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In
AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE
OF

JOHN GINNS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
Sept 11th 1886
AGED 64 YEARS

SO TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS THAT WE
MAY APPLY OUR HEARTS UNTO WISDOM

ALSO OF
ROWENA GINNS
Died Jany 4TH 1905
AGED 77 YEARS

AND NOW LORD WHAT IS MY HOPE.
TRULY MY HOPE IS EVER IN THEE.


John Ginns was born in 1822, the sixth (known) child of Samuel Ginns and Sarah Balmford. He. He was an agricultural labourer, and may have been an invalid for the last few years of his life (see 1881 census).

He married Rowena Robinson in 1851. Rowena was born in 1827-1828, the daughter of Stephen Robinson and Ann Aprice. Rowena and John had seven known children, all of whom were working in the shoe trade at some time.