WINN, Benjamin

Benjamin Winn

[father of the photographer Charles Alfred Winn]

Benjamin Winn born circa 1843 Bishopsgate, Middlesex, England, the son of Thomas and Eliza Winn. His father was born in Bishopsgate, London about 1796 and his mother in St Luke, Middlesex about 1799. The 1851 census shows his father as a stationer and printer, living at 10 Sun Street in the London parish of St Botolph Bishopsgate. The 1861 census shows him at the same address, his occupation was then a stationer.

On 11 June 1864 at the Parish Church of St Mary Stratford Bow, London, Benjamin Winn married Susannah Farrants (registered June quarter 1864 Poplar 1c 1099), the daughter of Joseph Farrants a blacksmith. Benjamin Winn was then shown as a stationer. 

The 1871 census shows him residing at 25 King Street East, London, he was then aged 28 years and employed as a photographer. Also shown is his wife "Susan" aged 28 and children Benjamin Warren Winn aged 4, Thomas Rosher Winn aged 3 and George Augustus Winn aged 1. Another son Charles Alfred Winn was born in 1871 and a daughter Alice Rose Winn was born about 1875. (reg. Sep 1875 Hackney 1b 469)

photoLondon shows he had a studio at 25 King Street East, Hammersmith 1868 - 1871 and then at 369 Kingsland Road, Hackney 1871 - 1876.

Arrived Port Chalmers, Otago on the ship Piako. The Piako sailed London 5 November 1877 embarked passengers at Plymouth and sailed again on 20 November, arrived Port Chalmers, Otago via Plymouth 5 February 1878. Benjamin was listed as a carpenter aged 34 years other passengers included Susannah aged 33, Benjamin aged 11, Thomas aged 10, Charles aged 6 and Rose aged 2.

Benjamin Winn died 17 June 1921 aged 78 at Nazareth House, Sydenham and was buried in the Sydenham Cemetery block 40C plot 60. He was then living at 22 Angus Street, Christchurch, his occupation was shown as a photographer. His wife Susannah died the previous year.

children:

1. Benjamin Warren Winn born 1866 died 17 June 1940, reg. 1940/25983 aged 75 years, married 20 February 1889 at the residence of the bride’s parents, by the Rev D. Dutton, Catherine Gordon McGuffie, second daughter of John McGuffie, Surrey Street, South Dunedin, reg. 1889/820.

2. Thomas Rosher Winn born 1868, died 22 December 1944 Christchurch Hospital, reg. 1944/30368 aged 78 years, married 1889, reg. 1889/1640 Minnie Julia Hawker 

3. George Augustus Winn 

4. Charles Alfred Winn born 1871, Hammersmith, England, died 22 November 1946 Dunedin, New Zealand aged 76 years, reg. 1946/36207, buried Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin, Block 190, plot 11, married 1899, reg. 1899/3467 at Barbadoes Street, by the Very Rev Father Le Menant Des Chesnais, S.M., Vicar-General, Mary Ann Kearney, eldest daughter of the late Daniel Kearney

5. Alice Rose Winn was born about 1875. (reg. Sep 1875 Hackney 1b 469), died 1953 aged 77 years, reg. 1953/17722, married 27 November 1895 at St Saviour's, Sydenham, by Rev E. A. Scott,  reg. 1895/2124, William James Wills, eldest son of John Wills, Christchurch,

6. Florence Winn born 1880, reg. 1880/1807, died 23 January 1952 Christchurch Hospital aged 72 years, reg. 1952/19981, married 1920 reg. 1920/2702 Alfred Groves

7. William Henry Winn born 1883, reg. 1883/1395, died 1934, reg. 1934/8126 aged 50 years

8. Ada Mary Winn born 1886, reg. 1886/3871, died 20 June 1924 Coronation Hospital, Cashmere, Christchurch aged 38 years, reg. 1924/4174, buried Sydenham Cemetery, married 1911, reg. 1911/1517 Walter Joseph Mansfield

above - Benjamin Winn's headstone in Sydenham Cemetery, Christchurch in 2004.

Winn and Badier

Lawrence

 

also see Phillip Charles Badier 

 

Tuapeka Times, Volume XIII, Issue 648, 10 July 1880, Page 2

Sydenham, Christchurch

about 1880 to about 1921

Star, Issue 6926, 8 August 1890, Page 2

Meeting of Creditors.
re Benjamin Winn.

A meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of Benjamin Winn, photographer, Sydenham, was held at the Official Assignee's office this morning. Mr Bruges appeared for the debtor, and the petitioning creditor, Mr Thomas Richie, was represented by Mr Fisher. Mr Ritchie was the only unsecured creditor, the liability being £210. Besides this there was a debt of £100 to Mary Johnson, secured on certain property in Sydenham, the debtor's interest in which was put down as nil. Other assets consisted in £35 worth of furniture in excess of £25 allowed by the act. The debtor, in his sworn statement, said that he was a travelling photographer, and that his apparatus was destroyed by fire three years ago, since when he had been obliged to borrow apparatus from his son. He had made over the property in Sydenham to his wife for her lifetime, after which it reverted to him if he should outlive her.

About five years ago he joined and put considerable sums into a syndicate to take up and work a coal lease at Wairere, Glentunnel. This venture, the Wairere Coal Company, had turned out a failure, although up to the time it went into liquidation he had been led to believe that it was prospering. Mr Ritchie was one of the guarantors to the Bank of New Zealand for an overdraft of £500, and, being the only substantial man, had to pay it all. Mr Ritchie sued the debtor for his share, and then made him a bankrupt on it. The bankrupt was examined, by Mr Fisher at considerable length as to his connection with the Coal Company, and the moneys he had spent on it. According to his evidence, all he had and could raise for the last three years, had been put into the concern. The matter was finally left in the hands of the Assignee to make inquiries, and the meeting adjourned sine die.

Star, Issue 6464, 19 April 1899, Page 3

West Christchurch School, Standard 3a

by Winn, Photographer, Christchurch 

[purchased July 2023]

West Christchurch School, Standard 3a

by Winn, Photographer, Christchurch

 [purchased July 2023]

unknown photographer

[purchased July 2023]

unknown photographer

[purchased July 2023]

Christchurch Electoral Roll 1890
Winn Benjamin, 41 Harper Street, Sydenham, Photographer. no. 7968

Canterbury and West Coast Electoral Rolls 1893
Winn, Benjamin, Scott Road, Sydenham, Christchurch. Photographer no. 12167

Stone's Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough and Westland Directory April 1914
Winn Benj, 20 Angus Street, Christchurch

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