William Ginn/Gynn of Tottenham d.1860s

William Ginn here was son of Richard in my post of 24th March 2013 .  Over his life (not I suspect as a result of a conscious decision by Bill but more because of the spelling by the parish clerk - his surname became Gynn and this it stayed.) 

Bill was a labourer in the brickfields at Tottenham for much of his life. He married Sarah Merry who was also from Tottenham (born 1804 to William and Ann, William being a Sawyer) at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire in 1823, possibly marrying there because Sarah was underage and did not have her Dad's consent, her mother having died in 1814.

For the greater part of their early married life (at least until 1851) Bill and Sarah lived at Ship Yard which was next to the "Ship" public house on the west side of the High Street.  Research indicates that this was built in the 1830s replacing a nearby Inn which had been demolished years before.   The pub still stands and is shown above.  There was a yard at the back which now seems to be what is perhaps optimistically called a "beer garden" and I believe that there was a cottage there where the Ginn family lived. 

As I say, the Ginn surname went through a transformation to Gynn during Bill's lifetime.

Both Bill and Sarah were alive in 1861, but the Tottenham churchyard closed in 1857 and neither of their deaths being registered, I do not know exactly in the 1860s when the couple died.

William and Sarah had ten known children, they were not scrupulous in having them baptised and there could be more:

Caroline -  born in about 1827, she was a Corset maker (Gynn indexed as Gegan) in the 1851 census.  She claimed to be 24 and was at Stoke Newington.  No record of her thereafter has been found

William- see later post

James - see later post

Louisa - In 2010 she was traced and clearly married George Partridge of Camberwell in Surrey in 1852.  I cannot find them as a couple thereafter, George later appearing as a widower.  She likely died in childbirth soon after the marriage

Eliza Perry - A servant at Stoke Newington in 1861.  Married William Rule at Shoreditch in 1865.   They were at Tottenham in 1871 and she died in Whitechapel in 1881.  No children known

Elizabeth Jane - married Joseph Sawyer at Edmonton in 1856

Richard - died infancy

Sarah - there were three of that name, unfortunately none seem to have survived childhood