newsletter spring.2006 - The Binns Family

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)HHGEDFN I’m happy to say that my plea for feedback on the News Letter did not fall on deaf ears. I’ve received useful and encouraging comments from, among others, Lilian Vear of York, Richard Binns of Leighton Buzzard, John A Binns of Holmfirth, Dave Binns of South Wales, and Peter Binns of Bromley. The Wakefield Binnses have been very active in sharing information of late and Mike Binns has continued to enter Guiseley information into the data base on the web site. Our knowledge of Binns families from the North West Midlands has been greatly increased thanks to the efforts of Dave Binns. In Issue 10 I asked for any information on Charles Binns. One of his descendants, Peter Binns of Bromley, very kindly wrote; “Re. Charles Binns. Charles Luther Binns was born 31 st Dec 1865 and died 6 th Feb 1941. He was the son of John Binns (who married Isabella Riley on 30 Apr 1859). Charles married Elizabeth Ann Dolling in 1899 and they had five children. I am the eldest son of his youngest son, John. Sadly, I know little of my grandfather who died when I was three years old. I do have a copy of his book “Principles of Educational Woodwork” and a letter from R. E. Marsden, his co-author, dated 2 Apr 1945, when he was 69, to my father’s brother Wilfred saying that a new edition of the book was published that year. I have my grandfather’s tool box and several of his named tools.” Ken Binns from Abindon who has been a prolific collector of Binns information for many years has contributed the following; “Cutting from the Oxford Times of 21 Oct 2005 that mentions a Mrs. Claire Binns, age 31, of Chipping Norton who has led a patient campaign to reinstate a plastic surgeon who had been struck off after the GMC had found HE HAD AN AFFAIR WITH A PATIENT.” Ken also draws our attention to the fact that the Vicar of Great St Mary’s , The University Church , Cambridge, is one Dr. John Binns. 'HVSHUDWHO\VHHNLQJ« Beverly Binns has been in touch again. She is desperately seeking a lead on her Christopher and Michael Binns who were in Jamaica in the 1820’s. 3DJH %,116&211(&7,216
)HHGEDFN««««««IURP(OOHQD:RRGZDUG Finally Alan Binns was delighted to receive this attachment to an email from Ellena Woodward who has been a correspondent for many years. It makes the effort of publishing and distributing the News Letter seem worthwhile when we get this sort of feedback. Please let us know if you have found anything of particular interest in this current edition. Thank you for sending me a copy of News Letter Number 9; I had put aside the reading of it for a time when I could give it my total attention, so yesterday was the first time I could actually do that. I enjoyed reading the contents and when I came to page 10, “Snippets”, I was astonished to read No.7 – US Census 1900 Kentucky, with Families 1 & 2, - certainly Family No.1 was startlingly familiar! I thought I recognised the names. I couldn’t wait to check it with my own family chart, only to find that YES - it was a match! Walter Binns – the Head of Family on the census, was the youngest brother of my great-grandmother Jane Binns, born 1837 (who married David Hutchinson). Walter and his wife emigrated to Indiana and Kentucky, US. I had the names of all his children, but not their dates of birth, so was delighted to write them in. His eldest brother, William Binns emigrated to Victoria, Australia. My father, Ronald Hutchinson, was sent out to the US around 1912/1913 to further his education, studying at Kentucky University. He stayed with his greatuncle Walter for some time, helping on their chicken farm, where I heard that he rather disturbed them by sleepwalking! I have a much-prized photograph of him with his uncle during that stay, which I only obtained a couple of years ago when I went to stay with a Hutchinson cousin. In the bedroom, there was an old photo and when I looked, I thought the face of the younger man looked familiar. On asking about it, I was told my cousin had looked through some old family photos, thought I would be interested, and had it enlarged and framed for me. To say I was delighted would be an understatement. It is the only photograph I have of my father as a young man. Family 2 on the Census – who lived next door to Walter Binns and family, might have been Walter Binns’s nephew. On my Chart I have an older brother – Thomas Binns, who married a Jane Cooper and they had 5 children, the second of whom was William Binns. Unfortunately I have no dates of birth for any of them. But this William could have moved out to join his uncle. Jane Binns was the daughter of Matthias Binns who, I think, was a Law Stationer. I do know that Jane Binns married David Hutchinson and they had 7 children - 4 boys and 3 girls (all the 3 girls becoming Headmistresses) – my grandfather, David Hutchinson, the eldest of the seven, was an Assistant Inspector General in Bankruptcy (which was rather ironic, because my father – his eldest son – was, a few years after the death of his father, forced into bankruptcy after building some houses and being unable to sell them because of the Depression). Jane was a pastry cook and ran a High Class Bakery in Chelsea. The family later moved to East Dulwich to a large 5- storey terraced house in a square surrounding tennis-courts which, during the 1939-1945 second World War was converted into a Barrage Balloon Station, with the men who ran it being lodged in the house next door. The house continued to be occupied by the family and Jane died there. Her daughters – the three who became Headmistresses – continued to live there until 1939 when they moved to a thatched cottage in the countryside to avoid the bombing. They had left the house just as it was, still furnished but with dustsheets over everything. They allowed my father (who by then was bankrupt) to occupy the empty top floor and attics, so I lived in this house with my mother and father. Later, after the bombing had destroyed so many homes, the local Council “requisitioned” the house and re-housed two families in the unoccupied parts of the house, much to my mother’s chagrin because we then had to share our bathroom with the family directly below us. They were from the “Gorbals” and brought bed-bugs with them who shortly made the trip upstairs to her bed! Fortunately for me, I was spared this indignity as I had moved up to the attic and made my bedroom there, and the migration was stopped before they reached my territory. Our inconvenience was however, compensated for in a small way, when the Queen visited the airmen who were billeted in the house next door to ours. Some time after this, we received a visit from an American soldier, stationed in England, who must have been from the family in Kentucky, but he did not leave any contact details and never returned. He had called during the day and seen only my mother, who had little knowledge of my father’s family, and perhaps he was put off by the multioccupation of the house and our unconventional circumstances. But who knows what happened – he might have been posted out of the area and unable to return for a number of reasons. I always regretted the fact that we were unable to take advantage of this splendid opportunity to obtain more knowledge of our extended family. But, of course, these were extremely difficult times and the highest priority for all was basically survival!” 3DJH %,116&211(&7,216
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