George Ginn of Farnham and Bishops Stortford d. 1880

George here, brother of John in my last post was a Labourer.  Like many of his brothers. he was fairly often in minor trouble with the authorities when a young man.

He got involved with Ann Carter who came from Henham in the late 1820s, and they had William and Ann before they married at Newport in 1831.

In 1851 the couple were at Bishops Stortford (Bramble Field) but they were at the Essex coast (Southend area) in 1861 where some of the Farnham Ginn family ultimately ended up.   Ann died at Bishops Stortford in 1866 with a quoted age of 60.  

In 1871 George was in a lodging house in Bishops Stortford and he died in Bishop Stortford Workhouse in 1880 aged 71,

George and Ann had four children

Ann - apparently died as an infant

William- alive in 1841 but untraced thereafter,   It is unlikely but he may be the William who died in the Northfleet disaster - it is either him or his first cousin - see post of  19th July 2012      


James - the 2nd Battalion of the 10th Regiment of Foot went on a recruitment drive in 1858 as they were shortly going to be sent overseas.  They were quite successful and three recruits were James Ginn here, his first cousin also James Ginn (see post of  19th September 2015   ) and a certain William Wherry.  Wherry was a bit of a hard case until he married and became a changed man, but he served alongside the Ginn boys and as an illustration of this later Sergeant of the 2nd Battalion I post his photo below

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James never saw active service, being mostly on garrison duty, either home or abroad.  He served five years in the nice posting of the Cape of Good Hope, ie South Africa, but spent twelve years in India and Burma, enduring their climate and successive bouts of illness.  He could have come home in 1872, but elected to volunteer into the 37th Foot and later the 44th, finally being discharged in 1878 aged 41 "tired and worn out" as the army put it.  He was considered fit only for light work subsequently.

James married Ellen Ginn (nee Prior) widow of his first cousin Edward in 1880 (see last post) and took upon himself responsibility for the stepchildren, having Martha, Ellen (Nellie) , Thomas , Elizabeth and Daisy themselves.  I know that James has no Ginn descendants, but likely has other descendants by his daughters.  Considering his health, he did well to die in 1917 aged 80.  Ellen's death entry is unclear.

George - married Judith Holland at South Shoebury (Southend) in 1856.  They had no less than ten children, one (George) born before the marriage - namely George, Mary, James, Susannah, William, Emily, Eliza, Elizabeth, John and Walter.  The family all decamped to the Southend area where George snr was a Brickmaker.  He died there in 1911, Judith in 1915.  All four sons married and there are a lot of descendants as you might expect.