Thomas Ginn of Highgate d. 1870

It  took me some time to trace this man, as I was researching before the computerisation of records that exists now.  I only found him by a reference in the Estate Duty records pertaining to his father's death - for his father Tom snr see my post of 17th February 2013.

Thomas Ginn married Caroline Constable at Hornsey in 1816.  It took me until 2007 to find the reference (Pallots Marriage Index).

Thomas was certainly living in central Highgate by the close of the Napoleonic Wars.  He was (of course) a Carpenter, and at one time was also the agent for the Alliance Fire Insurance Company.

In 1838 disaster struck.  The London Gazette reports that “Thomas Ginn, late of High Street Highgate Middlesex, Carpenter, Builder and Under-taker, and Assessor of the Queens taxes” a prisoner (obviously in a debtor’s prison) was effectively declared insolvent.  Thomas appears to have got himself out shortly afterwards, but his family would probably have had to go in with him (like the parents of Charles Dickens) and whether it be the Fleet Prison or the Marshalsea I have no idea.

Caroline Snr died in 1846, she was 51 and is buried at Hornsey.   It was not until 2007 that a second marriage for Thomas was discovered.  He remarried a Matilda Higgins under the name of Gin. 

The family always lived in the Highgate area.  In the 1851 census, they were at 148, North Road, Hornsey. 

Thomas died in 1870, aged 77 and is buried at Hornsey.  The certificate quotes gangrene as the cause of death (so he was probably a diabetic).

In the 1871 census, the widow Matilda has her mother, Priscilla living with her.  Her mother had the name of Treversh.  

In 1870, Matilda was the informant on Tom’s death cert.  In 1881 she was a Nurse (domestic) in Hornsey.  It is not known when and where she died.

Thomas and the two wives had ten children:

Thomas - married Ann Gascoigne in 1842.  The following children are known

            Ann Elizabeth 1844

            Caroline         1845

Both children died in infancy. Ann died in 1845 aged 28, giving birth to Caroline who followed a few weeks later.  Thomas (a Carpenter) died in 1848.  

Mary Ann - in the 1851 Census she was unmarried.  I seem to remember coming across her in a later Index in which she was also unmarried.

Caroline - alive but unmarried in 1851.  She later married James Bedford in 1855.

 

Charles -  see later

John and Emily - died infancy

Elizabeth - married Charles Bowmaker in 1849

Keziah - died in 1852, aged 23.  Buried Hornsey

Amelia Sarah - died in 1853, aged 17.  Buried Hornsy

Matilda - Matilda was a Dressmaker in Hornsey in the 1881 census.  It seems that she died a spinster in Elham district in Kent in 1939