Charles Fynn (Bn 1844)

Charles was in the 1851 Census entry at home but then I next found him in the 1901 Census, aged 56 years, living at 4 Burwood Cottage, Cross Lane, Milton, Kent. He described himself as "traveling in wines and spirits". With him at that address were: his wife Alice S. Fynn, 36 years born in Dorney, Bucks; a daughter Annie H. Fynn, 18 years, a draper’s assistant, born in Reading, Berkshire (I suspect that she may have been a daughter from a previous marriage); Alice B. Fynn, 5 years, born in New Brompton, Kent; Alfred V. Fynn, 3 years, born in New Brompton, Kent; and Ernest F. Fynn, 1 year, born in New Brompton, Kent. After some digging around, and tracing back, I  found an entry on the 1881 census. Charles and his family were then living in Gillingham in Kent where he was a draper. He had a whole different family with him. His wife then was Matilda and the children were:
Charles Fynn; Born c.1870 in Gillingham in Kent.
Walter Fynn; Born c.1872 in Gillingham in Kent.
Arthur Fynn; Born c.1877 in Gillingham in Kent.
Henry Hills Fynn: Born c.1879 in Gillingham in Kent.
Eleanor Mary Fynn: Born c.1881 in Gillingham in Kent - See below...
Annie H. Fynn; Born c.1882 in Reading, Berkshire.

The children of Charles and Alice were:
Alice B. Fynn, 5 years, born in New Brompton, Kent
Alfred V. Fynn, 3 years, born in New Brompton, Kent
Ernest F. Fynn, 1 year, born in New Brompton, Kent.

Some of his first family I have traced further: Matlida died in 1893; in 1901 Eleanor was a draper’s assistant in Eastbourne (But see below); Arthur was an ironmonger in Tormoham, Torquay; and Charles Jnr. was also a draper’s assistant in Maidstone.

I received an email at the end of 2007 from a Bob Blakey in Australia.  It is self-explanatory...

Hello Geoffrey,

I was given details of your website by Michael Williams after I contacted him about Charles Fynn.
As I explained to him, my wife's paternal grandmother was Eleanor Mary Fynn, daughter of Charles and Matilda, born in 1880.
In 1903 she married John Thomas Cornwell, a native of Eastbourne, at Maidstone and in 1904 the first of their two children, Herbert Henry Cornwell, was born in Eastbourne.
In 1915 the family migrated to Australia and settled in Chatswood, a northern suburb of Sydney, where my wife's father, Jack Arthur Cornwell, was born in 1916.
John died in Sydney in 1955 but Eleanor survived until 1975 when she died in Griffith (N.S.W.), the home of Jack and his wife Eileen.
I would be interested if you had any information about Matilda Fynn which you could share.

Best wishes, 
Bob Blakey

We can now show you the Marriage Certificate of John Cornwell and Eleanor Mary Fynn and can say from the 1911 Census that they lived at that time at 101 Sydney Road, Eastbourne.  The family was exactly as above but with an Elizabeth Stanbrook as a boarder. Eleanor died in 1975.  The extract of the Death Registration can be  viewed.

Please go to Robert Fynn for further information from Bob Blakey concerning Hannah Hills Fynn and other members of her husband's family, the Astles who emigrated to Australia before Eleanor and her family.

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