Nynne family of Great Chart

[ggbarber]

I did a search on births in the GRO Index on findmypast.co.uk for Ninn in the UK from 1950 to 2006 - not just Kent (I restricted it to exact spelling - no variants), and only got the following:
NINN   Linda D   England   Kent, Tonbridge   1950    VIEW   
NINN   Rosemary   England   Kent, Tonbridge   1952    VIEW   
NINN   Douglas J   England   Kent, Ashford   1953    VIEW   
NINN   Nicholas L   England   Kent, Ashford   1961    VIEW   
NINN   Gillian D   England   Kent, Ashford   1964    VIEW   
NINN   Christopher Geofrey   England   Kent, Ashford   1978    VIEW   
NINN   Vincent James   England   Kent, Tonbridge   1978    VIEW   
NINN   Maria Christina   England   Kent, Ashford   1981    VIEW   
NINN   Abigail Holly   England   Sussex, Hastings & Rother   2004   

Note how they are still concentrated in Kent, and particularly in Ashford which is adjacent to Great Chart.
It does appear that the name is perilously close to extinction!
When you do the search allowing variants, there are other names such as Ninnes, Nind, Nine, Nines, etc and they are all scattered over the UK.
However, I feel that the surname Ninn is unique to the survivors from Ninne House Manor in Great Chart, and which was spelt Nynne prior to 1500, and possibly was just Nin before that - that is my hypothesis anyway.

[ggbarber]

Just to advise that I has established a DNA project for the surname Nin/Nyn/Nynne at
www.familytreeDNA.com
and my DNA results are available there.
I would encourage anyone who is from Kent with the Ninn surname (or variant) to consider having the DNA test and joining the group. The DNA test can be organised at this web site.
It will help towards understanding the origins of this name.
You can go directly to the project at
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Nin/

[watney]

My 7x GGrandmother is Mary Ninn, she married Andrew Snoulton 1681 in Hernhill Kent.

Regards, Brenda

[ggbarber]

Thanks Brenda. I think you are on to this line but I can't prove it.
Have you tried tracing her back further?

[watney]

Hello, I have been trying to solve this for the last 12+ years, but to no avail   

[RobertHauteville]

Another old Nynne occurrence is in MS Add.Ch 36609 @ the Br Lib. Its precis is:

Fine between Wm Nynne, Wm Brant jnr, Jn Eythurst & Jn Holstrete querent receive from Jn Sare & Isabella his wife deforciants of land in Egerton for £20. 22 April 1459

[ggbarber]

Probably this William Nynne:

PRC 32/2/193.
16 October 1468? William Nynne of the parish of Egerton, bequests to lights in the church and for masses, mentions church of Smarden, Pivington, to John Metford [?] and Joan his wife, William Grene [?] and Jane his wife, makes John Nynne and John Holstrete executors.
Last will concerning his lands and tenements in Upstrete in Egerton, Charing, Westwell and Pivington, wife Agnes, Stonbrege in Egerton, son John, son Robert, daughter Alice.
Probate ? March 1468.

[Vance Mead]

William Nynne of Egerton/Eggerton is found several times in Common Pleas between 1440 and 1464.

A bit earlier, Robert Nynne, of Egerton/Eggerton, husbandman is found in 1432 and 1433, and possibly the same person in 1453.

https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/aalt/cp40_search.php