Arthur Ginn of Navestock d. 1734

Arthur Ginn here was clearly the son of John Ginn, Citizen of London (see my post of 13th September) and brought up by his aunt and uncle George and Hannah Brockwell (nee Ginn) after his parents died.  All I know is that Arthur Ginn was a labourer/husbandman, likely pauper by 1700.  I think that it is safe to assume that  his father did not live long enough to build any sort of business and when he died young left little of worth for his children to inherit and his wider family provided what support they could.

Arthur married Elizabeth Turnage at Shenfield in 1680.  Unfortunately her parish was not given.
 

The couple were at Shenfield until 1684 when they moved to Navestock. Arthur Ginn “of Navestock” is mentioned a couple of times in Essex Quarter Sessions records concerning a couple of incidents in which he was allegedly threatened.

The survival rate of the children through infancy was incredibly high however, suggesting that they were brought up carefully and in good domestic conditions.

It is also apparent that Elizabeth came from a good, likely yeoman class family given what I know of her sister. Unfortunately I do not know where she was born and the Turnage History Society have not been able to help.

That (like her sister) Elizabeth was quite religious seems clear, because I know that she had some involvement in the life of the extravagantly named Hippolito du Luzancy du Chastelet.  This chap was a Frenchman, a Catholic, who converted  to the Church of England in the 1670s and became first Vicar of Harwich and later Vicar of South Weald in Essex, the latter adjacent to Navestock.  Du Luzancy was a charismatic figure who wrote on the links between Anglicanism and the Catholic Church, rather than emphasing Protestantism.  He was very nearly killed for his beliefs by a Jesuit who threatened him in London at the outset of his ministry. Elizabeth Ginn clearly came under the guy’s spell and likely attended South Weald Church. because she was left money in Du Luzancy’s will when he died in 1713 (ERO).

The sad thing is that the parish clerk of Navestock between the years 1710-25 was either absent or completely negligent – in short, there are no baptism/marriage/burial records for virtually the whole of those years.  This has serious consequences for research concerning the children, and also means that I have no idea when Elizabeth died, although she clearly died between 1712 and 1726.   Arthur Ginn died in early 1734, I believe that he was 75 or so.

 

Ann Sach of Billericay

This lady gets a mention here because without her much of this post would have remained speculation and the daughters untraced.

She was born Ann Turnage and was Elizabeth Ginn’s sister. At some point she married into the large Essex Sach family but I do not even know whom she married.  She ran some sort of business in Billericay. The Turnage Family History Society (the name is apparently unique to Essex) have not been able to assist in the origins of the family but as I have said they were likely yeoman farmers.

Ann had no children who survived her and left money to Great Burstead Church, the poor of Billericay and numerous (and I mean numerous) nephews and nieces in her will.

She died in 1736 and is buried in Great Burstead Churchyard in a grave once marked with a wooden marker and a stone arch above (which is not mentioned on the list of surviving memorial inscriptions) and asked that a service on the basis of Isaiah 58 v 7, on the way to seek righteousness, be given at her funeral, which in her memory I reproduce below

“Is it not do deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house, when thou seest the naked that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh”

Arthur and Elizabeth had a huge number of children:

Arthur - see next post

Elizabeth - I found a marriage licence (ERO) for this couple years ago, thinking is impossible that Liz connected to the Study but she does. She married John Outing of Purleigh at Stow Maries in 1714 who I believe was a Yeoman.  They were at Danbury from the date of their marriage until 1721.

Known issue

Elizabeth

John

Mary

Both John and Elizabeth Outing snr were alive in 1732.  Liz snr was still alive in 1738 aged 55.    
 

Sarah - married Richard Munshall, yeoman of Billericay in Great Burstead at the latter church in 1712.  They had a large family and Richard left a will. Sarah was alive in 1738 then 54.  Research is continuing. 

Mary - married Robert Turner.  Both alive in 1732.  She was still alive in 1738, then 50.

Hannah - married John Hubbard of Navestock.  No register until 1725/6 but known issue

John married

Arthur (alive 1738)

Henry d 1726

Elizabeth  1727

Margaret 1728

Both John and Hannah Hubbard were alive in 1732 and Hannah was alive in 1738, then 47.

Grace  - a Ginn in 1732.  I am sure she married Alexander Baines at Cranham in 1733, likely a Scotsman or of Scottish descent. Alive in 1738 aged 38.  Not traced at present. 

Martha - was a Ginn in 1732.  Alive in 1738 - then 35. Untraced.

Thomas, Henry, Susan and Ann - both the will of their brother Arthur and their Aunt Ann make it clear they were dead by 1732 and, presumably, died without issue.  I think all lived to their teens.

John and George -  died in infancy