Penny Family

Penny Family – This family was prominent among West Country dissenting families (largely Baptist), with branches in Bristol, Salisbury, Portsmouth, and London during the latter part of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries. William Penny operated the Parade Tavern and Brewery in Milford Street, Salisbury. Like the Horseys of Portsmouth, the Penny family enjoyed a close friendship with the Saffery family. The Pennys were also connected with the Attwaters through the marriage of Philemon Attwater of Nunton to Eliza Penny of Salisbury. Another relation, John Penny, was ‘an eminently pious and devoted man and a sound divine’ who served as minister to the Baptist congregation in White’s Alley, Portsmouth, 1803-16. See P. Ridoutt, The Early Baptist History of Portsmouth (Landport: G. Chamberlain, 1888), 62.