Hello Heather,
Well here is the long reply!
Annette7 has found Henry’s parents were Richard Gwynne and Elizabeth Morton who had married in 25 April 1824 in St John’s (St John in Bedwardine). Parts of Hallow parish, where Henry was baptised, would then have abutted St John’s and there were other Gwynnes in that area in the 1830/40's.
Richard Gwynne (and other spellings) came from Stanford Bishop in Herefordshire. He was baptised there on 30 January 1791, one of the probably eleven children of Samuel Gwynne and his wife Sarah nee Baddeloe who had married there on 17 January 1785. Seven children were baptised at Stanford Bishop and another four children baptised as Gwin at Whitbourne, Herefordshire. Richard has a variety of ages and places of birth on census returns and elsewhere. One census does show Stanford (Stanford Bishop), but its been transcribed as Hanford.
Richard’s mother Sarah Gwinne died aged 65 when she was living at Upper Temple Laugherne, St John’s. She was buried at the parish church on 19 February 1831. By 1841 Richard’s father Samuel c. 84 and a daughter Ann c. 35 (baptised at Whitbourne) were living at St Oswald’s Hospital (Almshouses), in the Tything, Worcester.
On the 1841 census for Sytchampton Richard’s surname has been transcribed as Guinn aged 45 and his wife Elizabeth aged 35 both supposedly born in Worcestershire. The oldest child at home is Helen aged 7. Your Henry was an apprentice carpenter living in Llangarren, which is 7 miles from Ross on Wye in Herefordshire. He would have been coming up to 15 years old. His uncle Samuel was a carpenter, living at Northwick Hall, Claines, Worcester.
In 1861 census Richard and Elizabeth were living in Sytchampton. The Worcester Chronicle has an article on 2 October 1867 about him entitled, “Richard Gwynne, Waterloo Man”. The vicar of Ombersley had made an appeal on his behalf and acknowledged in the Times he had received £25 11s 5d and some clothes. The vicar put the money in a Savings Bank and proposed to pay Richard 5s a week as long as it would last as well as supplying him with coals occasionally during the winter. In the article the vicar said that he had provided him with comfortable underclothing and a pig. Backing up this military link up are the 1755-1817 Attestations for the 1st Foot Guards which show Richard Gwyn, born in Stanford (Stanford Bishop) Herefordshire enlisted at Worcester on 24 July 1812. There maybe more info A*try. Richard died on December 13th December and was buried on 17th December 1868 at Ombersley. The obituary in Berrows Worcester Journal stated that he was 82 (!) and formerly of the First Foot Guards.
HTH
Jack
