Richard Ginn of Broxted d. circa 1720

Richard here is the last of the six surviving brothers and brother of the guys in the last five posts.  He is the only one who can definitely be said to have Ginn/Gynn descendants alive today.

Information on this did not appear until 2005/7 but I am reasonably certain that Richard first married Mary Reed at Saffron Walden in 1695. (Boyds Marriage Index)  Richard was 23. I looked at the register but found no children.  This is not surprising because Mary has been found to have died at Saffron Walden in 1696 (NBI)

At some point in about 1699 he clearly married a Martha and moved to Broxted in Essex (not far from Saffron Walden) with a couple of his brothers but I cannot find a marriage entry.  I  know nothing much about them and it is possible that they lived elsewhere before Broxted.  It is also possible that there were more children than those shown but I doubt it - Martha may also likely have been a widow and possible older than Richard.   I have assumed that Richard was a labourer.

                                Broxted is quite beautiful

What I do know is that they moved from Broxted in about 1708.  This was about the time that his brothers Philip, Jacob and Abraham were n the move to Middlesex and whether Richard and Martha eventually went with them is a moot point, although a court case with Richard as a witness in 1713 seems to have placed him near Debden at that time.

What is also obvious is that he and Martha did not live to bring their children up, as these were clearly brought up by their uncles in Enfield.  But where Richard and Martha died is as yet a continuing mystery.

Richard and Martha had four children:

Aquila - was clearly orphaned.  At some point, I am not sure when, he moved to Enfield in Middlesex.  He was clearly brought up by his uncles Abraham and Philip.  In 1729 he married a Mary Flane at Enfield and was a Labourer.  They only had one child:-

Richard 1730

`Enfield, like all towns of the time, was not a healthy place.   Aquila died in 1730; he was 29.  I have been unable to discover what happened to Aquila's widow and Richard.

William - moved to Enfield. He died there in 1729, aged 26

           

Philip - moved to Enfield with his brothers.  Clearly brought up by his uncles.  In 1739 he married a Sarah Standon at Enfield.  They did not have any children.

Philip lived on Clay Hill, Enfield.  He was a Labourer/Small-holder, though referred to as a Farmer in a book on Enfield Chase, by the historian David Pam.  Like other people in the area, he exploited the common land of Enfield Chase for all it was worth.  The Rate Books show that he held a few acres of land on Clay Hill and other land at the bottom of Clay Hill; where Clay Hill, Baker Street and Forty Hill all met in the old days.

Yet another Ginn  to be caught by the high rate of disease in Enfield, Philip died in 1742, aged 39.  Sarah carried on in the ratebooks as "widow Ginn"and appears to have died in 1768.

Richard -  has Ginn descendants - see later post