My visit to the Forest in search of the Jenkins family (General)

by tkjensen , Laramie, Wyoming, USA, Monday, September 01, 2014, 23:57 (3739 days ago) @ tonyjenkins

Hello Tony,

My 4th great grandmother is Hester Jenkins--I believe she is the Hester Jenkins baptized in Newland in April 1805, whose parents were Ann and William. She had a daughter, Esther Elliss, whose father was William Elliss. I have not found a marriage record for Hester Jenkins and William Elliss, or a death record for William. Later Hester married James Coleman, a shopkeeper in Lydbrook. I have not found their marriage record either. Hester Coleman died in 1847 at age 42 and was buried at Newland. Her daughter married Joseph Cooper of Lydbrook in 1856, and died later that year in childbirth. Esther's daughter, Esther Cooper, survived and was raised by her father and his second wife, Fanny Coleman. Esther Cooper married Richard Yemm and they raised their children in English Bicknor and Worrall Hill in Lydbrook. Their children all immigrated to the United States; daughter Esther Yemm is my great-grandmother. (Esther Yemm's husband, Arthur George, is also a Forester, whose family came from Anchorberry/Lydbrook.)

I provide this history in part because you mentioned in a post (which I cannot now find) that a Hester Jenkins is your 4th ggrandmother (I believe), and I would like to learn if my Hester is connected to your Hester. Also, you have mentioned in several posts that you have a tree on ancestry. Can I access that through my U.S. ancestry.com account? I will be visiting the Forest with my mother in May 1915, and I would love to learn what I can about the Jenkins family in my line before traveling there. It's not truly a research visit, but we do hope to visit the places our ancestors lived and died.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Best,
Terri Jensen