The surname Jenkins is of patronymic origin meaning "son of little John." The name Jenkins was originally found in Cornwall in South West England in the 11th Century but quickly spread to Wales where it is frequently found today. The name Jenkins is first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. Jenkins is the 95th most popular name in the United States with over 200,000 bearers residing there currently. A notable bearer of the surname Jenkins was the English music composer John Jenkins who was born in 1592 in Maidstone, Kent. In the 1650s Jenkins became resident music-master of Lord Dudley North in Cambridgeshire, whose son Roger wrote his biography. It was in these years, during the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell, in the absence of much competition or organised music-making, that Jenkins took the occasion to write more than 70 suites for amateur household players. John Jenkins died in Kimberley, Norfork in 1678..
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