Name | Jane (Jennie) Lynn (Williams) | |
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Suffix | Caterer in Dunedin | |
Nickname | Jennie | |
Born | 30 Mar 1862 | Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England ![]() |
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Event: | 22 Apr 1862 | Faringdon Poor Law Union meeting minutes ![]() |
Board meeting held on 22 April 1862 includes.. The Clerk laid before the Board Mr Maskelyne's account for Midwifery attendance on Priscilla Williams, Little Faringdon, 10s 6d. | ||
Christened | 4 May 1862 | Langford, Oxfordshire, England ![]() |
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Gender | Female | |
Census: | 2 Apr 1871 | Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire (then in Berkshire) ![]() |
Thomas Lynn, head, married, aged [33?], agricultural labourer, born Little Faringdon, Berkshire Priscilla Lynn, wife, married, age 30, born Oddington, Gloucestershire Jane Lynn, daughter, age 9, scholar, born Little Faringdon, Berkshire Harriett Lynn, daughter, age 7, scholar, born Little Faringdon, Berkshire Joseph Lynn, son, age 5, scholar, born Little Faringdon, Berkshire George Lynn, son, age 2, born Little Faringdon, Berkshire Elizabeth Lynn, daughter, age 7 mths, born Little Faringdon, Berkshire James Lynn, father, widower, age 60, agricultural labourer, born Little Faringdon, Berkshire | ||
Census: | 2 Apr 1871 | Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire ![]() |
Thomas Lynn, head, married, aged [33?], agricultural labourer, born Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire Priscilla Lynn, wife, married, age 30, born Oddington, Gloucestershire Jane Lynn, daughter, age 9, scholar, born Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire Harriett Lynn, daughter, age 7, scholar, born Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire Joseph Lynn, daughter, age 5, scholar, born Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire George Lynn, daughter, age 2, born Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire Elizabeth Lynn, daughter, age 7 mths, born Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire James, Lynn, father, widower, age 60, agricultural labourer, born Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire | ||
Emigrated: | Dec 1873 | Passenger list of the Scimitar - Assisted emigration to Otago ![]() |
Families and children - 4 1/2 adults: Lynn, Thomas, age 36, Berkshire, Laborer Lynn, Priscilla, age 33 Lynn, Jane, age 11 Lynn, Harriet, age 9 Lynn, Joseph, age 8 Lynn, George, age 5 Lynn, Edith, age 1 Total cost of passage money to the Government: £65 5s. Advanced to Thomas Lynn £2. Large parties of emigrants on the Scimitar and the Mongol were recruited by Christopher Holloway, delegate to the National Agricultural Labourers Union. The story of the gathering of this party, including the Lynns, and the voyages of the two ships is told in The Farthest Promised Land by Prof Rollo Arnold, Chapter 3. | ||
Emigrated: | 23 Dec 1873 | Sailed age 11 with her family from London, England on the "Scimitar" ![]() |
arriving at Port Chalmers, Otago, New Zealand on 5 Mar 1874. The voyage was plagued by sickness and there were 26 deaths, including Jane's baby sister, Edith, age 1, of scarlatina. The voyage was one of the quickest on record being 67 days from land to land, and 70 days from the time the anchor was raised in Plymouth harbour, England. On arrival, due to the sickness on board, the Scimitar and her passengers were quarantined before being cleared on 18 Mar 1874. | ||
Event: | 1893 | Signatory to the NZ Womens' Suffrage Petition (which led to NZ being the first country to give women the vote) ![]() |
Priscilla Lynn and daughters Jenny Lynn and Harriet Lynn sign the main suffrage petition submitted to Parliament in 1893. The first electoral roll shows an entry which could be Jennie (seems possible) but Uncle Doug did not mention to me that his mother had been in working in Wellington prior to her marriage in Dunedin late that year: Wellington electoral roll - Jane Lynn, Tinakori Road, cook. | ||
Occupation: | Caterer ![]() |
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Jennie was a talented cook and caterer. She catered for dinners and parties for many of Dunedin\'s prominent families, including for the Theomins at Olveston. Lord Liverpool, the Governor-General was so impressed after one dinner in Dunedin that he asked Jennie to be the chef at Government House in Wellington (c 1913) when his chef was away. Jennie agreed and spent quite a period of time at Government House. In appreciation, Lady Liverpool gave Jenny a small poodle ("a stupid little thing" as recalled by son Doug Grant!). Jennie also catered for Sir Lindo Ferguson (of the Otago Medical School) and in 1924, this was how son Bill met his wife to be Aggie O'Donoghue, Sir Lindo's housekeeper at Wychwood on Sunshine hill. With her sister Harriet Lynn, Jennie also started up a tearooms in Musselburgh Rise, Dunedin. | ||
Died | 24 Nov 1929 | 26 Dundonald Street, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand ![]() |
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Buried | 25 Nov 1929 | Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand ![]() |
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Person ID | I10 | Grant |
Last Modified | 18 Nov 2020 |
Father | unknown | |
Relationship | Birth | |
Mother | Priscilla Williams, b. 7 Nov 1841, Oddington, Gloucestershire, England ![]() ![]() | |
Relationship | Birth | |
Family ID | F12 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family | William Grant, Gardener in Dunedin, NZ, b. 7 Apr 1847, Evanton, Kiltearn, Ross-shire, Scotland ![]() ![]() | |||||
Married | 18 Dec 1894 | House of Thomas Lynn, Musselburgh Rise, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand ![]() |
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Last Modified | 6 Apr 2018 | |||||
Family ID | F7 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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