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THE SWALLOWS "Within
this xx year Westwarde
he found new landes That
we never harde tell of before this By
wrytynge nor other meanys Yet
many nowe have ben there And
that contrey is so large of rome Muche
lerger than all Christendome." ("Interlude
of the Nature of the Four Elements" -
John Rastell, 1517). Since the Elizabethan age, there was emigration and immigration to and from the colonies. Some colonial families moved back to the mother country sometimes via strange routes and foreign countries like the Winters of Baltimore who claim descent from the Winters of Wych, a member of whom apparently emigrated to Hanover so a member of the English family must have settled there after George I ascended the throne in 1704 or earlier when Elizabeth Stuart married the Prince Palatinate. "Mr Samuel Winter was descended on both sides from the stalwart German stock which has given to the United States some of her best citizens. The family of Winter, Wintour, Wynter or Wintor, as the name was variously spelled, descended from Wintor, the castellan of Carnarvon, Wales, their name being originally Gwyntour and their crest a falcon mounted on a white tower. The family settled at Wych in the reign of Edward the First, eventually spreading to all parts of Great Britain and to Germany. Amongst the bearers of this name have been many statesmen, warriors, admirals, divines, bankers and men of culture. The family has numerous coats of arms. The coats of arms of the German branch is "argent, in fesse, a bar bearing 5 helmets proper, in chief checky or and azure, in base the same, wreath or and azure, crest 3 ostrich plumes, or and azure. Motto "Omnia Vincit Veritas." (The Worcester branch has for a crest three ostrich plumes). Samuel Winter's ancestors were natives of Hanover, Germany". ["Baltimore, its History and its People" - various contributors, Vol II - Biography, Lewis Histr. Publ. Co., New York, 1912]. The Motto seems to be that of the cadet branch of Surrey. Fig.
147
- Winter of Hanover & Baltimore George
Winter whose ancestors came from Hanover > John Winter, a farmer,
captain of militia company, defended Baltimore in 1812 = Catherine Meckley
> 9 children one of whom was Samuel (b. 10.10.1800 in Hopewell, York
County, Pennsylvania, d. 5.5.1892 at Baltimore), apprentice carpenter (5
years), member of the Washington Blues, militia company which received
General Lafayette at York, worked as carpenter for 2 years from 1825 at
Rochester, New York, came to Baltimore in1827 and worked for the firm of
Ericsson & Page, started work on his own in 1835-1862 as a builder,
represented 17 Ward of Baltimore in the First Branch of the City Council
in 1848, travelled to Europe 1867 = (1) Sarah, d. of Captain John Price
> William, Amelia, Jerome and Samuel, deceased.
Samuel Winter senior =(2) Sarah d, of William Armstrong of
Wheeling, West Virginia by his wife Margaret Donaldson > John Armstrong
Winter, Sara Armstrong Winter = Graham Eccleston, formerly of Baltimore
and now of Los Angeles, California. Armstrong: Arms "gules, 3 dexters arms. vambraced in armour, argent, hands, proper . Crest "dexter arm vambraced in armour, hand proper". John
Armstrong, of Carnteel, Co. Tyrone = Mary Hanna > William of Wheeling,
West Virginia = Margaret, d. of Thomas Donaldson of Aughnaclay, Co.
Tyronne (by his wife Mary Anne Nash., d. of Dr. Nash of Wilmington,
Delaware, physician and surgeon) > Sarah Armstrong = Samuel Winter. The promotors of American settlements found some of their colonists among their relations, friends and neighbours whose descendants intermarried. Lady Baltimore was the earl of Warwick's second cousin, his mother's first cousins were Thomas West, Lord de la Warr, Governor of Virginia (1617-19), his brother John West who settled and left descendants there and his sister Elizabeth Pelham whose sons went to New England. Her second cousin was the earl of Lincoln, two of whose daughters Susan and Arbella went to New England with their husbands John Humphreys (d. 1661), Deputy Governor of Massachusetts and Isaac Johnson, a third daughter married Sir Ferdinando Gorge's son. Sir Ferdinando Gorge's great uncle Sir William Gorges, married Winifred Budockside, Sir Walter Raleigh's first cousin.. Sir Walter Raleigh and the Gilberts were half-brothers, Raleigh and the Winters of Huddington were related through the Throckmortons, the Gorges to the Winters of Dyrham, the Drakes and Winters of Dyrham and Clapton-in-Gordano were related through the Sydenhams and the Hawkins were kinsmen of the Trelawneys. Judge Popham, Recorder of Bristol, who promoted colonisation, was related to the Winters of Dyrham and Clapton-in-Gordano, the Winters of Lydney and Sir Thomas Smythe, a fervent coloniser, were related through Sir Andrew Judde, Mayor of London, Ferdinando Gorges to the Smythes and to Drake through the Champernownes. Fig
148
- Hawkins, Gilbert, Raleigh, Gonson, Gorges, Sydenham, Winter. John
Hawkins of Tavistock = Joan d. of William Amydas of Launceston >
William Hawkins (b.c.1490-1500) = Joan Trelawney (d. 1.55.3-4) >: a.
a. William Hawkins (b.c.1519 d, 1589) > William Hawkins
(d.1613). b.
b. Sir John Hawkins (.b.1532 d. 1595) = (1) Katherine
Gonson = (2) Margaret c.
Vaughan > 1
1.
Sir Richard Hawkins (b. 1560) = Judith Heale (d. 1622). 2
2.
d. = Horswell > Paul Horswell (b.c.1555). Mary
Winter
= Daniel Hawkins 26.5.1684 at St. James. Dukes Place, Aldgate. Ralegh,
sheriff of Devon Henry II, granted Nettlecombe estate, Somerset, Sir
William Ralegh, Judge of the King's Bench, William Ralegh, Bishop of
Winchester in 13c, owned Withycombe Ralegh, Colaton Ralegh, Challacombe
Ralegh, Combe Ralegh in West Country. Sir Walter Ralegh's great grandfather = d. of Sir Richard
Edgcumbe > grandfather = d. of Sir Thomas Grenville, sold Small Ridge
estate to John Gilbert > Walter Ralegh of Fardel, Cornwood = (1) d. of John
Drake of Exmouth >: George > illegitimate issue.
Walter Ralegh of Fardel =
(2) d. of Darrell, a London merchant > daughter = Hugh Snedall.
Walter Ralegh of Fardel = (3) Elizabeth, d. of Sir Philip
Champernowne of Modbury near Plymouth, widow
of Otho Gilbert of Compton Castle near Torquay >: (a)
(a)
Sir Humphrey Gilbert. (b)
(b)
Sir John Gilbert. (c)
(c)
Adrian Gilbert. (d)
(d)
Sir Carew Ralegh = widow of Sir John Thynne. (e)
(e)
Sir Walter Ralegh = Elizabeth, d.
of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. Edward
I = Eleanor of Castile > Elizabeth Plantagenet = Humphrey de Bohun,
earl of Hereford & Essex > Eleanor de Bohun = James Butler, Earl of
Ormond > Eleanor Butler = Gilbert Talbot, 3rd lord Talbot
> Richard Talbot, 4th Lord Talbot = Ankarette le Strange
> MaryTalbot = Sir Thomas Greene (b. 1369 d. 14.12.1417) of Greene’s
Norton, Northants, sheriff of Northants (son of Thomas Greene of Boughton
by d. of John Mablethorpe, knt of Lincoln) > Thonas Greene (b.
10.2.1399/1400 d. 18.1.1461/2, Knt of Greene’s Norton, Sheriff of
Northants = Philippe de Ferrers (d. of Robert Ferrers, Knt of Chartley,
Staffs. desc. Edward I, & Margaret, d. of Edward Despencer Knt., 4th
Lord Despencer, dec. Edward I > Elizabeth Greene = 1440 William
Raleigh (b.c. 1440, d.15.10.1460), of Farnborough, Warks (son of John
Raleigh of Thornborrow,Warks & Idonea, d. & heiress of Thomas
Cotesford, Knt.) > Edward
Raleigh (b.c.1442, of age in 1463, Will 20.6.1509 proved 1513), Knt of
Farnborough, Warks & Ilfracombe, Devon, Sheriff of Warks &
Leics = 1467 Margarfet Verney (d. of Ralph Verney, Knt., Lord Mayor of
London & wife Emme) > 2 sons & 5 daughters. Son Edward Raleigh (b.c. 1470, d.v.p. Will 25.8.1508) of
Farnborough = 1496-1505 Anne Chamberlain, (d. of Richard Chamberlain of
Sherburne, Oxford, desc. Charlemagne & Sibyl, d. of Richard Fowler of
Sherburne, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Edward IV > 5 sons & 3
daughters incl. (a)
Mary Raleigh = Nicholas Woodhull >Chetwode family (b)
Bridget Raleigh = John Cope, Knt. of Canon Ashby, Northants, Sheriff of
Northants
MP (2nd son of William Cope of Banbury, Oxford, Cofferer
to Henry VIII & Jane, d. of
John Spencer of Hodnell, Warks. John
Drake of Crowndale, near Tavistock, Devon temp Henry VII = Margery >
Edmund Drake > 12 sons. Francis
= 4.7.1569 (1) Mary Newman = (2) Elizabeth,
d. of Sir George Sydenham. John Sydenham (d.1460) of Brympton d'Eversay, Somerset = Joan, co-heiress of John Stourton of Preston, Somerset > Alexander Sydenham = Agnes, widow of Sir William Popham >: 1.
John Sydenham (b.1468 d.1542) of Combe Sydenham = (1) Elizabeth, d. of Sir
Humphrey Audley = (2) Joan, d. of Sir John Arundell of Lanherne
> Sir John
Sydenham (d.1557), knighted 1549 = Ursula Bridges, sister of John
Bridges, Lord
Chandos of Suddeley > Sir George Sydenham, knighted in 1548 =
Elizabeth, d. of
Christopher Hales > Elizabeth Sydenham = 1585 (1) Sir
Francis Drake = (2) Sir
William Courtney of Powderham, Devon. 2.
Sylvester Sydenham (d..1525) of North Petherton, Somerset = Joan, heiress
of Sir
Ralph Goch > Eleanor Sydenham = Edmund
Winter of Trebarwith, Cornwall (d.
1550) > Jane Winter = Sir George Rogers of Cannington > Mary Rogers = George
Winter of Dyrham > William
Winter of Clapton-in-Gordano = Mary Arthur > Grace
Winter = Edward Gorges of Wraxall, Somerset whose heir male was Ferdinando
Gorges. Sir George Throckmorton = Catherine Vaux of Harrowden >: A.
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton = Anne, d. Sir Nicholas Carew of Beddington,
Surrey >
Elizabeth
Throckmorton = Walter Raleigh. B.
Robert Throckmorton = Elizabeth Hussey of Sleaford, Lincs >:
(a) Muriel Throckmorton = Sir Thomas Tresham > Francis Tresham =
Anne Leigh of
Stoneleigh. (b) Anne Throckmorton = Sir William Catesby > Robert Catesby. C.
Catherine Throckmorton = Robert
Winter of Huddington > George
Winter = (1)
Jane Ingleby = (2) Elizabeth Bourne > Robert,
Thomas & John Winter, the
Gunpowder Plotters. The first attempts to plant colonies in America were led by Gilbert on whose death (when his ship sank on the journey home) his half-brother Raleigh took over and in 1584 sent a ship to the southern Virginian coast. In 1585 the first Roanoke colony was established on an island by Raleigh's cousin Richard Grenville. There were 5 voyages: in 1584 led by Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, in 1585 by Richard Grenville and Ralph Lane, in 1586 under Raleigh, in 1587 and in 1590 under John White. All trace of the colony was lost by 1591 and Virginia was not permanently colonised until 1607. Philip Amadas described one island: "This island had many goodly woods full of deer, coneys, hares and fowl, even in the midst of summer, in incredible abundance. The woods are not such as you find in Bohemia, Moscovia or Hercynia, barren and fruitless but the highest and reddest cedars of the world, far bettering the cedars of the Azores, of the Indies or Libanus; pines cypresses, sassafras, the lentisk or the tree that beareth the mastic; the tree that beareth the rind of black cinnamon of which Master Winter brought from the Straits of Magellan; and many other of excellent smell and quality". (Hakluyt's "Voyages"). The Bristol Venturers received a patent in 1610 to colonise Newfoundland, backed by Chief Justice Popham, Recorder of Bristol, Francis Bacon and John Langton. In 1617-18 the "Bristol Hope" was purchased by the Society from the original pioneers in Newfoundland. In 1606 Ferdinando Gorges, relative of the Smythes of Ashton Court, petitioned for settlement in Virginia and in 1620 for exclusive rights to fish for Bristol merchants from the St. Lawrence river to Philadelphia (Puritans excluded). Bristolians emigrated to Massachusetts and Rhode Island both of which have counties called Bristol and the latter has a town of the same name. Maine was granted in 1639 to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, patron of Bristol and Plymouth fishing interests. Many Maine settlers were fishermen from Devon; Newfoundland, where they settled, was a fishing ground for West Country fishermen. The seamen of Devon had fished the coasts of Massachusetts, Maine Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, camping there in the summer returning home in the winter whilst a few remained in huts to look after the nets. Most of the identified settlers of Maine and New Hampshire came from Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, and Gloucestershire. Gorges lived in Plymouth and had a house near Bristol, both headquarters of fisheries, receiving grants from 1622 to the final grant of the Province of Maine in 1639 and the grant of New Hampshire to his partner Captain John Mason. His first wife's great nephew Captain Thomas Bradbury (d. 1695) went to New England in 1634, his second wife's nephew Captain Francis Champernowne (d. 1687) settled at York, Maine in 1665, his 3 second cousins once removed, daughters of John Deighton of Gloucester, left descendants in New England, Katherine the eldest was wife of Thomas Dudley (d. 1653), Governor of Massachusetts. Alice, daughter of Sir Andrew Judde (d. 1558), Lord Mayor of London married Customer Smythe whose son Sir Thomas Smythe (1625) was a keen promoter of colonisation and first governor of the Somers Island or Bermuda Company. Alice's sister Katherine Judde, widow of Matthews married Thomas Langton, father of Mary, Sir William Winter's wife. The
two main groups involved in the colonisation of Virginia were the London
merchants of the East India, Levant, and Moscovy Companies, led by
Customer Smythe's son Sir Thomas who made the biggest contribution and the
West Country group interested in the fur trade and fisheries led by Sir
Ferdinando Gorges, Governor of Plymouth.
Sir Thomas Smythe funded the Virginia colony for 30 years. Sir Thomas Smythe was first Governor of the East India Company (1600), Treasurer of the Virginia Company (1620), Governor of Somers Island Company (1615). His son John Smythe married Isabel, daughter of Robert Rich, earl of Warwick (d. 1619). Sir Thomas Smythe funded explorers, he was involved in sending Hudson (who was cast adrift after a mutiny and died) and William Baffin (1615) to the Arctic. Sir Thomas proposed to the East India Company that they send a special ambassador to the Mogul emperor to obtain a permanent footing for trade with India. In 1589 Sir Walter Raleigh handed over control of the Roanoke colony to a company of London merchants which included Sir Thomas Smythe. Due to Gorges efforts, colonists were sent out in 1619 to found New Plymouth, New England and the province of Maine. ["Gorges of Plymouth Fort" R. A. Preston, "Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine" - J. F. Baxter quoted in "Expansion of Elizabethan England" - A. L. Rowse]. The permanent settlement of Virginia began with the Virginia Company's Expedition which founded Jamestown in 1607 promoted by Sir Thomas Smythe.. Large areas called particular plantations were granted to syndicates in England to undertake their settlement. The settlement of Maryland, began in 1632 when a charter was granted to Sir George Calvert (First Lord Baltimore). After some delays, the ship “Ark” and the pinnace “Dove” sailed from London in October 1633. The “Dove” ran into problems and had to return but with a surprising twist of fate, they met in Barbados and continued on in 1634 with 20 Gentlemen settlers together with their slaves, indentured servants, tradesmen, farmers and wives for a total estimated at about 320 souls. Included as Commander of the “Dove” was a Robert Wintour. The Gentlemen, were Roman Catholic gentry, and included "Edward Wintour (son of Lady Anne Wintour) and Frederick Wintour (son of Lady Anne Wintour)". The Trelawney Plantation at Richmond's Islands, Maine was a typical early New England coastal fishing and trading post. Apart from fishing and trading, farming, and lumbering were carried on by the settlers. 12 acres were planted with corn, gram and peas in 1639 and pigs, goats and cattle were raised. The
plantation was granted to Robert Trelawney and Moses Goodyear, merchants
of Plymouth and on Goodyear's death, Trelawney had sole possession in 1637
but he never came to America. Gorges'
agent Richard Vines left its management to John Winter in
21.7.1632-31.7.1632 who drove out George Cleeve, Deputy President of
Lygonia and his partner Richard Tucker.
Winter's brother Arthur also came out to Maine and the settlement
became known as Winter's Harbour. After
Trelawney's death in 1644 and Winter's in 1645, Robert Jordan, Winter's
son-in-law, was given the plantation in 1648 by the Lygonia General
Assembly as security for a claim Winter's estate had upon the proprietor.
Trelawney's heirs never recovered their property. ["The Trelawney Papers"
- edit J. P. Baxter; "Pioneers
on Maine Rivers"
- W.D. Spencer]. Fig.
148
- Winter of Maine John
Winter > Sarah Winter (b.c.1629, d.1648) = Rev. Robert Jordan, BA
(1634) Balliol College Oxford, Councillor and Judge (1611-1679), son of
Edward Jordan of Worcester, the King wished to name him Bishop of New
England > Lieut. Dominic Jordan, resident of Saco (1660-1703) called "The
Indian"
- he killed Indians and was killed by them = in 1681 > Capt. Samuel
Jordan, resident of Saco (1683-1742) married in 1718, Indian interpreter
for Governor Shute, was 7 years in captivity in Canada, distinguished
Indian fighters and merchant > Hannah Jordan = Marril > Nahum
Marrill > Ann Marill = Cobb > Chester Cobb > Harriet Mary =
Smith. [Pedigree
of New York City Magistrate W. Bruce Cobb sent to Major Ryland]. One family of Winter descended from Captain Charles Winter of Gloucester, Massachusetts and his wife Louise Wharf whose son William Winter (b. 15.7.1836, d. 30.6.1917), was Charles Dickens's friend. William Winter married Eliza Campbell in 1860 and had 5 children. Their son Henry Louis Winter, who predeceased his father, married Dicken's sweetheart Maria Beadnall and either he or his son became a vicar in Newcastle. Baptisms
at St. Paul's Bunhill, Row, Finsbury: 07.07.1846
- Ella Maria, d. of Henry Louis Winter and his wife Maria Sarah. 31.07.1854
Gertude Mary Beadnall Winter, d. of Henry Louis Winter and Maria Sarah his
wife. In his memoirs William Winter wrote: "As
a poor boy I gathered blue berries on the rocky hills back of Gloucester
or rambled with other barefoot vagrants on the wharves. Boston of 50-60 years ago was a Puritan city.
As a boy I dwelt and sported on Old Fort Hill and made my
playground all along the waterside from Constitution Wharf to Charlestown
Bridge. The Common, the Back
Bay, the dry docks, the India Wharf warehouses of which the doors often
stood open, liberating a delicious alluring odour of cinnamon and cedar. From
the top of Fort Hill was a mysterious winding stairway of stone, down
which the adventurous truant could make his way to the precincts of the
docks, sometimes reclining on the sun-warmed planks of the silent piers
and dreaming over the prospect of moving ships and the distant islands of
Boston harbour." ["Old
Friends" -
William Winter]. The author was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in July 1836, the son of Captain Charles Winter (1800-73) who was buried in Massachusetts. William left Boston in 1859-60 "when the nation was trembling on the brink of Civil War" which was over by 1876. William Winter was a member of Suffolk Bar and a student of Harvard Dane Law School. He was associated with the New York Saturday Press as sub-editor and delivered a poem at the Centenary Celebration of the Declaration of Independence. He knew Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, George Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens whom he visited in London. William Winter also mentions in his memoirs George William Curtis, Augustin Daly (a writer) and Arthur Elphinstone (Lord Balmerino). The family of Winter of Meath, Ireland claim descent from from the Winters of Wych through Christopher Winter of Oxfordshire, son of Thomas Winter of Balsall, Warwickshire. There were two Christopher Winters in Gloucestershire, one of English Bicknor and the other of Lydney but neither left a surviving son called Christopher according to the records there but they may have moved. Christopher Winter of English Bicknor, Gloucestershire was servant to George Wyrall, he married Anne (bur. 3.11.1615 at English Bicknor) and had a daughter Elizabeth (bur. 20.7.1618). Another Christopher (bur. 5.1.1696 at Lydney) married Hannah and had 2 sons William (bapt. 15.6.1691), Christopher (bapt. 10.11.1696, bur. 28.10.1699 and a daughter Ann (bapt. 19.3.1692). There was also a group of Winters in the records of the church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields where Christopher Winter married Jane Syster on 26.7.1604 (No. 87).
The Meath arms were "checky argent and azure, a fesse", crest "a martlet". Fig.
159
- Winter of Meath. Christopher Winter of Oxfordshire, yeoman > Samuel Winter DD (b. 1603 Temple Balsall, Warwickshire, d. 1666) of Agher, near Summerhill (his seat), was forced to resign the living of Cottingham, Yorkshire where he was rector and ordered by the Roundhead goverment to go to Ireland where he became Provost of Trinity College, Dublin but was removed at the Restoration and acquired estates in King's County Meath and Westmeath = married Anne Beeston at Boston, Lincolnshire in 1650 >: 1.
Samuel Winter (d. 1670), eldest son confirmed by Letters Patent of Charles
II in 1668
= Elizabeth, d. of Colonel Sankey, an officer under the
Commonwealth > Samuel (d.
1692) = Mary, d. of Francis Pywell of Possicktown, Co. Kildare >
Rev. Sankey Winter
(obsp 1736), archdeacon of Killala, Dean of Kildare = Elizabeth, d.
of Rev. William
Lloyd, bishop of Killala. 2.
Francis Winter (d. 1743) succeeded his brother Samuel = Margaret, eldest
d. of
Benjamin Pratt of Agher, Co. Meath by his wife Jane, d. of Thomas
Nugent of
Clonlost, Co. Westmeath and his wife, the daughter of Cooke of
Cookesborough in
the same country. >:
(a) Jane Winter = Rev. Edward Reynell and left, with other issue,
Richard Reynell of Killy--. Westmeath.
(b) Mary Winter = Nicholas Reynell of Reynells obsp.
(c) Samuel Winter (d. 1811), inherited Agher from his grandfather
James Pratt whose son John Pratt died
without heirs. In about 1763
Samuel = Margaret, youngest d. of Joseph Robbins
by Margaret his wife, d. of Sir Henry Piers, baronet of Tristenough,
Westmeath, eldest sister of the 1st earl of Kerry and grand
daughter of Hon. H.
FitzMaurice >:
(1) Francis Pratt Winter in holy orders. (2) Samuel
Pratt Winter = Frances Rosetta Bamford and left 5 sons and 5
daughters, George, Samuel, Trevor, Mary, Margaret, Frances, Arbella
and Anna-Maria-Sarah. (3) Anne-Maria
Winter. (4) Arbella Winter
= George Bomford of Brumlargin, Co. Meath left 2 sons George and Samuel Bomford of the Dragoon Guards. (5) John Pratt
Winter of Agher, Co. Meath (b. 31.5.1768), magistrate for Meath
and Kildare, deputy lieutenant and high sheriff of Meath in 1806,
succeeded
his father on 19.5.1811 = on 4.8.1794 Anne, youngest d. of Captain
Arthur
Gore of the East India Company, younger son of William Gore of
Barrowmount, Co. Kilkenny >:
A. Samuel Winter = Lucy,
2nd daugher of James Sanderson of Cloverhill, Co. Cavan.
B. John Francis Winter,
lieutenant in East India Company 59th Bengal Infantry.
C. Benjamin Pratt Winter. D. Anne Winter = William Humphrys of Ballyhaise House, Co. Cavan.
E. Margaret Winter.
F. Elizabeth Winter =
Rev. Thomas Gordon Cauffield of Benowen, Co. Westmeath.
G. Arbella Winter = her
cousin George Bamford of Drumlargin, Co. Meath The
latest entry in Burke's "Peerage"
was for James Sanderson Winter of Meath. Benjamin Pratt was son of Benjamin Pratt the elder by his wife Margaret, d. of James Mortimer of Lislin, Co. Cavan, who was younger brother of Joseph Pratt, ancestor of Col. Joseph Pratt of Cabra Castle, Co.Cavan. Jane,
eldest d. of Joseph Robbins married Thomas Barnes, barrister-at-law, and
left amongst other children, a son Thomas Barnes of Dunover, Co. Meath. Anne
Gore's mother was Catherine, d. of Admiral Pocklington by Elizabeth his
wife, d. of Sir Thomas and sister of the Rt. Hon Sir Compton Domville,
baronet, Clerk of the Hanaper and MP for Dublin.
Mrs Winter was through her father, first cousin of Lady Morres
Gore, Colonel Ralph Gore, Admiral Sir John Gore and through her mother of
Sir Compton Domville, baronet, and Rev. Christopher Savage of Balloymadun,
Co. Dublin. A
family of Winter or Wintershill lived in Bullingdon, Oxon., in 1517 and
Winter, a cordwainer of Oxford, held the manor in 1702.
The Winters held the manor of Iffley in the Bullingdon Hundred of
Oxfordshire in 1665. Littlemore
had been sold in 1622 to Sir Francis Stonor who conveyed a farm and mill
to Walter Kennington or Barnard and Richard Wintershill.
Elizabeth Stonor married Richard Wintershill of Little Stoke,
Oxfordshire. In his Will
dated 28.7.1652 John Winter of Littlemore, Iffley requested "to be buried in the churchyard of Effley." The
will was proved by F.--- alias Lawrence.
[No. 195 Bowyer Index Libr.
Admin. Vol. III, PCC]. Edward's Mill in the Brosham Hundred of Tadmarton, Oxon., was held by John Winter in 1530. In 1713 Edward Winter was churchwarden in St. John the Baptist, Stadhampton in the Dorchester Hundred of Oxfordshire. The Aldeburgh branch of the Winters also claim descent from Wych and bear their arms. There was a dockyard at Aldeburgh during the reign of Elizabeth I where the "Golden Hind" was built.
One of the branches of the Winters in Suffolk claimed descent from a John Winter who came from Holland as did a Scottish branch. Fig.
150
- Winter of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. John
Winter (1714-1790) = Mary Todd? (d. 1777) >: 1.
John Winter (b. 1740 d. 1814) = Jane, d. of Abraham Farley of St. John,
Westminster, rector of Tyningham, Bucks >:
(a) Philip Winter (b. 1744, obsp 1801), rector of Exhill, Co.
Warwick
(b) George Winter (b. 1781 d. 16.9.1873) = Hepzibah, d. of John
Wagstaff of Olney, Bucks >
Mark Winter (b.1826 d. 1895) = Ellen Marchant > Ernest Charles Winter
(1860-1895) = Eleanor Sewell.
(c) Robert Winter.
(d) Jane Winter.
(e) Henry Winter.
(f) Philip Winter.
(g) Hepzibah Winter
(h) Jacob Winter.
(i) Abraham Farley Winter.
(j) John Thomas Winter.
(k) Charles Philip Winter.
(l) George FarleyWinter. 2.
Todd Winter 3.
Hutchinson .Winter (bur. Wheathampstead church, nr. St. Albans, Herts. 4.
Philip Winter = Anne, d. of Lord Spencer Hamilton > Philip Winter (b.
1793,
d. 1874) of St. John's, College Oxford = Diana, d. of Robert Taylor
of Lyming Hall,
Cheshire >:
A. Walter Winter = Anne
d. of Henry Ransome of Ramsden > Henry Walter Winter (b. 14.4.1882), Cecil Winter & John Ransome Winter, major (b.
6.1.1.1885)
B. Arthur Winter = d. of
Lt. Col. Leycestres, KCGB >:
(1) Lt. Col. Charles Winter, DSO, 2nd Sikhs
(2) Philip Winter
(3) M. Winter = Gilroy
(4) Francis Arthur Winter CBE, DSO, Flight Lt? = ? > d. Annette
Winter = Wing
Commander D.F. Syd--?.. RAF
(5) 3 daughters.
C. Philip Winter =
Constance, d. of Hon. Henry Constance Dillon, Capt. RA.,
author of
"On the Queen's Errand" >:
(1) Philip Winter, Capt (d. 20.4.1915 Ypres)
(2) Capt.Gerald Charles Winter (b. 1881, d. 1940 lost at sea by
enemy action).
(3) Capt. Francis Constantine Williams Winter, Capt. (d. battle of Ctesiphon
22.11.1915). 5.
Capt. Robert Winter RA obsp. 6.
Henry Winter > decendants in Australia. 7.
James Cecil Winter, rector of Galton > 2 daughters. Fig.
151
- Winters of Bungay, Carbrook and Longham, Suffolk. Thomas Winter (bur. 1.7.4.1598 at Carbrook) = 21.1.1558/9 at Carbrook Elizabeth Lucking (bur there on.28.6.1597) > Edward Winter, 4th son (bapt. 7.7.1577 Carbrook and bur. there on 28.6.1641) = 6.7.1595 Mary George (bapt. 17.1.1680 at Longham) > Ambrose Winter, 5th son (bapt. 21.5.1609 at Carbrook bur Longham on 28.10.1671) = 26.7.1640 at Longham Mary Webster (bur. 31.3.1680 Longham) > Ambrose Winter 2nd son (bapt. 20.10.1655 Longham bur. there 2.7.2.1726/7) = 1.10.1689 Longham as 2nd wife Catherine Williment (bur. 9.7.1729 Longham) > Robert Winter, 3rd son (bapt. 4.4.1701 Longham bur. 29.2.1780) = (1) wife Anne (bur. 15.7.1733 Longham) = (2) Mary Lucas, widow on 19.11.1737 at Longham = (3) Anne (bur. .6.7.1770 Longham) >.Robert Winter, eldest son, twin to William Winter (bapt. .5.1.1736/7 Pentney d. 10.2.1806 bur. 23.2.1806 Loddon) = 27.12.1781 or 26.11.1781 at Pentney, Mary Platfoot > William Winter (b.15.3.1791 Loddon, d. 1.6.11.1867 Union workhouse, Shipmeadow, bur. Bungay St. Mary) = Martha Watson 2.12.1811 Bungay St. Mary entry 241, 9.9.1828 St. Mary's Bungay >: 1.
Martha Ann Winter (bapt. 2.4.1.1812) had a baseborn son Jon Morden Winter
(bapt. 10.3.1835 St. Mary's Bungay.
Anne was believed to have later married
William Gibson. 2.
Henry Winter (b. 1813 bur. aged 11 weeks Bungay St. Mary (12.9.1813). 3.
Amy Winter (bapt.29.3.1814). 4.
John Winter (b. & bapt. 14.12.1815) = Anne Matilda Cross Maulden on
8.8.1843
at Walworth >. issue [Pedigree
at College of Arms]. 5.
Eliza (b. 1819) believed to have married Smith. 6.
Rubin (believed bapt. Bungay Independent Chapel 298.9.1822) = Mary Collard
of
Walworth. 7.
Amelia (believed born 1826) = Robert Butcher, Bungay 25.7.1847. 8.
Ambrose (bapt. Bungay Ind. chapel 17.6.1821) = Jessica --? 9.
Vandyke Winter (born c. 1817). 10.
Alekna (bapt. 14.9.1828) = Henry Sayer of Southwold. 11. Walter Winter adopted name of Cornelius Jansen Walter (b. 11.1.1817 bapt.
14.11.1817 Bungay, d. 21.1.1891 Norwich bur. Rosary Cemetary,
Norwich
29.1.1891) = Anne Self Shipston 8.6.1841 Gt. Yarmouth (b.
24.11.1816 bapt.
28.3.1817 Redenhall d. 28.2.1853 Gt.Yarmouth bur. Redenhall
7.8.1853) >:
a. Ellen Sarah Winter
(b. 9.1.1853 at Preston) = Walter Harlock 1.5.5.1879 (he died 1891 at
Preston) > Walter William Winter (b. 15.5.1842) moved to Derby = 3 times,
bel. to have 2 daughters and 1 son, emigrated to Canada where his son married
and had female issue, d. Canada December 1924.
b. Arthur Jansen Winter
(b. 5.10.1843 bapt 19.10.1843 = twice possibly 3 times d. 12.18.1872 bur. 16.8.1874 at Gt. Yarmouth > issue 1 son 2 daughters.
c. Anne Elizabeth (b.
23.3.1846 d. 1.5.6.1879 at Manchester unmarried.
d. Neville Wilkie Winter
(b .9.11.1848, d. 17.12.1849 bur. Redenhall).
e. Holmes Edward
Cornelius Winter (b. 24.1.1851 Gt. Yarmouth d. 5.4.1935 St. Albans bur. St.
Alban's; Cathedral) = 29.9.1869 at Holy Trinity, S. Hingham, Norwich Charlotte
Dodman (b. 7.5.1853 Norwich, d. 23.11.1935 St. Alban's, bur. St. Alban's
cemetary 27.11.1935) >:
(a) twins stillborn
(b) Rose Charlotte Winter (b. 9.11.1882) = Allan Alexander
MacArthur (b. 8.5.1920
Aberdeen (d. 14.2.1971 sp)
(c) Mary Winter = Walter Gildon (d. 5.12.1978 obsp)
(d) Violet Winter = George Barkett > 2 d. living Rhodesia
married with issue.
(e) Wilkie Winter = twice married, issue by 1st wife, 1 daughter
and 1 son.
(f) Ivy Winter (d. in 2.3.8.1973 St Alban's).
(g) Vanholmes Winter (b. 29.1.1885 Redbourn, Herts., d. 4.12.1960
St. Alban's,
cremated Garston, Herts. 9.12.1960) = 28.6.1924 at St. Alban's Florence
Maude Blow (b. 13.4.1888 St. Alban's d. 14.5.1969 St. Alban's, cremated
Garston, Herts 20.5.1960) > Barbara Mary Winter, only child (b. 29.7.1925
St.Alban's) = 26.11.1935 Harry Cecil Hodges, only child (b. 29.7.1923.
Preston Bisset, Bucks) changed name by Deed Poll to Winter -Hodges >: A.
James Edwin Hodges (b.30.1.1957 St. Alban's = 26.11.1919 Jane Thalia
Funt (b. 9.2.1919) of
Bethesda, Maryland, USA > Charlotte Emily Thalia
Hodges (b. 13.1.1987, London) B.
Sarah Alison Hodges = 22.11.1915 David Halls, Watford Registry Office >
Barry Cecil Halls (b.2.5.1987 Watford). Not only is Winter a Saxon name found in Germany, Belgium and Holland but Flanders had also always been a bolthole for political and religious refugees from England from the time of the Norman Conquest up to the French Revolution. The Merchant Venturers Company had headquarters in Antwerp and the German Hansa merchants of the Steeleyard in London dominated English trade. "Dowgate
Ward - Next to Cosin Lane, on the east is the Steelyard, a place for
merchants of Almaine, that used to bring hither as well wheat, rye and
other grain, as cables, ropes, masts, pitch, tar, flax, hemp, linen cloth,
wainscots, wax, steel and other profitable merchandise.
Upon these merchants, in the year 1250 Henry III at the request of
his brother Richard, earl of Cornewall, king of Almaine, granted that all
and singular the merchants, having a house in the city of London, commonly
called Guilda Aula Theutonicorum, should be maintained and upholden
through the whole realm, by all such freedoms and free usages or
liberties, as by the king and his noble progenitors' time they had and
enjoyed. Edward I renewed and confirmed that charter of liberties
granted by his father. And
in the 10th year of the same Edward, Henry Wales being mayor, a great
controversy did arise between the said mayor and the merchants of the
Haunce of Almaine, about the reparation of Bishopsgate, then likely to
fall, for that the said merchants enjoyed divers privileges in respect of
maintaining the said gate, which they now denied to repair; for the
appeasing of which controversy the king sent his writ to the Treasurer and
barons of his Exchequer, commanding that they should make inquisition
theref; before whom the merchants being called, they when were not able to
discharge themselves, with they enjoyed the liberties to them granted for
the same, a precept was sent to the mayor and sheriffs to distrain the
said merchants to make reparations, namely, Gerard Marbod, alderman of the
Haunce, Ralph de Cussarde, a citizen of Colen [Cologne], Ludero de Denevar,
a burgess of Trivar [Trier], John of Aras [Arras], a burgess of Trivon [Trier?],
Bartram of Hamburdge [Hamburg], Godestalke of Hundondale, a burgess of
Trivon [Trier], John Dele, a burgess of Munstar [Munster], then remaining
in the said city of London, for themselves and all other merchants of the
Haunse and to they granted 210 marks sterling to the mayor and citizens
and undertook that they and their successors should from time to time
repair the said gate and bear the third part of the charges in money and
men to defend it when need were. And
for this agreement the said mayor and citizens granted to the said
merchants their liberties, which till of late they have enjoyed, as
namely, amongst other, that they might lay up their grain which they
brought into this realm inns, and sell it in their garners, by the space
of forty days after they had laid it up, except by the mayor and citizens
they were expressly forbidden, because of dearth or other reasonable
occasions. Also they might have their aldermen as they had been accustomed, foreseeing always that he were of the city, and presented to the mayor and aldermen of the city, so oft as any should be chosen, and should take an oath before them to maintain justice in their courts, and to behave themselves in their office according to law, and as it stood with the customs of the city. |