Charles Garner (“Garner”) Lynam
18 August 1887 to 1966
LYN00002
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Audlem,
Cheshire
1887
Charles Garner Lynam was the son of Charles Cotterill Lynham (LYN00001)
and Catherine Alice (nee Hall) Lynam (HAL00100),
was born on 18 August 1887 and baptised in Audlem on 11 September 1887 (Audlem P:arish Records).
The birth was registered in Nantwich district in the third quarter of 1887 (GRO Cheshire Vol 8A Page 379).

1891 Census – Kynsal Lodge, Kynsal Heath, Cheshire
James Hall, 53, timber
merchant
Mary Hall, 52
Marianne Hall, 21
Robert Hugh Hall, 20,
timber merchant
Catherine Lynham (25)
Charles Garner Lynham (3)
Catherine Mary Lynham (2)
A cook and housemaid
Oxford
1901
1901 Census – School House, 30 Bardwell Road,
Oxford
Charles Cotterill Lynam 42,
schoolmaster
Catherine A Lynam, 35
Charles G Lynam, 13
Catherine M Lynam, 12
Alfred Lynam, brother
Mabel Lynam, sister
in law
1904
Charles Garner Lynam was student
at Repton School, Derbyshire (Repton School Register).
1908
In his early twenties, he was involved
in business in Middlesex, operating the Hendon Metal Works until the
partnership was dissolved in late 1919.
Charles Lynam joined the Royal
Navy Reserve (navy lists).


Royal Navy Reserve. Acting
Sun-Lieutenant Charles Garner Lynam has been confirmed in the rank of
sub-Lieutenant. Dated May 18, 1908 (Morning Post, 16 November 1910).
1913
Charles Garner, 25, was an
engineer, travelling on the Oriana of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company arriving
in Liverpool on 24 June 1913 from Coruna, Spain (Incoming Passenger Lists).
1914
Charles Garner was a Lieutenant in
the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (military records). The London Gazette 19 January 1915 listed his temporary commission
into the RNVR as a lieutenant.

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1915
Charles G Lynam was on the passenger list of the Demerara, a Royal Mail
shipping vessel, from Liverpool to La Coruna, Spain, listed as engineer.
1917
By this stage of the war, worrying
about family members and friends engaged in conflict had become a way of life.
As well as his daughter Kit (Marshall) and his son Garner, a Lieutenant in the
Royal Navy Reserve, the Skipper had a number of other
close relatives in uniform. (Devitt, Desmond, The Skipper’s War: Dragon School, Oxford and
the Great War, page 245).
1919
Major C G Lynam was listed on the
passenger list of the Massilia bound for Bombay, India.
1920
The London Gazette, 9 January 1920: NOTICE is hereby given, that
the partnership heretofore subsisting between Arthur Cohen and Charles Garner
Lynam, carrying on business as Tin Box Manufacturers, at Hendon, in the county
of Middlesex, under the style or firm of the Hendon Metal Works, has been
dissolved by mutual consent as an from the 1sr day of November, 1919. All debts due to and owing by the said firm will
be received and paid by the said Charles Garner Lynam, who will continue the
said business. Dated this 31st day of December 1919.
1921
C G Lynam was listed on the
passenger list of the Zaria bound for Lagos, Nigeria.
1924
In the first quarter of 1924,
Charles G Lynam married Frances Evelyn Robinson, a policewoman (GRO Volume 3A page 1478).
Transvaal,
South Africa
He became a farmer on the White
River, Transvaal, South Africa. The White River area was a prominent farming settlement
originally established for British ex-soldiers after the Anglo-Boer War. The
region was heavily developed for irrigated agriculture, particularly famous for
citrus fruits, like oranges and lemons, subtropical crops, and later, forestry.
Lynam joined this community of colonial and ex-military farmers using the
river's water supply to cultivate the fertile lowveld.
1958
C G Lynam was on the passenger
list of the Bloemfontein Castle bound for the Cape, South Africa.
1966
Charles Garner Lynam died in St
Pancras, London in the third quarter of 1966 (GRO Volume 5D page 872).