the U.S. today. Even if all of them are descendants of Francis and Hannah (Swain) Jenness [they may be] no one knows who all of them are. Furthermore, Francis and Hannah had three daughters, as well as sons, These daughters all married and had children and their descendants are also Francis's descendants.Most of these people are unknown to the Jenness family because their identities have become disguised behind other surnames. There are at least eleven generations of such descendants.
Secondly, three of Francis' and Hannah's four sons are known to have married and raised families, and many of their children were daughters. These daughters and their children and subsequent descendants also acquired non-Jenness surnames, and over time mostly disappeared from the family's view. When their numbers are added to the other "married-outs", above, over the course of three centuries, their combined numbers add up to literally thousands of Francis Jenness descendants who are mostly unknown to family archivists. A crude calculation tells me that upwards of two thousand such individuals are alive at the present time.
Thirdly, many of Francis' and Hannah's descendants can't be found in the United States. For example, my father - an 8th generation descendant of Francis and Hannah Jenness - was born in New Zealand . Hisentire branch of the family from 1840 onwards has lived in New Zealand, Australia, or Canada [my home] or in a few cases are somewhere in Europe or Asia. These Jennesses are entirely unknown to most members of the family in the U.S. There are almost certainly other Jennesses or married outs from other branches, who are now "lost" because they live overseas.
Fourthly, several good accounts of sizeable parts of the family exist in manuscript or self- published book form, but none is authoritative for the family as a whole. John Scribner Jenness [1872] and later Eloise Jenness Leonard [1953] wrote about their "Richard" lines [he was Francis'and Hannah's youngest son]; Louise Tallman [1976] made corrections and additions to the many Jenness references in Parsons "History of Rye, NH"; Shirley Warburton Perrett Jr and Faith Perrett Hanson identified most of the descendants of Myron and Emily (Bennett) Jenness of Cherokee IA [1988]; and Robert Jenness et al [1995] assembled the most comprehensive available collection of information on Francis's son John's descendants. [This book also includes numerous"Richard"Jenness references]. A copy of my own self-published book on my ancestry [1998] is in the MormonFamily History Center in Salt Lake City UT. However, the most authoritative documentation of who's who in the Jenness family at large seems to be housed in genealogicial working files compiled by about a dozen or two of Francis' and Hannah Jennesses descendants.
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