In the previous post we distinguished between two men called Edward Turton and their respective spouses (The Turton Wives). From FreeBMD we can know that since civil registration began in England and Wales there have been over 70 marriage registrations with the name Edward Turton.
By contrast FreeBMD shows only seven marriage registrations for the name Jabez Penny. Sounds like an easier starting point. However, there are three birth registrations for Jabez Penny within a two year period of time (with just one earlier birth and another entry a generation later). Selecting the relevant details for the person of interest was achieved by piecing together information about the life of each of five people with the same name.
Jabez John Penny, son of Robert and Ann, was born in Kent in 1841. He became a school master like his father before him. Jabez married Mary Hanson Jones, daughter of a school master and a teacher herself, in 1866 in Portsea, Hampshire. His widow died in 1917, age 77. It is possible that his death was the one registered in the same district 18 years earlier as John Penny.
In Bristol, James Penny married Celia Legg in 1850, they had a son Jabez Penny in 1851 who died aged 1 in 1852. Then they gave the same name to another son who was born in 1853 and baptised on Christmas Day. Their second Jabez married firstly in 1875 to Margaret Wood who unfortunately died within a year. Then he married Caroline Baker in 1881, had various roles related to making and selling paper, died in Barnstaple, Devon in 1919, age 66, and is buried in the town cemetery with his wife Caroline's name on the grave monument.
Between those two births, a Jabez Penny was born in 1852 in Wiltshire to Henry (Harry) Penny and Harriett (Harriet) formerly Burton, who had married in 1838. This Jabez, a labourer, was married first in 1874 to Dinah Ann Kiddle, age 18, but sadly she died before their 10th wedding anniversary. He went on to marry Rebecca White, age 26, in 1886, who lived until 1913, a marriage of 27 years, during which time he progressed to being a road foreman working for the district council. Then in 1914, in his early 60s, Jabez married the much younger Kate Elizabeth/Elizabeth Kate Elcock who was age 25 and their marriage continued for 24 years until his death age 85 in 1938.
In Essex, Thomas David Penny, a millwright who had been born in Brighton, Sussex, and his wife Agnes had their Jabez Penny in 1888. He married Mabel Simpson in 1920 and died in 1962 age 74.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any corrections or further insights. However, beware if you are checking against compiled information available on the internet because several sources have muddled up these Penny people.