Benjamin Ginn of Royston & London d. 1888

Benjamin Ginn was son of Benjamin in my post of  8th March 2014 and was a Coachman.  He moved to Wandsworth in Surrey though kept in touch with all in Royston.  He first married Eliza Crane at St Saviour, London in 1843 and the couple had five children.  It is unclear when Eliza died but in 1879 he remarried Elizabeth Drew and the couple retired and moved back to Royston  He died in a London hospital in 1888, but is buried at Royston. Eliza died in 1892.

It is evident that the two sons grew up with Dad with a love of horses.

Their five children


Mary - was a servant and died unmarried aged 30 in 1874

Benjamin - joined the 17th Lancers - see post of 25th July 2012

Willliam John - at some point this man also joined the Cavalry, in his case another fine regiment –  “the Blues”  ie Royal Horse Guards, part of the Household Cavalry at Buckingham Palace.  He was in barracks in London in 1871 and was a Trooper.  Yet another Ginn to have obviously come across Queen Victoria.

He clearly left the regiment in the 1870s and subsequently married Harriet Clarke at Eton in 1878 and became a  Police Constable, presumably in the Buckinghamshire Constabulary.

William John and Harriett had three children: 

                       William Benjamin      

                        Eliza Sarah          

                        Lawrence Arthur      
  

 William Benjamin Ginn  was also a Policeman in Buckinghamshire and  in his 50s married Rose Welford in 1930 in Thame.  He died in 1942 and Rose who was a good deal younger as late as 1982.   No children known.  Eliza was alive at the time of the 1901 census and is believed to have emigrated. Lawrence died in World War One – he was a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery.  It seems likely he was at Gallipoli and may have been taken prisoner/wounded and he died in 1916 in Turkey.  He is on the Slough War Memorial below

William John  died in Slough in 1909.  Harriet had died in 1903.

Thomas - died in Wandsworth in 1865, aged 15

Eliza Ann - married the much older Thomas Weston of Royston at Bloomsbury in 1891.  They had two children and lived in Royston