Your monument shall be my gentle verse
That eyes not yet created shall o'er read
And tongues to be, your being, shall rehearse
When all the breathers of your world are dead
You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen
Where breath most breathes - in mouths of men

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Sunday 25 September 2016

Joshua Ginn jnr of Weston d.1902

Joshua, son of Joshua in my last post was also a Blacksmith.  He married Emily Edwards at Ashwell in 1859.  The couple did not just live in Weston, but moved around  a fair bit on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire border.  I have not researched them in detail.  Joshua died in 1902 and Emily in 1925. 

Joshua and Emily had a huge family of thirteen children

Francis Joshua - married Frances Day in 1894.  From 1911 until his death in 1944 they held the "Red Lion" at Weston - below. 


Francis was also a Blacksmith - the family had been blacksmiths in Weston for 200 years and we have this great photo of him below



and he and Frances in later life


They had six children viz

Percy 


 Eustace 



Eleanor Olga 


Albert - who died as a child



George


Arthur Frank






All photos - courtesy of Kathleen Ginn


William - appears to have died infancy

Lilla - married Charles Randall in 1903

Charlotte - married George Mitchell in 1896

Emily - the second married William Logsdon in 1904

Henry - married Florence Wilson in 1899

Cordelia - married Frank Farr in 1899

Arthur married Ada Johnson in 1908

Olga - died infancy

Charles - never married.  Joined the Royal Naval Air Service in WW1 - another pilot in this family

Albert - died in 1917 unmarried

Louisa - believed to have died infancy



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