The Kinch Family
Charles
Kinch
Birth:
about 1814, in Eaton Hastings, Berkshire (now
Oxfordshire),
England
Married:
Emma
Plumbe on 12
August
1844 in Henley, Oxfordshire, England. John Simmons Plumbe, the brides's
father and Charlotte Plumbe, presumably the bride's sister, were
witnesses.
Children:
Occupation:
Chemist and Bookseller. Charles owned a printing
press
in association with a William Hickman. At the time, this had to be
officially
declared and this
declaration was made on 3 March 1838
in Henley on Thames.
Burial:
24 September 1859, in St. Mary's, Henley on Thames,
Oxfordshire,
England
Sources:
- Birth:
Keith Hazell
- Marriage:
England Marriage Index (3Q1844 vol 16 p117);
exact date
from Henley parish registers researched by Mike Strange. Marriage index
refers to Charles Kench, a transcription error.
- Occupation:
Henley parish registers researched by Mike
Strange (bookseller
addition from Keith Hazell)
- Burial:
Keith Hazell
Charles
James Kinch
Birth:
1 November 1845, in Henley On Thames, Oxfordshire,
England
Baptism:
12 December 1845, in St. Mary's, Henley on Thames,
Oxfordshire,
England
Father:
Charles
Kinch
Mother:
Emma
(Plumbe) Kinch
Married:
Matilda Pocock in 1869, in Bath district, Somerset,
England. Matilda (Maud) was born in 1848/9, in Compton Power,
Berkshire,
England
Children:
Occupation:
Pharmaceutical Chemist & Stationer
Census:
1881:
8 West Kensington
Terrace,
London, Middlesex
Sources:
- Birth:
England Birth Index (4Q1845 vol 16 p77);
exact date
from
Keith Hazell
- Baptism:
Keith Hazell
- Marriage:
England Marriage Index (3Q1869 vol 5c p1021);
Maud
details
from 1881 census
- Occupation:
1881 census
Charles
Kinch
known as "Charlie"
Birth:
16 July 1853, in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire,
England
Baptised:
19 August 1853, in St. Mary's, Henley on Thames,
Oxfordshire,
England
Father:
Charles
Kinch
Mother:
Emma
(Plumbe) Kinch
Occupation:
Bookseller and Stationer
Census:
1881:
6 The Elms, Toxteth
Park, Lancashire
(note: appears as Charles Kinck)
Sources:
- Birth:
England Birth Index (3Q1853 vol 3a p472);
exact
date
from Keith Hazell
- Occupation:
1881 census
Charles
Donald Kinch
Birth:
1874, in Henley, Oxfordshire, England
Father:
Charles
Kinch
Mother:
Matilda Pocock
Census:
1881:
8 West Kensington
Terrace,
London, Middlesex
Sources:
- Birth:
England Birth Index (1Q1874 vol 3a p604);
1881
census
Dorothy
Kinch
Birth:
1889, in Darlington district,
County Durham, England
Father:
William
Herbert Kinch
Mother: Dorothy
Annie
(Potts) Kinch
Sources:
- Birth:
England Birth Index (2Q1889 vol 10a p4)
Edward
Kinch
Birth:
19 August 1848, in Henley On Thames, Oxfordshire,
England
Baptism:
20 October 1848, in St. Mary's, Henley on Thames,
Oxfordshire,
England
Father:
Charles
Kinch
Mother:
Emma
(Plumbe) Kinch
Married:
Edith Shirley Huntington in 1889 in Pembroke
district,
Pembrokeshire, Wales. Edith died in February 1890, at Cirencester, aged 33.
Children:
Occupation:
Professor of Chemistry, specialising in
agricultural chemistry.
From 1869 to 1873, Edward was an Assistant to Professor at the Royal
Agricultural College in Cirencester, then from 1873 to 1875 he was an
Assistant at the Royal School of Mines; from 1875 to 1876 he was
Superintendent at the India Museum, from 1876 until 1881 he was a
Professor at the Imperial College of Agriculture in Tokyo, Japan, and
then spent 34 more years, from 1881 until 1915 as Professor
of
Chemistry at the Royal Agricultural College
in Cirencester,
Goucestershire.
In 1879 Prof. Edward Kinch of Cirencester gave a nutritional analysis
of shoyu and discussed the amount of shoyu produced in Japan and its
uses in England and America. In 1882 he published, in German, the first
chemical/nutritional analysis of miso (two types) plus analyses of
tofu, frozen tofu, and defatted soybean meal (Sojabohnenkuchen)
Edward wrote a number of other technical books and pamphlets including:
- 1879: Japanese,
metric & English weights & measures:
Tables of their
relations
to each other and relations of measures of capacity, weights and values
to measures of area: Mensuration & mechanical formulae:
Physical,
chemical & physiological memoranda & constants / by
Edward
Kinch - Tokio: [ Imperial College of Agriculture ], 1879.
- 1880: Contributions
to the
Agricultural Chemistry of Japan.
and with: D. Brauns: On
the
Systematic
Position of the Itachi
(buy
used)
- 1889: Report
on the field
experiments on swedes with different manures,
proposed to
members of the Royal Agricultural College Club, by Professor Edward
Kinch. R.A.C. Club. Cirencester: Printed by George H. Harmer. 1889. 18
pp.
- 1890: Field
experiments.
Barley. Field No. 11. Plots
1-24. Pasture. Field No. 13. By
Edward Kinch. Professor of Chemistry. Cirencester: Printed by George H.
Harmer. 1890. 10 pp.
- 1906: Church's
laboratory guide: A manual of
practical chemistry for colleges
and
schools, specially arranged for agricultural students / revised and
partly rewritten by Edward Kinch - 8th ed. - London: Gurney and
Jackson. - Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1906.
Further details on Edward's education, and membership in various
technical organisations can be found in the Biographical
Database of British chemists, Open University
Death:
6 August 1920, in Haslemere, Surrey, England
Sources:
Emma
Fanny Kinch
Birth:
9 September 1851
Baptism:
12 September 1851, in St. Mary's, Henley on Thames,
Oxfordshire, England
Father:
Charles
Kinch
Mother:
Emma
(Plumbe) Kinch
Notes:
David Morris refers to Emma Fanny as "Fanny", which
might
be the name that she used.
Sources:
- Birth:
David Morris at www.steelbreeze.ws
- Baptism:
Keith Hazell
Ethel
Maud Kinch
Birth:
1878, in Eaton Hastings, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire),
England
Father:
Charles
Kinch
Mother:
Matilda Pocock
Census:
1881:
8 West Kensington
Terrace,
London, Middlesex
Sources:
- Birth:
England Birth Index (4Q1878 vol 2c p281); 1881
census
Harold
Kinch
Birth:
1876/7, in Henley, Oxfordshire, England
Father:
Charles
Kinch
Mother:
Matilda Pocock
Census:
1881:
8 West Kensington
Terrace,
London, Middlesex
Sources:
Hilda
Kinch
Birth:
6 February 1881, in Darlington,
County Durham, England
Father:
William
Herbert Kinch
Mother: Dorothy
Annie
(Potts) Kinch
Census:
1881:
6 Elton Terrace,
Darlington, Durham
Sources:
- Birth:
1881 census; exact date from Keith Hazell
Thomas
Kinch
Birth:
1884, in Darlington district,
County Durham, England
Father:
William
Herbert Kinch
Mother: Dorothy
Annie
(Potts) Kinch
Occupation:
Shipping Clerk
Sources:
- Birth:
England Birth Index (3Q1884 vol 10a p22)
- Occupation: Keith
Hazell
William
Herbert Kinch
Birth:
13 July 1847, in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire,
England
Baptism:
13 August 1847, in St. Mary's, Henley on Thames,
Oxfordshire,
England
Father:
Charles
Kinch
Mother:
Emma
(Plumbe) Kinch
Married:
Dorothy
Annie Potts
on 23 April 1879 in Darlington,
Durham, England
Children:
Occupation:
Civil Engineer
Census:
1881:
6 Elton Terrace,
Darlington, Durham
1901: Seaton Carew, Durham
Sources:
- Birth:
England Birth Index (3Q1847 vol 16 page 69); exact
date from
Keith Hazell
- Baptism:
Keith Hazell
- Marriage:
England Marriage Index (2Q1879 vol 10a p8);
exact
date and place from
Keith Hazell
- Occupation:
1881 census
William
Kinch
Birth:
1886, in Darlington district,
County Durham, England
Father:
William
Herbert Kinch
Mother: Dorothy
Annie
(Potts) Kinch
Sources:
- Birth:
England Birth Index (4Q1886 vol 10a p21)
William
Kinch
Birth:
about 1886, in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
Father:
Edward
Kinch
Mother:
Edith Shirley (Huntington) Kinch
Sources:
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