This page is a work in progress. What's shown here reflects family recollection gathered so far; anything marked "to research" is a known gap, not a guess. Nothing on this page has been invented to fill a blank.

The Jenkins family

A family tree, still being written

Four generations, from a coal miner's house on Miskin Street to the people reading this now. Built from letters, memory, and the certificates still to be found.

At a glance

The direct line from Emlyn's parents down to today. This shows only the core descent; the fuller picture, including siblings, in-laws, and the branches still to research, is below.

Generation 1

Daniel Jenkinscoal miner, Treherbert
Elizabeth "Bessie" Jenkinsnée Perkins

Generation 2

Emlyn Jenkins1910–1993
Kathleen Mary Robinson1911–1987

Generation 3

Pateldest · never married
Wynne1937–2012
Wendy
Barbaram. Frederick Thomas · youngest

Generation 4

Gary Thomas
Matthew Thomasm. Sarah, this project
Alison Willis
Lucy Thomas

Generation 5

Sophie
Harry

Follow a line back

The diagram above is the map. Each of the three family lines now has its own page, built from the certificates in the Archive, where every fact links to the document that proves it.

A note on privacy

Everyone from Emlyn's generation down to Matthew's own children appears somewhere on this page, but not with the same level of detail. For anyone still living, especially the youngest generation, this page deliberately leaves out full birth dates and a few personal details that are really theirs to share, not this website's to publish. Full family records are kept privately, and family members can see the fuller detail by logging in.