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Producing as it did Merchants and Bankers, Clerics and senior Army Officers, the very stuff of which the solid middle-class society of the day was composed, David Jenkins's settlement in Cornwall was nothing but advantageous to his adopted town. Unfortunately, the chapter is closed. As far as is known there are no male survivors to carry on the family tradition. | ||||||||
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Before It's ForgottenA Carmarthenshire Settler in CornwallThe eighteenth century saw the rise of Cornish copper mining from modest output to a boom of world significance. The absence of coal in Cornwall had meant that the export of the ore to South Wales ports for smelting was more economical than importing coal and smelting locally. A side effect of this was an exchange of populations resulting in colonies of Cornishmen in the South Wales ports, particularly Swansea, and Welsh settlement in the small ports of North Devon and Cornwall and in Truro, the commercial capital of the boom. The shipment of the ores seems to have been very largely a Welsh committment. The settlers brought to their adopted areas advantages and benefits. Not all, perhaps, as spectacular as the Vivians of Truro, later of Singleton, Swansea, who left behind a fine record of scientific, industrial, philanthropic and public achievements. Undoubtedly engaged in this cross-channel traffic was a Carmarthenshire man, one David Jenkins, beginnings unfortunately unknown, who founded a small but very worthy dynasty. According to Boase (Collecteanea Cornuhiensia 1890) David Jenkins "born in the county of Carmarthen 1717, came from Wales into Cornwall and settled at Truro. Commanded a privateer the 'Duke of Cornwall'. Mayor of Truro 1776." He is noted as "of Clovelly" when, in 1741, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Sylvanus Bowen of Malpas, Truro, who sounds like a fellow-countryman in the same line of business. The marriage resulted in six sons and one daughter, two or three of whom died young. Among the remaining children were:
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