George Griffin (1796-1819), son of Daniel and Sarah, unmarried?, Camberwell, Surrey.
Coopers
William Griffin (1755-1839), son of William and Mary, wife Elizabeth Edge, Cooper & Citizen of the City of London, Captain Cook’s third voyage, and St Sepulchre, City of London. Possibly apprenticed to John Flexman of Tring, 1769.
Dissenting ministers, preachers etc
Harriet Ann Griffin (1816-1907), daughter of Daniel and Sarah, second husband Opie Rodway was a Baptist preacher based in Stroud, Gloucstershire (also a linen draper)
Harriet’s father-in-law, Rev Joseph Rodway of Bradford, Wiltshire, was a Baptist minister.
John Henry Nunn (1862-1936), grandson of Elizabeth Griffin and David Nunn, was the choir master of Hackney Wick’s Wesleyan choir. His future wife sang in the choir, and that was how they met.
Albert Henry Nunn (1912-2000), great-grandson of Elizabeth Griffin and David Nunn, was a Methodist lay preacher in the 1930s-1960s on the Southend circuit, Essex, and in the 1990s was a lay preacher at Wivenhoe Congregational (formerly Independent) church. Ebenezer Hyde lived in the same house in Hoxton as Mary (née Cleaver), widow of Thomas Griffin (1788-1860). He was born in Wivenhoe, where his father was – by very strange coincidence – the minister of the Independent Church where Thomas and Mary’s great-great-nephew would preach. One of the witnesses to Ebenezer’s marriage was William Gardner, who may be a relative of Mary’s on her mother’s side.
Drapers and associated clothing and haberdashery
Elizabeth Griffin (1782-?), daughter of William and Elizabeth, husband James Watson, a tailoress in widowhood, Christ Church, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets
William Griffin (1789-1863), son of Daniel and Sarah, wife Charlotte Lainson linen draper, Colchester, Essex
Sarah Griffin (1791-1875), daughter of Daniel and Sarah, husband John Barrell linen draper, Colchester, Essex (in partnership with William Griffin 1789-1863 until about 1829), Gloucester, and Birkenhead, Cheshire
Sarah Griffin (1792-1865), daughter of William and Elizabeth, husband George Chorley, floor cloth manufacturer, Lambeth, Surrey
Daniel Griffin (1793-1844), son of Daniel and Sarah, wife Rebecca Neville, reel cotton manufacturer, West Ham
John Griffin (1798-1849), son of Daniel and Sarah, wife Ann Phillis Carr, linen draper, Camberwell
Thomas Griffin (1803-1884), son of John and Charlotte, wife Mary Knowles, linen draper 17 Bolingbroke Row and Bradbroke Row (South London Mourning Warehouse), Walworth
Charles Griffin (1805-1880), son of Daniel and Sarah, wife Eliza Boucher, wholesale milliner, St John Street Road, Clerkenwell
Harriet Ann Griffin (1816-1907), daughter of Daniel and Sarah, husband Daniel Sutton Olney canvas manufacturer, Tring, Herts, and Opie Rodway, linen draper, Stroud, Gloucestershire (Opie was also a Dissenting Minister, Baptist)
Samuel Nunn (1828-1915), Mary Ann Nunn (1832-1920), Harriet Nunn (1835-?), children of Elizabeth Griffin and David Nunn, milliners, Shoreditch in 1851. In 1861: Samuel is a “milliner commercial travel”. In 1871: Samuel is a “traveller in drapery”
Farmers and yeomen
William Griffin (1729-1799), son of unknown, wife Mary (Markham, widow), yeoman at his marriage, farmer at his death, Drayton Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire
John Griffin (1753-1820), son of William and Mary, wife Charlotte Foster, farmer, Chalkshire Farm, Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire
Daniel Griffin (1757-1835), son of William and Mary, wife Sarah Fowler, yeoman, Aston Clinton, Drayton Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire, Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire
Elizabeth Griffin (1759-1839), daughter of William and Mary, husband Robert Burnell, Quainton, Buckinghamshire
Henry Griffin (1765-1825), son of William and Mary, married but wife’s name unknown, yeoman, Aston Clinton
John Griffin (1786-1843), son of John and Charlotte, wives Frances and Charlotte Kingsley, farmer, Folly Farm, Long Marston, Tring, Hertfordshire
Thomas Griffin (1794-1881), son of William and Elizabeth (born St Sepulchre), wife Martha Bigg, farmer at Aspenden, Herts, and Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks
Daniel Griffin (1806-?), son of John and Charlotte, wife unknown, farmer, Red House, Long Marston, Tring, Buckinghamshire
Grocers
Thomas Griffin (1788-1860), son of Daniel and Sarah, first wife unknown, second wife Mary Cleaver, grocer (apprenticed 1802 to Thomas Deverell, Aylesbury – note that Daniel Sutton Olney’s mother was née Deverall) and oilman, No. 12 Upper Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square (1815-1834), No. 47 Red Lion Street, Christ Church, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets (1840-1852)
Licensed victuallers, pub landlords etc
Ann Griffin (1783-1819), daughter of William and Elizabeth (a cooper), husband Joseph Firth, licensed victualler, owned The Royal Oak on Henry Street, Lambeth and The George on Middle Row, Holborn
Alexander Griffin (1788-1865), son of William and Elizabeth (a cooper), unmarried, apprenticed as a vintner 1803. By 1841 a carrier’s clerk.
Oilman & tallow chandler
Elizabeth Griffin (1801-1847), daughter of Daniel and Sarah, husband David Nunn, St Botolph’s Aldgate, City of London, Pimlico and Shoreditch (tobacconist in 1819, change of occupation from 1820)
Tobacconist
Charlotte Griffin (1790-1884), daughter of William and Elizabeth, husband William Collins, tobacconist, St John’s Street Road, Holborn
Elizabeth Griffin (1801-1847), daughter of Daniel and Sarah, husband David Nunn, tobacconist in 1819 at 22 Windmill Street, St Pancras (from 1820 oilman and tallow chandler)
Wheelwrights
George Griffin (abt 1761-1840), son of William and Mary, wives Ann Meacher and Lydia Mead (widow, Butcher), wheelwright (apprenticed 1778 to William Goodson, Tring), Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire
