[Illustration] This ancient family is supposed to be of French
extraction, and the name to be derived from Guisnes near Calais. The
first in the pedigree is Edmund Jenny, of Knoddishall, in this
county; grandfather of John Jenney, of the same place, who died in
1460; who was father of Sir William, one of the Judges of the King's
Bench in 1477. Edmund, second son of Sir Robert Jenney, of
Knoddishall, who died in 1660, married Dorothy, daughter and
coheiress of Robert Marryatt, of Bredfield, from whom the present
family descend.
See Davy's Suffolk Collections, Add. MSS. 19,137, p. 181.
ARMS.--_Ermine, a bend gules cotised or_.
Present Representative, William Jenney, Esq.