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Augustin W. G. Seaton Born abt 1902 Gloucestershire Violet Maud Acton Born abt 1903 Gloucestershire Ruth Margaret Caroline Born abt 1904 Gloucestershire Married Austin Norman Pilling Kenneth Hughes Born abt 1906 Gloucestershire
Augustin John Fitch de Winton |
b: abt 1879 Bristol, Gloucester 1879 1Q Barton Regis 6a 18 son of William Augustin de Winton and Caroline Eliza Fitch |
Maud Annie Bishop |
b: abt 1876 Gloucestershire 1876 1Q Bedminster 5c 730 daughter of George Bishop and Sarah Hardwick |
1 Jun 1901 Augustin John Fitch de Winton Maud Annie Bishop |
Parish Church, Westbury on Trym, Gloucester 1901 2Q Barton Regis 6a 453 22, Father: William A. de Winton 24, Father: George Bishop (Deceased) |
Augustin W. G. Seaton de Winton |
b: abt 1902 Gloucester 1902 3Q Bristol 6a 66 son of Augustin John Fitch de Winton and Maud Annie Bishop |
Violet Maud Acton de Winton |
b: abt 1903 Gloucester 1903 3Q Barton Regis 6a 244 daughter of Augustin John Fitch de Winton and Maud Annie Bishop |
Ruth Margaret C. de Winton |
b: abt 1904 Gloucester 1904 4Q Barton Regis 6a 237 daughter of Augustin John Fitch de Winton and Maud Annie Bishop |
Kenneth Hughes de Winton |
b: abt 1906 Gloucester 1906 1Q Bristol 6a 256 son of Augustin John Fitch de Winton and Maud Annie Bishop |
Augustin de Wintin and Maud with Ruth, Violet, Kenneth, and Augustin |
Seaton North de Winton |
b: abt 1907 Gloucester 1907 2Q Bristol 6a 233 son of Augustin John Fitch de Winton and Maud Annie Bishop |
Bruce Bishop de Winton |
b: abt 1909 Cambridgeshire 1909 4Q Chesterton 3b 378 son of Augustin John Fitch de Winton and Maud Annie Bishop |
1911 Census | RG14-50 | 3 April 1911 | Bedford, Bedfordshire | ||
Henbury House (9 Rooms) | |||||
Augustin de Winton Maud (Wife) Augustin Jr Violet Ruth Kenneth Seaton Bruce Plus 1 Servant |
Age 32 Age 35 Age 8 Age 7 Age 6 Age 5 Age 4 Age 1 |
Insurance Official |
Bristol Bristol Bristol Bristol Bristol Bristol Bristol Cambridge |
Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Cambridgeshire |
abt 1879 abt 1876 abt 1902 abt 1903 abt 1904 abt 1906 abt 1906 abt 1909 |
Augustin John Fitch de Winton |
Died 1912, Age 33, 1912 1Q Bedford 3b 389 |
A good starter to the history of this entire family is the following letter. It is a typed copy of a hand-written letter, written by the widow Maud de Winton. A copy of this letter was kindly provided by Michael de Winton, the Wilkins/de Winton Archivist. It was addressed to his great aunt Catherine Elmslie in 1928. |
167, Moorland Road,
Weston Super Mare,
January 1928
Dear Madame,
Thank you so very much for your kind letter, also for your notes it is very good of you.
I was so very interested to read your mother was a de Winton. My late husband was the youngest son of William de Winton late of Westbury lodge, Westbury Downs Clifton Bristol. He kept a boys school and his father was in the army and lived in the north of France. I expect you know all about the de Wintons though. The Earl of Winton was thrown into the Tower of London and escaped to France where he took the de to his name and all his wealth lands and title was thrown into Chancery. My husband's father's father wanted my husbands father to take a commission in the army which his friend The Duke of Wellington offered but he would not so his father turned him out of his home. He came to England and was a Tutor travelling and met his wife in Dorset....... Fytch and married and settled at Westbury Lodge Bristol. I think I have told you all I know my invalid son is the second heir to the peerage should it ever come back.
Thank you so very much for your kindness and kindly interest in us. I hope we shall meet some day but as we are very very poor its doubtful as I go nowhere, but should you ever come this way please give me the great pleasure of meeting you.
My best wishes for 1928,
I remain,
Yours sincerely,
(Mrs de Winton)
P.S.
Our great great great grandfather the Earl of Winton lost his estates and title and was sentenced to be beheaded in the Tower of London after the rebellion of the old Pretender. He escaped.
Our great grandfather Captain Winton, having fought through the Peninsular War determined to take his family to the south of France he never got further than Calais. He was there when Queen Victoria removed the penalties from the Scotch Earls. Our great grandfather had not the money to establish his claim to the Title so contented himself with the "de".
There is no French blood in the de Winton family since the Norman Conquest, when a member of the family called Saye, which ultimately turned into Sayton or Seaton.
Maud Annie (Bishop) de Winton | Died 1 Jul 1937, Age 63, Bishopstoke, Hampshire 1937 3Q Winchester 2c 140 |
de WINTON, Annie Maud, of Lington, Fairoak-road, Bishopstoke, Hampshire, widow, who died 1 July 1937, Administration Bristol 20 September, to Ruth Margaret Caroline Pilling (wife of Austin Norman Pilling) and Kenneth Hughs de Winton, civil engineer. Effects £2,576 6s. |