Walter Cowling Fynn

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Walter Cowling Fynn

Walter Cowling Fynn (1858-1916)

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Walter Cowling Fynn was born in the December quarter of 1858 at 10 Parker Street, St Andrew the Great, Cambridge. His parents were Thomas Cowling Fynn and Maria Martha (nee Cross).

He.was not living at home at the time of the 1881 Census. He was living, as a ‘visitor’, at Eliza Goodbody’s. She ran a lodging house at 3 Norwich Street. I have traced a marriage in the December quarter of the following year, between Walter and a Kate who I later found to be a ‘Goodbody’ also listed at 3 Norwich Street, St Andrews, at the time of the census. There may be a reason why he was living there in that I conjecture that the first of their children was born in the same year as the marriage, 1882.

I have found 6 children of Walter and Kate:

	Harry Fynn: born in c.1885 in Kennington, London. At the time of the 1901 census Harry was 16 years and a green grocer’s porter in Cambridge.
	Constance Fynn: born c. 1887. I have found no specific trace of her but a Constance Fynn married an Alfred C. Cooper in Cambridge in 1918.
	Sydney A. Fynn: born 1889 in St Andrew the Less, Cambridge. He was living at home with his parents, at 14 Stockwell Street in 1901.
	Dorothy M. Fynn: born 1892 in St Andrew the Less, Cambridge. Again Dorothy was living at home in 1901.
	Percy G. Fynn: born 1894 in St Andrew the Less, Cambridge. Percy was at home with his family in 1901. He married a Claudia J. Smith (Bn: 1896) in 1922 in Cambridge.
	Gladys H. Fynn: I list Gladys because I suspect the she is the Hilda G. Fynn listed as having been born in 1896 in St Andrew the Less. Gladys was aged 4 years and living at home in 1901. Hilda married Francis C. Phillips in 1920, in Cambridge.
	Similarly I mention Stanley Fynn. He was born in 1898 also in St Andrew Less. There is a record of a Stanley Victor Fynn dying in the same parish aged "0". I suspect that Stanley is an infant of the same family.

I also suggest that Mildred V. Fynn born in 1882 in St Andrew the Less, the parish where Kate’s mother had her lodging house, is a child of Walter and Kate. The 1901 census has a Violet Fynn of the right age as a domestic servant. Maybe she simply didn't like the name Mildred.

By the 1901 census I find that Walter Cowling Fynn was living with Kate (40 yrs.) at 14 Stockwell Street, Cambridge. He was a painter and decorator by trade. His family as listed above, other than Mildred Violet Fynn and Stanley Victor Fynn were at home with them.

Walter Cowling Fynn died in Cambridge in the December quarter of 1916. The GRO index has it that he was aged 54 years but he was born in the December quarter of 1858 which would have made him 58 years.

I have not found a death record for his wife Kate but I have only done an index search to 1925 when she would only have been 64 years.

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