Records of John Penny on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of John Penny in your family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Penny and the Penny Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Penny Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Penny family tree.

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Penny Family Tree Databases

Another way to build your tree quickly is to use the research other people have already done. This can help to confirm or refute your own deductions - however, be wary of taking this data at face value as other researchers may not have been as meticulous as you. Always try to back up deductions with some definitive sources rather than relying too heavily on others.

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Penny Forums

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John Penny (politician)

John Penny (30 October 1870 – 9 January 1938) was a British socialist activist.

Born in Preston, Penny stayed on at school after the age of fourteen as a pupil-teacher. He then qualified as a teacher in his own right, and became the headmaster of a local elementary school. In 1892, he left this job to become editor of the Preston Advertiser. That year, he was a founder of a local branch of the Fabian Society, then in 1893 was instrumental in it becoming part of the new Independent Labour Party (ILP).

Penny spent much of his time on the ILP, and in 1895 became its assistant general secretary, serving under Tom Mann. In 1898, Mann resigned and Penny replaced him as general secretary, moving to London. He did not take such an activist role as Mann had, instead focusing on the administrative side of the post.

Penny stood down as secretary in 1903, but remained active in the ILP. He was a founder of the Planet Friendly Society in 1905, and by 1908 had moved to Sheffield to work as the organiser of its local district. While there, he was also involved in organising the local ILP, with a particular focus on the coal mining areas. In his spare time, he was a supporter of the co-operative movement, and was on the board of the Sheffield and Ecclesall Co-operative Society.

Source: John Penny (politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Penny

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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