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.

Notes: Charles was was named an executor of the will of his father-in-law, John Simmons Plumbe, dated 20 April 1853 and proved on 18 April 1854 (The National Archives PROB 11/2190/167).
… I give and devise unto my daughter Emma Kinch the wife of Charles Kinch of Henley upon Thames aforesaid Chemist and Druggist … I appoint the said Charles Plumbe William Plumbe Alfred Ive and Charles Kinch Executors of this my Will
… Proved at London 18th Ap[ri]l 1854 before the Judge by the oaths of Charles Plumbe the Brother William Plumbe the Son, Alfred Ive and Charles Kinch the Executors to whom Adm[inistrati]on was granted having been first sworn by Com[missi]on duly to adm[iniste]r

Burial: 24 September 1859, in St. Mary's, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England

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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

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Charles Kinch

known as "Charlie"

Birth: 16 July 1853, in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England

Baptism: 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)

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Charles Donald Kinch

Birth: 1874, in Henley, Oxfordshire, England

Father: Charles Kinch

Mother: Matilda Pocock

Census:
1881: 8 West Kensington Terrace, London, Middlesex

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Dorothy Kinch

Birth: 1889, in Darlington district, County Durham, England

Father: William Herbert Kinch

Mother: Dorothy Annie (Potts) Kinch

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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:
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
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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.

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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

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Harold Kinch

Birth: 1876/7, in Henley, Oxfordshire, England

Father: Charles Kinch

Mother: Matilda Pocock

Census:
1881: 8 West Kensington Terrace, London, Middlesex

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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

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Thomas Kinch

Birth: 1884, in Darlington district, County Durham, England

Father: William Herbert Kinch

Mother: Dorothy Annie (Potts) Kinch

Occupation: Shipping Clerk

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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

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William Kinch

Birth: 1886, in Darlington district, County Durham, England

Father: William Herbert Kinch

Mother: Dorothy Annie (Potts) Kinch

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William Kinch

Birth: about 1886, in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England

Father: Edward Kinch

Mother: Edith Shirley (Huntington) Kinch

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