Arthur Jenkins

Arthur George Jenkins (7 February 1887 – 19 May 1963) was a South Australian cricket Test match umpire. Early life Jenkins was born at Woodville, South Australia on 7 February 1887. He was the son of a butcher, William Jenkins, who died of tuberculosis in 1895, and Jemima "Mina" Patten. William came from Yealmpton, Devon, England, and arrived in Australia on 28 April 1858 on the Storm Cloud. Mina was born at Port Noarlunga, South Australia, on 26 May 1861. Her parents had travelled to Australia from Armagh, Ireland, aboard the Admiral Boxer on 21 August 1855. Arthur Jenkins had a sister, Eleanor May (b. 1883), and three brothers, Frederick Charles (1889-91), Stanley Robert (b. 1893), and William Roy (b. 1892). When the father died, the three surviving boys were farmed out to people who would take them.