Career
Fenn may have arrived in South Australia 15 April 1838 aboard the Lord Goderich from London. 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 died following a fall.
On 29 December 1891. He was a solicitor, of the firm Fenn & Hardy.
Emily Sarah Fenn (27 January 1845 – c 11 August 1896) married David Grant Gosse (c 1841 – 1 July 1880), eldest son of William Gosse on 8 April 1869. Frances Ann "Fanny" Fenn (3 April 1848 – after 1935) married Salvator Rosa Wakefield (c 1836 – 21 September 1898) of Glenelg on 20 September 1877. Martha Alice Fenn (11 October 1849 – 3 February 1910) married Gerald Jay on 14 January 1874
Thomas George Fenn (10 January 1852 – 4 January 1902) married Amelia Maud Jackson (c 1854 – 2 October 1925) on 24 April 1888
William Edward Fenn (6 July 1854 – 21 May 1891) died after falling down stairs.
James Bradshaw Fenn (25 September 1856 – 18 January 1890) married Ann Jackson ( – 15 June 1886) on 21 May 1880.
Several sons died young. Frederick Arthur (5 January 1858 – 25 June 1897)
His last residence was in Childers Street, North Adelaide.