On 28/06/2015 21:33, dialsquare via wrote: > > Charles A Furnivall of Middleton Road Chafferton was buried in Grave M5 > 85 on June 11th 1898 > > He had died 2 days earlier on the 9th > > Good Luck > > Antony > > > > > On 28.06.2015 09:39, Anne Chambers via wrote: >> David Mills wrote: >> >>> >>> What a complicated life Penn seems to have had. >>> >>> >> I see he was jailed for five years for "Cheating" - I wonder if that >> just meant "Fraud" or something more >> interesting. As you say, complicated ! According to Google Books >> (The Lancet) he passed his first exam in >> 1868 - I wonder if the cheating had anything to do with examinations. > C Based on what I have found and the replies here I think that Penn was a bigamist and his wife Agnes probably knew he was. She seems to have left Oldham and returned to the London/Essex area. On her marriage his daughter Agnes Mary states her father Penn was deceased so it is likely that the family knew his circumstances. Any comments?

On Friday, 3 July 2015 20:57:17 UTC+1, David Mills wrote: > On 28/06/2015 21:33, dialsquare via wrote: > > > > Charles A Furnivall of Middleton Road Chafferton was buried in Grave M5 > > 85 on June 11th 1898 > > > > He had died 2 days earlier on the 9th > > > > Good Luck > > > > Antony > > > >I have bought Penn's birth certificate which confirms that he is connected to the Egham ,Surrey Furnivalls. His father was George Frederick Furnivall a publisher. These Furnivalls and later descendants were rich, famous and intellectuals. > > > > On 28.06.2015 09:39, Anne Chambers via wrote: > >> David Mills wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> What a complicated life Penn seems to have had. > >>> > >>> > >> I see he was jailed for five years for "Cheating" - I wonder if that > >> just meant "Fraud" or something more > >> interesting. As you say, complicated ! According to Google Books > >> (The Lancet) he passed his first exam in > >> 1868 - I wonder if the cheating had anything to do with examinations. > > C > > Based on what I have found and the replies here I think that Penn was a > bigamist and his wife Agnes probably knew he was. > She seems to have left Oldham and returned to the London/Essex area. > On her marriage his daughter Agnes Mary states her father Penn was > deceased so it is likely that the family knew his circumstances. > Any comments? On Friday, 3 July 2015 20:57:17 UTC+1, David Mills wrote: > On 28/06/2015 21:33, dialsquare via wrote: > > > > Charles A Furnivall of Middleton Road Chafferton was buried in Grave M5 > > 85 on June 11th 1898 > > > > He had died 2 days earlier on the 9th > > > > Good Luck > > > > Antony > > > > > > > > > > On 28.06.2015 09:39, Anne Chambers via wrote: > >> David Mills wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> What a complicated life Penn seems to have had. > >>> > >>> > >> I see he was jailed for five years for "Cheating" - I wonder if that > >> just meant "Fraud" or something more > >> interesting. As you say, complicated ! According to Google Books > >> (The Lancet) he passed his first exam in > >> 1868 - I wonder if the cheating had anything to do with examinations. > > C > > Based on what I have found and the replies here I think that Penn was a > bigamist and his wife Agnes probably knew he was. > She seems to have left Oldham and returned to the London/Essex area. > On her marriage his daughter Agnes Mary states her father Penn was > deceased so it is likely that the family knew his circumstances. > Any comments?