Henry Ghinn (1819 to 1892)

Henry Ghinn (1819 to 1892) BWE 23 Jan 2009

Henry the son of Bemjamin and Mary Ginn was born in Bexhill, Sussex and baptised as Henry Ginn at the parish church

of St Peter, Hamsey, Sussey in 1819

He was barely four when is mother Mary died and only 16 when his father Benjamin died

He was articled to William Cubbit , Architect, London

In 1840 he sailed to Australia and worked in Sydney, NSW

Then in 1841-42 he went to England and then back again

In 1844 he married Jane Balmain in Sydney and went to work as the Clerk of Works in Port Phillip, in the Melbourne

area, Victoria

Four children were born (1845-51), the first baptised in Sydney and the others in Melbourne

Then in 1853 they all went to England, where three more children were born as Ghinn ( 1854-57) in Norwood,

South London, St Leonards, Sussex and West Derby, Lancashire

And also in 1857 Jane died, possibly in childbirth, in West Derby

Then in 1859 he married Sophia Hyslop in Marylebone, London and in 1861 an eighth child was born in St Pancras

and the second child aged 14 also died. The next year Sophia died and in 1866 the youngest child also died

Then in 1869 he took his six remaining children back to Victoria, and he died in Melbourne in 1892

Henry had four sons, two died young one is known to have married but it is not known if Henry had any

Ghinn grandchildren

The first child Mary, married a Mr Thomas and their grandson married one of Ernest Ghinn's grandchildren

An interesting biography of Henry is given in the Australian Dictionary of Biography at: