Your monument shall be my gentle verse
That eyes not yet created shall o'er read
And tongues to be, your being, shall rehearse
When all the breathers of your world are dead
You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen
Where breath most breathes - in mouths of men

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Sunday, 7 September 2014

William Ginn of Great Munden d. 1828

William here was the son of John in my last post.  It is to be regretted, but as so often with the Munden family, I know nothing more than names and dates.

William was a Labourer.  He lived in Gt. Munden all his life and died there in 1828, aged 75.  The age quoted in the register is exactly correct.  Sadly that is all I know.



A Hertfordshire couple of a slightly later period but the smock frock of the labourer was universal of the 19th century

Sarah, "the wife of William Jenn" died in 1794, presumably in childbirth.  There is no evidence that William remarried.

William and Sarah had five children:

Thomas - went to live in Sacombe.  See  later post

James - likely went to Cottered - see later post

William and John - have not been traced.

Sarah - married James Lincoln in 1818

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