Charles Fenn
Charles Fenn was a solicitor and member of the first Legislative Council in the Colony of South Australia.
Fenn arrived in South Australia 15 April 1838 aboard the Lord Goderich from London.
He worked as solicitor in Adelaide from around 1849, and was in partnership with Henry Johnson as "Johnson and Fenn" from 1849 to 1850. Shortly after the partnership was dissolved, Johnson was implicated in fraudulent conversion of trust funds.
He was the member for East Torrens in the Legislative Council following the resignation of George Waterhouse and served from June 1854 to August 1855. He was an opponent of R. R. Torrens's Real Property Act.
He died in Adelaide following a fall.
Family
He married Sarah Isabella Bradshaw, daughter of Robert Fletcher Bradshaw, on 3 March 1842- Charles Fletcher Fenn married Eva Fenn, née Simpson,, previously married to his brother James, see below. on 29 December 1891. He was a solicitor, of the firm Fenn & Hardy.
- Emily Sarah Fenn married David Grant Gosse, eldest son of William Gosse on 8 April 1869.
- Frances Ann "Fanny" Fenn married Salvator Rosa Wakefield of Glenelg on 20 September 1877. S. R. Wakefield was a son of Felix Wakefield and nephew of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. He previously married Susannah Grace Cox, and was an early employee of Elder, Smith and Co.
- Martha Alice Fenn married Gerald Jay on 14 January 1874
- Thomas George Fenn married Amelia Maud Jackson on 24 April 1888
- William Edward Fenn died after falling down stairs.
- James Bradshaw Fenn married Ann Jackson on 21 May 1880; several sons died young. He married again, to Eva Simpson on 21 April 1887. Widowed, she married again, to his brother Charles Fletcher Fenn, see above.
- Frederick Arthur