William Ginn's sons scattered fairly widely and there were lots of grandchildren. These also scattered very widely (sometimes frighteningly so) and research is only just beginning to find some of them. Many are still untraced though and there is much scope for further research here - " could do better" as my old schoolteacher used to say !
On 5th December 1704 “Thomas Ginn sonne of William
Ginn of Braughin in the Countie of Hertfordshire Miller” was bound as a carpenter’s apprentice to a William
Everard for seven years and assigned to Thomas Lindzy Citizen and Merchant
Taylor of London (Carpenters Company Records – see above).
Those same records show that Tom was made a
Freeman of the Company of Carpenters in January 1713 (above) and set himself up in
business as a Master Carpenter apparently, taking a number of apprentices himself over the next
twenty or so years, including William Ginn (his nephew from Braughing ) in 1723.
Thomas married Sarah Ton at All Hallows London Wall
in 1712, just before he finished his apprenticeship. The
Company of Carpenters was based (as were the businesses of most of its members) on London
Wall. Their Hall is still there. Unsurprisingly Thomas first used All Hallows, London Wall church for the baptisms of his children and, in fact, ran his business from that area for the rest of his life.
All Hallows, London Wall
Thomas and Sarah had a good number of children, the first couple being baptised at All Hallows, from which point Tom started to use St Giles without Cripplegate which was just down the road. They are in the Land Tax for that area. Ironically this was the same church that his very distant cousin Arthur Ginn attended and was churchwarden of at the same time (see post of 29th October ) and I have wondered if they ever spoke
Hogarth - Lord Mayors Show 1747
Thomas seems to have established himself well within the
Carpenter’s Company, being one of the two standard bearers for them in the Lord
Mayor’s Show of 1733. This sadly is the last entry in the Carpenters Company records and unfortunately there was a good reason for that as Tom was unwell, he had tuberculosis and was buried at St Giles ("a Carpenter") in 1734, he was 47.
As we have seen, St Lukes, Old Street was founded in the 1720s out of St Giles parish and Sarah died of a fever and was buried there in December 1739. The church is shown below and remains unchanged but is now a concert venue. Sadly I as yet know nothing of her family.
Tom and Sarah had seven children and I am working on trying to trace them:
Tom and Sarah had seven children and I am working on trying to trace them:
Thomas - there were two, the first died in infancy- untraced
William - believed to have died as a young adult but uncertain
John - born at St Giles in 1716 he is believed to have become a builder/bricklayer and gone into adjacent Shoreditch - married Elizabeth Bellas at Westminster in 1737. There were issue. Research awaits.
Henry - born in St Giles in 1720 he is believed to have married Rebecca Wiffin at Bethnal Green in 1753. Untraced further yet.
Ann and Elizabeth - untraced
Henry - born in St Giles in 1720 he is believed to have married Rebecca Wiffin at Bethnal Green in 1753. Untraced further yet.
Ann and Elizabeth - untraced
Edward - I only know he is the son of Tom Ginn the Carpenter in London because of his apprenticeship indenture. This did not come to light until 2018. He was born in about 1723. He was apprenticed
to the splendidly named Benjamin Littlewort. Ben was a haberdasher, also from Essex. Ben was granted his Freedom in 1687 so was about 70 when he took Edward on as an apprentice in 1737 ( Ben died in 1748) and it must have been a miserable existence for Edward.
But Ben's shop was in Still Alley, Houndsditch (where Liverpool Street Station is now - I know this area well) and this was no more than a 10 minute walk to the Barbican, where Ned's Mum lived. But Edward who came from a family of carpenters and builders, obviously
thought working in a shop unmanly, because he clearly left. He seems to have joined the Navy. You will not find a whisper of this guy on Ancestry or Findmypast - but I remembered - you need a good mind in the Law - that I had seen the guy - so I looked up
the BMD registers - London's shady clandestine marriages at the Fleet before 1754 and the non conformist and secondary sources - and sure enough there he was. He married Sarah Kennell at the Mayfair Chapel in the West End in 1752. It was a clandestine affair, because his bride Sarah Kennell who came from St Georges, Queen Square (Bloomsbury) was 18. Her parents were Stephen and Sarah Kennell (married 1727) who lived in Theobalds Road, Holborn - Stephen, surprise surprise, was a Carpenter/Joiner.
There is a deed from 1745 in the National Archives of a Stephen and Sarah Kennell of Theobalds Road Holborn selling an inherited property from a Thomas Kennell in Hastings, Sussex - so Stephen had come into London from there.
In 1749 they established the British Lying in Hospital for Married Women at Brownlow Street , Holborn. See engraving .
It was felt that women should get a more professional maternity service and it was
staffed by professional midwives and matrons with a couple of Doctors and Surgeons (no other men allowed- quite right too). There were 20 beds for women from all over the country.. You had to have a sponsor to get in. Quite a number of the inmates were the wives of navy and soldiers. The only child I can yet find for this couple (Edward was obviously away a lot)
was in 1758. Sarah Ginn was admitted - they have the most amazing records - which tell you age of woman, name address and occupation of husband, admission, leaving, date of birth and christening of child and name of sponsor. Sarah was sponsored by Lady "Betty" Germain - see below - who was a very wealthy 18th century philanthropic widow.
The child was John Thomas Ginn who for some reason I am sure lived. So now I am looking for him and more on what happened to Edward and Sarah
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