Birth Name: Jenny-May Esther Whakairi Coffin
Place of Birth: Te Kuiti, New Zealand
Date of Birth: April 9, 1974
Ethnicity:
*father – Māori , 1/8th English, 1/8th Colonial American, distant Scottish
*mother – Welsh, and likely English
Jenny-May Clarkson is a former New Zealand netball player and vice-captain of the New Zealand national netball team. Jenny-May is the daughter of Te Waka Coffin and Patricia Myfanwy (Paddy) Davis. She is affiliated with the Ngāti Waiora sub-tribe of Ngāti Maniapoto.
Ancestry/Genealogy:
Jenny-May’s paternal grandfather was Charles (Charlie) Taare Kawhena Coffin. Charlie was the son of Charles Samuel Coffin and Ngareta Waiora. Charles Samuel Coffin was the son of an American whaler from Nantucket Island, USA named Alexander Thomas Coffin and Caroline Henrietta Bathurst who came from Greenwich, England.
Alexander was the son of Alexander Macy Coffin and Catherine Campbell. Through her paternal line Jenny-May is descended of Tristram Coffin who was born in 1609 in Devon, England and started the Coffin whaling family in Nantucket, USA.
Jenny-May’s paternal grandmother was Harata Rauputu.
Source:
Genealogy of the Coffin family: http://coffinnz.blogspot.com/2012/12/thank-you-waka-and-paddy-coffin.html
Genealogy of Alexander Thomas Coffin: https://www.geni.com/people/Alexander-Coffin-Jr/6000000019272726889
Wikipedia of the Coffin whaling family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_(whaling_family)
Grave of Alexander Thomas Coffin: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190718543/alexander-thomas-coffin
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