Son of John in my last post. Given the challenges of his early life, George did
exceptionally well for himself. He was originally with brother David at Walthamstow where he married Elizabeth Callandine in 1818, then 25.
They moved to Tottenham where George set himself up as a market gardener in Marsh Lane. He held 40 acres of land in and around Marsh Lane, the market gardens were apparently on the north side, and employed 6 men.
Tottenham Baptist Church in 1909
Tottenham Baptish Church (which still stands) was built in the 1820s and soon built a congregation of several hundred people, which clearly came to include George and Elizabeth. This was to have significant consequences, because George brought up his nephew Fred after his brother Charles died in 1848 and the Baptist link was passed on, some of Fred's Ginn descendants were Baptist missionaries wordwide, being sent forth from this self same church.
Tragedy struck in 1837 when Elizabeth died in an accident. The pair had been out in their gig and had stopped for their horse to take water somewhere in Kingsland, Hackney. An omnibus came by and startled their horse which took fright and bolted with Elizabeth on board. Elizabeth was thrown from the gig but when it crashed it ran over her head and she was killed instantly. The Inquest is reported in “The Times” no less.
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Nothing
of her death at all was known until this information was discovered in
2008. Elizabeth was 45. She is buried in a Maze Pond Baptist Cemetery in Southwark . George remarried Elizabeth Cambridge some time after in 1839.
Tragedy struck in 1837 when Elizabeth died in an accident. The pair had been out in their gig and had stopped for their horse to take water somewhere in Kingsland, Hackney. An omnibus came by and startled their horse which took fright and bolted with Elizabeth on board. Elizabeth was thrown from the gig but when it crashed it ran over her head and she was killed instantly. The Inquest is reported in “The Times” no less.
Nothing
of her death at all was known until this information was discovered in
2008. Elizabeth was 45. She is buried in a Maze Pond Baptist Cemetery in Southwark . George remarried Elizabeth Cambridge some time after in 1839.
George and Elizabeth took in his nephew Frederick when Fred was orphaned in 1848 and it
seems clear that Fred and Uncle George were close, Fred
initially helping George with the business and then taking it over, for Fred was
later to also be a Market Gardener. After Fred married his uncle George lived with he and his wife until George's death.
Elizabeth
died at Tottenham in 1852, George dying in 1878 aged 84.
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