Jacob Ginn of Edmonton d. 1739

Until 2009 (when their marriage entry was discovered) I had next to no information on this family other than the basics which had been discovered before 1995.  They lived too early for surviving Edmonton records, and I have not checked manorial papers (if any survive).

The Enfield Local Studies Library have been very helpful:  they suggest that Jacob lived in Lower Edmonton (where the main settlement was, then).  He certainly did not live in Southgate

  

Jacob just appears in the Edmonton register in 1710, having travelled to the area with his brothers Abe and Philip, possibly under the influence of their stepmother who came from Enfield.  He was obviously attached to his later wife Elizabeth early on because they lost a child in 1710 but he did not make an honest woman of her until the next year when  Jacob Jin [sic]  Husbandman of Edmonton married Elizabeth Warner of the same at the Fleet in 1711 (RG7 018).  I was very pleased to finally find the marriage entry, which I had searched for for nearly some twenty years.

Edmonton was sadly no healthier than Enfield.  It was not heavily built up, not really developing until the late 19th century.  However, it was on the main road out of London. That road carried disease, just as it carried trade.

Jacob died in 1739, he was 51.  Elizabeth did not outlive him for long: she died in 1741, almost certainly of smallpox (see below).

Jacob and Elizabeth had eight children:

Mary - died in 1741 (aged 19) and buried on the same day as her mother (hence my deduction of smallpox).  Another of the name died in infancy.

Elizabeth - three of the name died in infancy.

Jacob - see later post

Rebecca - untraced

Philip - died infancy