Case Family

I have received (22.02.2008) an email from a researcher into the Case family of Cambridge.

I am a member of Cambridge Family History Society and have just read your article Mystery Photograph.

My family connection with Cambridge is through the Case family, college servants. However in the 1841 census for St Michael, I have Emma Case living with William (a bookbinder) and Susan Fynn ( milliner) as an apprentice. In 1851 Emma, her sister Mary Ann Case and brother Peter Powell Case given as nieces and nephew are living with the Fynns.

William Case married Ann Wickes or Fynn? the parents of the above children and who named their youngest daughter Susan Fynn Case.

Do you know the connection as I wondered if Ann was a Fynn and whether this information is of any interest.

Maybe the Ann could be Ann Fynn, sister of Thomas Cowling Fynn and daughter of John 'Porter' Fynn. She was born in 1812 and would have been too young to have been the mother of Emma and Ann Case. But as they changed from being Apprentices to being nieces by 1851 then maybe their father married Ann Fynn/Wlikes in the 1840's.

Almost exactly a year later (24.02.09) I received another email from another Case family researcher:

I have researched the Case Family of Cambridge. I found your website through Googling Susan Fynn Case. I was interested to find out why the Fynn name was included as a second name in the Case family.

When her parents, William Case 1800 to 1856 and Ann Haselgrove 1802 to 1846 married on 4 June 1822 at St Clement's, Cambridge they had 2 witnesses, Susan Haselgrove and Joseph Case. Susan married William Fynn, I had not looked for their marriage, which I found on your website as 1826.

I have not tried to find Susan Haselgrove's christening record to confirm her parents but she is probably the sister of Ann Haselgrove, as Emma Case on 1851 Census was living with her Uncle and Aunt, it would support this relationship

As Susan was witness to their marriage and had her nieces to live as part of their household in 1841 and 1851 she must have had a close relationship to her sister . This may explain why her married name was incorporate as a second name.

It has become a noticible tradition in the Case family to incorporate the last name of the mother and other relatives as a second given name for a child.

My direct relative is William's younger brother Joseph Case 1802 to 1833 a Plumber who married Sarah Charlwood 1806 to before 1851. Their youngest daughter Caroline was born in 1845. She was my Great Grandmother. On the 1871 Census she was in service to the Rev William Watson, Vicar of Berkswell. The Rev Watson was the father of Maud and Lillian, 1st women to play at Wimbledon in 1884. As both the Rev and his wife came from Cambridge it is likely that Caroline got her job and moved to Warwickshire because of the Case connection to the University.

William and Joseph's father, Joseph Case was Porter at Caius College, Cambridge from at least 1815 to 1833. He was listed as a College Porter on the christenings of his children but when one of his daughter married in 1838 it named the College he worked at.

The website of the history of one of the

19c. Cambridgeshire FYNN families