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 bride'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, Gloucestershire.
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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