Son of Jacob in my post of 13th January 2013 , he got around a bit,
did this lad. He
married Hannah Phillips of Edmonton
at the Fleet in 1736 (RG7 686). He was described as a Husbandman of
“Edmington”. They were married by Walter Wyatt, one of the most notorious of
the Fleet’s somewhat sordid clergymen at rooms called “Wheeler’s” in Fleet
Street. I think we can assume that the Enfield family were there because his first
cousin Richard was to marry at the same rooms before the same clergyman little
more than three months later. He married Hannah in 1736, and they had
three children (see below) before she died in 1758. The same year
he married Sarah Tatum. She was stated
to be an Edmonton
girl, but the banns were read in the Parish of St Peter le Poor, in the
City. So Jacob (like one or two other
Ginns) was clearly in and out of the City of London
as the fancy took him.
All Saints, Edmonton in the snow
Sarah gave Jacob four
more children, then she died in 1765. He
remarried Sarah Plater, but she was a widow and clearly past childbearing.
I was astonished to
discover in 2005 that this guy appeared in front of the Old Bailey in
1753. He was charged (but acquitted) of
theft and highway robbery. The full text
is given on the Old Bailey Proceedings website, but the gist is as follows
Hornsey, where Jacob jnr is buried
Jacob was working as a
labourer on fields between Edmonton and Hornsey in the summer of 1752, lodging in the house of a John Rumbold. The fact that his son Jacob was buried at
Hornsey in 1751 suggests that they lodged there for seasonal work for a year or
two. The facts were disputed, but it appears that a dozen or so Irish workers
(in England for the summer harvest) came
to Rumbold’s house at about 11 at night on July 12th 1752 and
started a fight with Rumbold and the two men who lodged with him. It seems likely that Rumbold had refused to
employ the Irish workers and they were annoyed.
The Irish set about Jacob and all and eventually Jacob (who had armed
himself with a scythe blade) overpowered his assailant and cut him a little.
Jacob apparently said (his friend’s evidence) that the Irishman was minded to
murder him and “he (Jacob) had a good mind to cut his head off”. The Irishman said that Jacob had started it
and had also robbed him.
The Old Bailey of the1700s
Jacob and all his
friends were acquitted. Independent
witnesses supported their story and three men (one, George Hind, had known him
for thirty years) gave evidence for Jacob’s character “a very honest
pains-taking man”. Whatever the outcome, it must have been a worrying experience for Jacob and his family. For the full story see http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17530111-12-defend130&div=t17530111-12#highlight
For a long time I could
not find Jacob’s burial (the Edmonton register is very full) but he seems to
have been the Jacob “Jain” who died in 1783 - he was 66.
Sarah died in 1774.
Jacob and his first two wives had seven children:
Judith - was the only survivor. Born in 1760, she got together with William Field of Edmonton (born 1755, son of Lawrence & Sarah) in the late 1780s and
they had Sarah, 1788, Samuel 1790, Thomas Lawrence 1793 and Lawrence in 1798. William Field seems to have been a commitment phobe and in 1796 Judith had
obviously got fed up with it and banns were read at Edmonton for her to marry a
William Peel (lest this be an error and for Peel read Field) but nothing came of it and she and William got back together and finally wed in 1798 at Enfield. For respectability's sake William claimed to be a widower (which was likely why they married at Enfield as all the kids were stated to have Judith as the mother) but had clearly been living with Judith and the kids all along. There are sufficient issue and descendants known to make me sure that the couple and thus Jacob Ginn have descendants alive today. Judith died in 1831.
John, Sarah, Elizabeth and Hannah - also died in infancy
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