Ann was born in Sep 1802 and christened on 15 Sep 1802 in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex (1). Her birth occurred about six months after the marriage of her parents Isaac Partridge and Elizabeth Bull (2). Her parents were to have another ten children, although some died young.
Ann became a partner of French Circus Owner, Jean Pierre Ginnett (4), and the couple had a son John Frederick Ginnett, born in 1824. The following year on 2 Oct 1825, the couple married at St. Mary's, Lambeth (he was recorded as "John Ginet"). It appears from later census records and extensive travelling that Jean worked in a travelling circus, and later became the circus owner (5) before his death.
John Ginnett was born in 1826 in Lea, Essex, son of a Frenchman, Jean Pierre Ginnett, founder of the circus. John made his circus debut in 1832, billed as the ‘Infant Ginnett’, and rode a ‘speeding horse’ in front of King William IV and Queen Charlotte during a performance at Brighton. According to the Brighton Herald, he was considered to be the ‘finest tight-rope dancer, ceiling walker and rider of his day’.
Ginnett arrived in Brighton in about 1876 with his wife Annie and four sons, one of whom, Louis J Ginnett, became a renowned artist and designer. John built his first permanent circus or hippodrome at Park Crescent Place. It became the Gaiety Theatre in 1890 and was eventually replaced by a block of flats in the 1930s.
His most impressive development was the building of the Hippodrome (later the Grand Theatre) at the top of North Road, near the corner of Queen’s Road. The building opened on 19 October 1891, and was built to commemorate the jubilee of the founding of Ginnett’s Circus in Nottingham in 1841.
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