Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-10-05

Ia the Cambridge Independent Press, an
English exchange, We iud the following his
tory Of the Jenoiugs Tor rather Jeuyns) estate,
which has troubled so many minds 10 Virginia :
THE JENNEN EsTATE.-A correspondent.
signing himself C; H. writing from lO4 Great
| Dover street. Southwark, says:
| viii you kindly allow me through the me-
| dunn OF your paper to explain the mystery
which has so long surrounded the property of
! William Jenyns, Of Acton Hall, in the county
| OF Suffolk, who died inteslate in the ye.r 1898.
1t has been represented by many of the JenL ing
ses that the parties who have right to the same
| must descend from one Humphrey Jennens, q
great iron master, who lived about the sixteenth
| century. This is mistake, for they could not
have been aware that William Jennens had at
the time he WAS living first cousin, John re-
| siding at Bottishsm Hail. in Cambridgeshre,
who would have been heir of the whole of the
property had he not died before the intestste
| 1.-THE family having his own writings to prove
! The samo.) Thus the existing branches being
descendants of the said JenJ lis, claim to be the
| only parties interested in the property of the
betoresaid William.
family: In the year 1868 there lived in the
county of Hartford one John Jenyns, who mar
rled Elizabeth Wrexham, the said John leaving
issue two sons John and Robert Robert, [
must particularly notice in connection with
these vast estates, left issue one son, William,
VINO died lntestate in 1928 leaving immense
wealth unclaimed. This has been the cause of
much public excitement among the Jenningses
| IN all parts OF England, ireland and the colonies
tor the pHst halt century, and the said Jennings
es have expended lage sums of money in en-
deavorlns to trace their .genealogy to connect
the interstate above named, but without success.
this being utterly impossible, the family who
are solely connected Herewith being from tho
beforessid John Jenyps of Bottisham first
cousin to the interstate. which can be proved by
the said Johns writings; wherein he States that
MS uncle Robert clothed him and sent him to
where he worked as aborer on the es tate, and
after the death OF his uncle Robert his first
cousin William, of Acton Hall, visited bin, ana
paid the money he allowed him. In the year
l7GS his first cousin William invited John to
visit him at Acton Hall, Suffolk He went and
remained with him week. The last visit vii.
liam paid to his cousin John he found him very
feeble, and their parting words we're: 1t we're
to meet no more on Earth, we hope to meet in
Heaven. John, of Bottishsm, being we'll aware
OF his relstlonship, particularly mentions in his
writings: If William Jenyns, of Acton Hall.
Suffolk, (my first cou<in) dies bachelor, or
without will, his property will all belong to
me, John Jenyns, of Bottshsm, who married
Elizabeth Taylor; and if am taken away first.
then it vii! 60 to my family at Waterbeach
Qhls place IS three miles from Bottisham)
The whole of these writings the present fam
lily are IN possession of to prove tie authenticity
of their statement. The father of John .Jenvns
of Bottsham, sold his property to his brother
Robert, which accounted for his son being 80
poor; but according to his own account thew
ever lost sight OF him, although they kept him
IN humble circumstances The family have also
evidence from many professional gentleman,
who pronounce them to be the only parties hav-
ing any claim to the late William Jenyn's prop
erty. as also from one of her Majesty's chap
lains, who had in his possession book belong
ing to the Acton estate, and before seeing the
pedigree some years since wished the member
If the family who waited upon him to spell the
name in question, and when told it was spelt
.Jenyns' Stated he was in possession of all the
particulars connected with the same, and that
they were the only family that had any claim
whatever to William Jenyn's property but he
never knew that there were any des :endants of
the John Jenyns, of Bottishsm, in existence, and
had the parties come forward ten or twenty years
back they would have saved his lordship who