Ginn Family History
Presented here is the genealogy of my Ginn and Ursel families.
Ginn History
Our Ginn family descends from William Ginn (b 1450, d 1520) - William was a fairly prosperous Yeoman farmer in rural Hertfordshire during the late medieval period.
Take a look through 18 generations of our Ginn family history. Our direct male Ginn ancestors also include brief profiles but do go to the Ginn Hertfordshire Blog by Dr Michael Taylor for more complete biographies.
In England, as Dr Taylor has said: "by the late medieval period (1400s) there were broadly three distinct (but likely related from earlier times) Ginn families in Hertfordshire which I have broken down loosely into:-
1. The Aston Family
2. The Stevenage Family
3. The Ware Family
1. The Aston Family - This is the family that has the most (virtually all) of the Ginn family descendants arising from Hertfordshire alive today. The oldest known ancestor of this family is William Ginn, a yeoman farmer (c1450-c1520)". (Ginn Hertfordshire Blog by Dr Michael Taylor)
A little over 100 years ago, several brothers, sons of John Ginn from Bedfordshire emigrated to Canada and settled in a very young Ottawa.
Our earliest known ancestor on the Ginn side is Sir John Perient, born in 1350 in Gascony, France. Sir John is ancestor to Mary Gill who married John Ginn in 1661/2 in Anstey.
Ursel History
Also here is the genealogy on my mother's side. Her name was Ruth Mildred Ursel and she descended from Germans. Her father, Adam Ursel from Reichau in Galicia and on her mother's side, Rumpel and Uhrich who had emigrated from Bukovina which was, in the day, part of Austria. It was re-populated in the late 18th century by Germans who were brought in to farm the land and to provide other skilled labour.
"Following the Austrian take-over, the Hapsburg emperors began recruiting experienced farmers, craftsmen, miners, glass workers and foresters to settle the area. Joseph II published the Patent of Settlement in 1782 promising eligible immigrants free transportation from Vienna to their new homes, a house with a garden, fields, draft animals, no taxes for the first 10 years and exemption from military service for the eldest son. Several thousand Germans emigrated from southwest Germany (Baden, Württemberg, the Palatinate), Bohemia and the Zips mountain region of what is now Slovakia". (Read: The Bukovina Germans in Lewis County, Washington by Mary Lee Rose, 1996)Today this region is split between Ukraine and Romania and is no longer known by it's former name. As land became scarce towards the end of the 19th century and also due to increasing political tensions, her ancestors moved on - to Canada and other places including England, Germany, USA, South America and also other parts of Europe. The known history goes back into the 1400s, in Germany. Our earliest proven ancestor on the Ursel side being Peter Urich, born in Hüttenthal, located in Hessen, Germany in 1390.
The story of our Ursel family, in Canada, begins in Winnipeg. It is a complicated tale which includes numerous characters and locations all over The Prairies. The story takes place over the early part of the 20th Century. Many immigrants ended up in Winnipeg because of the promise of free land. Many did get their allotment but none of our direct family did. They had to find other ways to eke out their livings.
Direct male Ginn and Ursel ancestors' given names are shown in UPPER case.
Genealogy, like all historical research, is expanding rapidly and many new untapped resources are becoming available. So, while the present information is very good, it is entirely possible for new information to become available. However, as with all things about families, we will never know the whole story.
A project like this may contain errors because of a range of issues. To the best of my knowledge, the information contained here is accurate. So, if you notice something seems not quite right then please let me know.
Warning: Not everything you see or read on the internet is true or accurate. Looking for family information - on sites like Ancestry, FamilySearch, Geni, Rootsweb, Wikitree (or any site where people can post unverified data) - finds tons of information - not all of it is correct, be very careful. Only trust information from official sources or that which can be corroborated from reliable sources.
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