Individual Details
JOSEPH Ginn
(1 Jun 1755 - 15 May 1807)
Joseph married Jane Game from Ashwell in Herts, quite some distance from where he was born. This suggests that he was very much on the move looking for work. Jane was born to Richard and Jemima Game (nee Saunders) in 1761 and Joe and Jane married at Ashwell in 1781.
Something induced the couple to move to Potton in Bedfordshire by 1784, the cause most likely being the availability of work, for in 1783, Potton (a successful market town) suffered a great fire "The Great Fire of Potton" which substantially damaged the town. During Joseph's life, Edward Jenner invents the Small Pox vaccine and the Industrial Revolution is now well under way. Not long after, in the 1830s, railways became the dominant form of transport and England changed forever.
Joseph and Jane had a son, named Thomas, who married Mary Surkett. Thomas was born in Potton but Mary was born in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. Mary appears to be descended from Richard Circute of Cambridgeshire. It is important to note that these villages are in close proximity to one another but are close on the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. When checking records, it is necessary to look in all three counties.
Something induced the couple to move to Potton in Bedfordshire by 1784, the cause most likely being the availability of work, for in 1783, Potton (a successful market town) suffered a great fire "The Great Fire of Potton" which substantially damaged the town. During Joseph's life, Edward Jenner invents the Small Pox vaccine and the Industrial Revolution is now well under way. Not long after, in the 1830s, railways became the dominant form of transport and England changed forever.
Joseph and Jane had a son, named Thomas, who married Mary Surkett. Thomas was born in Potton but Mary was born in Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. Mary appears to be descended from Richard Circute of Cambridgeshire. It is important to note that these villages are in close proximity to one another but are close on the borders of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. When checking records, it is necessary to look in all three counties.
Events
| Birth | 1 Jun 1755 | Croxton, Cambridgeshire | |||
| Marriage | 5 Nov 1781 | Ashwell, Hertfordshire - Jane Elizabeth Game | |||
| Death | 15 May 1807 |
Families
| Spouse | Jane Elizabeth Game (1758 - 1842) |
| Child | THOMAS Ginn (1786 - ) |
| Child | Joseph Ginn (1783 - ) |
| Child | Jane Ginn (1784 - ) |
| Child | Charlotte Ginn (1791 - 1791) |
| Child | Robert Ginn (1795 - ) |
| Child | Benjamin Ginn (1796 - ) |
| Child | Charlotte Ginn (1798 - ) |
| Father | THOMAS Ginn (1720 - 1779) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Mitchell (1726 - 1786) |
| Sibling | Lydia Ginn (1745 - ) |
| Sibling | Alice Ginn ( - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Ginn ( - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Ginn (1753 - ) |
| Sibling | Lucy Ginn (1757 - ) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Ginn (1759 - 1759) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Ginn (1760 - ) |
| Sibling | Charlotte Ginn (1762 - 1762) |
| Sibling | Robert Ginn (1764 - 1764) |
| Sibling | Charlotte Ginn (1765 - 1761) |