Name | Joseph (Joe) Lynn | |
Suffix | Ironmoulder in Dunedin | |
Born | 5 Nov 1865 | Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England |
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Christened | 17 Dec 1865 | Little Faringdon church, Oxfordshire, England |
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Gender | Male | |
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. | ||
Education: | Dec 1874 | Joe gets 2nd place in the Second Royal Reader 2nd division end of year prizes at Caversham School |
Otago Daily Times 18 Dec 1874: CAVERSHAM DISTRICT SCHOOL. The annual examination of this school took place on Wednesday last. ... After the pupils had sung several school songs under the able leadership of Miss Freeman, Mr Anderson proceeded to distribute the prizes, a list of which is given below: ... SECOND ROYAL READER.—JUNIOR DIVISION. Boys: 1, George Cochran; 2, JOSEPH LYNN. Hon. mention — James Calder, Charles Sherrat, Henry Ashton [Perhaps Henry Ashton is a son of Isaac Ashton, friends of the Lynns who also arrived on the Scimitar that year] | ||
Education: | Bef 1878 | Andersons Bay School |
Listed in the 1928 Andersons Bay School Jubilee booklet as a pre-1878 pupil. | ||
Legal: | Feb 1885 | Joe Lynn suffers a broken jaw in a fight and presses assault charges. His father Tom is a witness. |
Otago Daily Times 21 Feb 1885: DISTRICT COURT. Friday, February 20. (Before his Honor Judge Ward and a jury of four.) J. LYNN v. J. TODEN. Claim of £50, damages for assault. Mr Denniston for plaintiff, Mr J, Macgregor for defendant. Mr Denniston, in opening the case for the plaintiff, explained that the reason why the case was not brought in the Resident Magistrate's Court was that the plaintiff was under ace, and there was no machinery provided whereby a minor could bring an action in the Resident Magistrate's Court. Joseph Lynn, labourer, living in Andersons Bay, said he was 19 years of age. On the 10th January he was working in a hayfield at Mrs Cuttens, Anderson's Bay. He was working late, and went down to the stable to unharness a horse. Foden was there, and asked him if he remembered the time when old Cutten chased him round the stable with a whip. Witness denied that such a thing ever took place. An argument followed about driving pigs, and various other subjects, which ended in Foden striking witness, who was knocked down. On getting up, Foden knocked him against the stable door. - On the 15th, witness went up to the stable to get the harness on his horse. Foden was there, and asked witness if he had got quieter. He said he had not, and an argument followed on his horse, and while witness was engaged in harnessing his horse, defendant caught him by the neck and pulled him backwards on the ground. He beat witness while he was on the ground. Witness got up with his face bleeding, and went outside to his father, who was in a neighbouring paddock. His father, a man named Ashton [Isaac Ashton – fellow Scimitar passenger with the Lynn family], and witness went back to the stable. Defendant then said to witness, "You and your old father want to tread on me," and after some words had passed witness was going out of the stable when defendant came behind him and struck him on the face, knocking him down and breaking his jaw. While he was down defendant struck him twice. Witness struck no blows. He then went home, and was under the doctor's care for a long time. Cross examined: Witness might have done a little boxing at Anderson's Bay, but never learnt it. He had fought at school. Isaac Ashton, labourer, said he saw young Lynn come into a paddock on the 16th with his face very much bruised. Lynn's father, witness, and plaintiff went back to the stable, Some words passed between Lynn and Foden. As young Lynn was going away from the stable Foden struck him from behind, knocking him down, and while Lynn was on the ground Foden struck him twice. When young Lynn got up he said his jaw was broken. Dr Roberts, surgeon in charge of the Dunedin Hospital, said he remembered seeing the plaintiff on the 15th at the Hospital. His face and eyes were considerably swollen, and his jaw broken. A human fist could occasion the injuries. A man's jaw could be broken by a blow on the side of the face, especially if the mouth were open. It would require a severe blow. Witness tied up Lynn's jaw. The injury would incapacitate him for eating solid food or working for some time. Cross-examined: Such an injury would probably mend readily in the case of a young man, and if the case turned out all right, his jaw should be as well as ever in a short time. A broken jaw was the last injury one would expect in a fight, but it happened occasionally. The usual way in which a jaw was broken was by a direct blow in the face. Dr B. W. Alexander said be examined the plaintiff on the 17th January, and found his face was a good deal swollen and bruised, his eyes bloodshot, and his jaw broken. He was then in bed. Such an injury would disable a young man for three or four weeks. Thomas Lynn said that when he saw his son in the paddock on the 15th he was knocked all to pieces, so that his mother would not know him. He went down to the stable with his son and Ashton, and Foden wanted to fight witness’s son in the stable. While his son was going out of the stable Foden struck him as described by the other witnesses. Cross-examined: When they went to the stable, Foden wanted to fight in the stable, and witness' son wanted to fight outside. When Foden knocked down his son, and struck him while he was on the ground, he went to Foden to have a good round with him. He would not have interfered if the defendant had not struck his son while down. Mr Macgregor said the case for the defence was that young Lynn challenged defendant to fight, and was struck on the jaw in a fair stand-up fight. If he had only got a black eye nothing more would have been heard of the matter, but because his jaw had been broken he was under the impression that he could recover damages. It was a mistake, however, to suppose that the law recognised any claim for damages when a man who provoked a quarrel got the worst of the encounter. Isaac Foden, the defendant, stated that on January 10 Lynn came into the stable while witness was grooming a horse, and said witness was not able to groom a horse. Some argument took place, daring which Lynn said witness was not fit to drive a pig, and that that ought to offend a groom. He said that witness was not man enough to stand up before him. Lynn said he wanted to offend witness. Witness went on with his work, and when about to hang up the harness, as he turned round he saw Lynn in a fighting attitude, and he struck witness in the eye. They then had a round in the stable, each doing his best. On the 15th Lynn came into the stable and said witness was not man enough to stand up before him. Witness told him that unless he was civiller than he was before he had better go out of the stable. Lynn again said witness was not man enough to stand before him. Witness said he thought he was. Lynn came towards witness in the stable, and they had one round. Lynn then ran out of the stable, saying he would bring someone to give witness a good hammering. Shortly afterwards be returned with his father and Ashton, and a man named Evans also came in. Lynn's father threatened to kick witness. Evans ordered them out of the stable, and got them out after using some force. Young Lynn used some bad language, challenging witness to go out and fight. Witness went out, and they had one bit of a round. Witness warded off Lynn's blows, and then hit him on the cheek. Old Lynn and Ashton then rushed in, and old Lynn struck him. Evans laid hold of young Lynn, and Ashton and witness fought with old Lynn. When he got away from old Lynn he went back into the stable. Cross-examined: On the 10th young Lynn marked witness on the eye. On the 15th witness struck young Lynn about six times, and the latter did not mark witness. Witness did not strike Lynn after he was knocked down. Henry Evans, gardener, employed by Mrs Cutten, gave evidence to the same effect as that given by defendant. His Honor having directed the Jury, they returned a verdict for defendant. | ||
Legal: | Feb 1888 | Joe a witness in a Magistrate\'s court trial re New Year revelry |
Evening Star 7 Feb 1888: THE COURTS-TO-DAY. ... RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. (Before Messrs C. S. Reeves and J. Green, J.P.s.) Ann Davidson v. William Evans, Ernest Evans, and David Fairbairn. Claim, £2, for trespass on land and damage to a fence at Anderson Bay. Mr D. D. Macdonald appeared for plaintiff; Mr E. Cook for defendants, — Ann Davidson, wife of William Davidson, but holding an order of judicial separation, said that she held from the Corporation a twenty-one years’ lease of her property at Andersons Bay. The lease was in her own name. About one o’clock on New Year’s morning she saw her fence in good order and condition. It was a post-and-rail fence. Next morning the fence was injured. Some of the posts and rails were lying flat on the ground. Four of the posts were lying down and the rails were broken. She estimated the damage at £2. The morning after the damage was done the younger of the defendants came and asked about the fence and inquired as to the amount of damage. Cross-examined: The fence had been erected about three months. It was not at all rickety. About 60ft of the fence was down. Witness had not pulled any part of it down herself, nor had she caused anyone else to pull any part of it down. —W. Davidson,son of the last witness, was watching the baking of a cake on the night in question, when he heard the fence cracking, and going outside he saw three persons moving away. He recognised two as Ernest Evans and David Fairbairn, but was not sure about the third one.— JOSEPH LYNN deposed that he met the three defendants close to Mrs Davidson’s house about a quarter past one on New Year’s morning.—Henry Giles and George Booth, who were with Lynn, gave corroborative evidence. ... The Bench gave a verdict for defendants with costs. | ||
Residence: | 1919 | 29 Musselburgh Rise, Anderson's Bay, Dunedin |
Property: | Dec 1946 | Joe sells land in Musselburgh - likely his residential property at Musselburgh Rise |
Otago Daily Times 18 Dec 1946: SALES OF LAND. OTAGO COMMITTEE. LARGE NUMBER OF CASES. The Otago Land Sales Committee — Messrs W. M. Taylor (deputy chairman), D. J. Ross, and E. Sincock —dealt with 155 cases yesterday. This was the second largest number considered this year. ... JOSEPH LYNN to Keith Harris, part sections 73 and 74, plan 1573, Musselburgh; purchase price, £1,2OO (reduced to £1,185 by consent). | ||
Died | 25 May 1947 | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand |
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Buried | 27 May 1947 | Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand |
Person ID | I779 | Grant |
Last Modified | 23 Jan 2023 |
Father | Thomas (Tom) Lynn, Dairy farmer and Market gardener at Andersons Bay, Dunedin, Social activist, b. 18 Jun 1837, Little Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England , d. 28 Aug 1909, Musselburgh Rise, Andersons Bay, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand (Age 72 years) | |
Relationship | Birth | |
Mother | Priscilla Williams, b. 7 Nov 1841, Oddington, Gloucestershire, England , d. 25 Feb 1933, 'Dunira', North Taieri, Otago, New Zealand (Age 91 years) | |
Relationship | Birth | |
Married | 14 Mar 1863 | Parish church, Langford, Oxfordshire, England |
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Family ID | F265 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family | Isabella Stewart (Belle) Taylor, b. c 19 Dec 1875, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia , d. 30 Oct 1940, 80 Musselburgh Rise, Andersons Bay, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand (Age ~ 64 years) | |||||||
Married | c 7 Dec 1898 | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia | ||||||
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Last Modified | 17 May 2020 | |||||||
Family ID | F652 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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