Sri Lankan Burgher Family Genealogy


A Collection of Poems – by the late Wendy Winter Garcia 1940-2005

 

WINTER - Family #1158

 

 

Contact Anne Winter Williams in the UK at cottesbrooke1@googlemail.com | cottesbrooke1@gmail.com

 

 

0 James Winter, b. 1771, d. 13.1.1841 at 11:00 pm, buried 21.1.1841 (Burial Register of St. Peter's Church, Walworth No 394, officiating priest was Rev J. F. Russell, Registrar George Gill Lowne), bricklayer (Robson's London directory) in 1822 at 11, Bolingbroke Row, Camberwell, (Pigot's Metropolitan Directory, 1827), living at 11, Bolingbroke Row, Walworth (borough of Camberwell) and (in the same Directory, 1838) at 10, Montpelier Street, Walworth Road (now Pelier Street off Walworth Road, in the borough of Southwark).  Walworth once spread through Peckham Rye and Camberwell.  James Winter was buried at St. Peters, Walworth in 1841 + Susannah Salter at St. Mary-in-Lambeth Church, on 18.5.1795 by W. Battel, curate in the presence of John Gibbs, James Singleton.

 

1  Charles Winter, b. 19.12.1796, bapt: 15.1.1797, bur. 26.4.1797 at Holy Trinity Church, Clapham (No. 3833, LCC).

 

1  George Winter, b:18-Feb-1798, bp:18-Mar-1798, Holy Trinity, Clapham by John Venn (No.3871, LCC), d:21-Jan-1853 at Galle, Ceylon, buried at All Saints Church, Galle, Ceylon + Sarah Cresse b:1799 d:Jan-7-1891 at Baddegama and buried at Church of England Cemetery, Galle (d/o David Cresse, postman Winchmore Hill, & Anne), m:23-Aug-1821 (by Thomas Durham in the presence of James Bowman, Anne Bowman, A. Cresse) 

 

    2  Sarah Anne Winter, b. 28.9.1822, and baptised at All Hallows, Tottenham on 23.10.1822.  She died on 8.6.1855 at "Beau Voir", their home in the parish of St. Saviour's, overlooking St. Helier and was buried on 11.6.1855 (Rev. Charles Marett officiating).  She + Joseph Deslandes, the Norwegian and Swedish Consul for the island and a banker at St. Brelades, Jersey on 15.3.1844 (Rev. F. Falle conducting the service).  He died on 28.12.1886 and was buried beside his wife.  They had no children.  (A George Deslandes owned the first permanent ship building yard in Jersey in 1821).

 

    2  Susannah Caroline Winter, b:17-May-1824 at sea off the coast of the Western Isles (The islands may be the Hebrides, the Admiralty Group NNE off New Guinea or most probably the Azores or Western Isles or the Western or Kerkennah Isles off North Africa.), and baptised at All Hallows, Tottenham on 20-Oct-1824, She travelled on the continent and died on 12.3.1907 at "Glan-y-Mor", Torquay and was buried in the Cocq family vault, her nephew the Rev. Charles H. Winter officiating. She left no children. + Robert Charles Rosemale Cocq, d:25-Dec-1866 and was buried in the family vault in Torquay cemetery.  (1160) 

 

    2  George Walter, born at Port St. Louis, Mauritius on 24.10.1825 (Baddegama Register. 203 No. 739) and baptised by the Hon. E. Finch.  He married at Baddegama on 29.11.1854 (Dr Garstin officiating) Henrietta Isabella Isobel Leighton.  He died at Baddegama on 1.4.1875 and was buried in Christchurch Cemetery, Baddegama.  George Walter was a writer in the Civil Service, gazetted on 13.3.1845.  There are many stories of his youth no doubt greatly exaggerated as for instance that he jumped on the back of crocodile and tried to gouge out its eyes.  Another that he followed a rogue elephant many days into the jungle until he shot it, when almost immediately he was surrounded by Veddahs (aborigines) who acclaimed him as a great benefactor for supplying them with a huge mass of fresh meat and invited him to stay several days with them, offering him as many wives as he pleased.  On another occasion, he is said to have been sawing some timber on a machine, someone from behind spoke to him, he turned round and the saw cut off two or three of his fingers.  He stopped the machine, wrapped his hand with his handkerchief, picked up the severed fingers, took them to Galle and had them put in a bottle of spirits.  Ever after he was known as the gentleman with short fingers.  He found a wife in Ceylon.  For many years Harriet Isobel in Jersey but eventually came to England living at Burton Crescent, Middlesex.  She died at the Stalls, Worcester on 29.9.1895 and was buried the cemetery at West Norwood with other members of her family.  George Walter and Isobel had four children.

 

        3  Walter Henry Trimnell Winter, Dr. b. 7.12.1855, bapt. 9.4.1856 and died on 24.12.1931.  He was educated at Clifton College and at the age of 16 he entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital with a letter of introduction to Sir James Paget.  He became a MRCS and LRCP and assistant to the Hospital at Wolverhampton.  He settled down to a practice at 9, Compton Road, Wolverhampton and eventually became a most eminent surgeon and physician. + Kate Tudor and lived at "The House that Jack Built".  "The original house was probably 18th century with extensions somewhat like a castle added either side.  It had a huge library with windows from floor to ceiling, some of which were bricked up to avoid the window tax.  The house was said to have a ghost.  The gardens to the rear were impressive.”  Apart from being a GP Dr Winter was the Medical Officer of Health for Tattenhall, Wolverhampton from about 1900 to about 1931.   His daughter, Dorothea, drove her father around in a pony and trap.  Dorothea gave health and beauty classes, both in the library and the garden about 1948 to 1955.  My typing lady attended the classes.  The house has now been demolished." (Glen.A. Harrison, "Roots in England", Woodlands, High Arcal Road, Himley, West Midlands DY3 4DB).  He had three children: Adrian born 1888 who went to New Zealand in 1914 and was killed by direct shell fire when serving as a machine gunner on Lone Tree Hill, Dardanelles on 29.4.1915.  A brass memorial at Christchurch, Baddegama reads "In memoriam Adrian Winter, New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, son of Dr. W. H. T. Winter and great grandson of the late George Winter of Baddegama".  Dr W. H. T. Winter's second son Geoffrey became a doctor but died young.  He married Cornelia Cross and they had a son Peter John Winter. he third child was a daughter Dorothea, writer of the letter to Mr Ryland.

 

        3  Mary de Sevigne Winter, born in 1861 and died in August 1900 at 514, Barking Road, Essex.  She married Arthur Perry but had no children.  She left her estate to Eliza Bathurst of 31, Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington who gifted it to Mary's sister.

 

        3  Alice Beatrice Deslandes Winter, b. 13.12.1864, bapt. 9.4.1865 and died on 27.10.1931, being buried in the vault at Tattenhall, Wolverhampton.  She was a spinster and lived with her brother Dr. W. H. T. Winter

 

        3  Harriett Ethel Rochford Winter, b. 8.5.1867, bapt. 3.11.1867 and died in 1952.  She was buried at West Norwood by the side of her husband + Talbot Charles Vincent Shortland of Bank House, Newport, Isle of Wight.

 

            4  Ruth Isabel Shortland b. 1899, d. unmaeried.

 

            4  Molly Ethel Shortland, b. 1901 + Aleric Brooke, great-nephew of the first rajah of Sarawak & lived later Brazil.

                5  Jill Violet Brooke b. 1924 + Name Not Known

                    6  Serita ???

 

                5  Diana Mary Brooke b. 1926 + H. R. Hooper in 1947.

                    6  George Hooper, issue

                    6  Sandy Hooper, issue

                    6  John Hooper, issue

 

            4  Betty Shortland, b. 1908, d. unmarried.

 

            4  Violet Vincent Talbot Shortland, b. 1909 d. February, 1985 + in 1937, Betty Cordelia Bond d. May, 2003.

                5  Penelope Shortland of Markham (north of Toronto, Ontario) + Thomas Nicholas Hughes in 1969 and emigrated to Canada in 1972, divorced in 1985 and lives with Tor Vesterlund.  Children:

                    6  Thomas Matthew Hughes (b. July, 1972) + Isabelle Pelletier of Lachute, Quebec in October, 2003 

                    6  Melinda Hughes (b. 1974)
e-mail 10.3.2004 re: Winter family 1158 from Penny Hughes

penny.hughes@sympatico.ca

 

“I was fascinated whilst browsing on my computer to find the above-noted family tree, especially as I found myself on page 5 - Penelope Shortland, daughter of Vincent Talbot Shortland and Betty Cordelia Bond.  I thought you may be interested in some update from my part of the family.  I was married to Thomas Nicholas Hughes in 1969 and emigrated to Canada in 1972.  Thomas Matthew Hughes was born in July of 1972 and Melinda Hughes was born in 1974.  I was divorced in 1985 and have lived with Tor Vesterlund, originally from Sweden, since then to the present time.  My son Thomas Matthew (Matt) was married to Isabelle Pelletier of Lachute, Quebec in October of 2003.  My father Vincent Talbot died in February of 1985 and my mother Betty Cordelia died in May of 2003.  Obviously my aunts Ruth, Molly and Betty are dead.  Ruth and Betty never married and Molly married Aleric Brooke and lived for many years in Brazil.  My cousins also mentioned on that page were Diana Mary (who is now dead), had 3 children, George, Sandy and John.  I believe they now all have children.  I have their addresses but do not keep in touch except 2 years ago when my mother died they contacted me.  Jill Violent is still living and has 1 daughter, Serita.  I would be very interested if you know whereabouts of any of the family who live in Canada.  I am living just north of Toronto, Ontario in a town called Markham.  I look forward to hearing from you when you have the time.  I know we are all permanently on the go these days.”

 

    2  Amelia Winter, b. 10.3.1829, baptised by the Rev. J. Bailey at St. Paul's, Colombo on 13.4.1829.  She was married at St. Saviours, Jersey to Carl Hopfengartner on 30.87.1859 (Rev. Dr Garstin officiating).  Carl Georg Friedrich Hopfengartner of 56,111 Hohenheimerstrasse who died on 20.8.1895 was a "landgerichtsrat" (judge) who was publicly praised by King Friedrich for his excellent work.  He was councillor of the provincial court of Stuttgart in the Kingdom of Würtemburg.  He had a son Herman who lived at Lindfield, Nuwara Eliya who qualified as a doctor of medicine and allegedly died of "over-study".  His sister Annie was a clever painter who went to Ceylon to work in the Blind School with the American Missionary Society.  She died on the voyage back to England.

 

    2  Edward James Winter, born at Kalutara on 8.11.1830, was baptised at Cotta by the Rev. J. Selkirk on 2.1.1831 and died in Galle on 12.6.1862 aged 31 years and was believed to have been poisoned by a jealous butler putting diamond dust in his drink! This is not as unlikely as it may first seem as it is quite easy to get jewel dust from any of the goldsmiths who work on pavements in eastern cities and it is quite often used in paint.  He was buried in the old Church of England cemetery, Galle.

 

    2  William Sextus Winter, b. 1.8.1832, bapt: 2. 8.1832 by the Rev. J. Wenham, died of diphtheria at Baddegama on 12.8.1844 and was buried in the north verandah of Christchurch, Baddegama where there is a stone tablet over his grave with the inscription "Sacred to the memory of William Sextus, 6th child of George & Sarah Winter Died 11th August 1844”

 

    2  Lydia Septima Winter, b. 1.8.1834, bapt: by the Rev. H. Wenham (Dr. Garstin officiating) + 6.1.1858 Haverstock Hodsell Bowman, b. 15.1.1835, d. 24.8.1880.  He married as his second wife, Adelaide Bourdon Hayley born 10.4.1838 daughter of Thomas Harrop Hayley of Castleford, Yorkshire by his first wife Juliana Robinson.  Thomas Harrop Hayley was son of William Hayley and Catherine Harrop.  The Hayleys owned a ship; the "Percy Douglas" registered in Liverpool on 8.8.1861 (No. 44135, 781 tons 172 ft.  3 long, beam 32 ft 3 19.8 deep) which sank off Rangoon on 1.4.9.1871.  They had a company Charles P. Hayley in Ceylon.

        3  Anne Cress Bowman + Steuart Binny Curtis

            4  Muriel Annie Curtis

            4  Eleanor Margaret Curtis

            4  Lilian Mary Curtis

        3  Anne Bowman

        3  Caroline Henrietta Bowman

        3  Lydia Margaret Bowman 

        3  [6] Edward Deslandes Bowman, son of Haverstock Hodsell Bowman, descended from Thomas Bowman, partner of George Winter + [7] Evelyn Gertrude Winter

            4  [8] Edward Ainsworth Bowman 

            4  [9] Alfred Haverstock Bowman + Doris Gertrude

                5  Geoffrey /Jeffrey) Haverstock Bowman formerly of Colchester, Essex + in 1963 Susan Claudia Bostock (1, son & 1 daughter). Geoffrey was chairman & partner of Price Waterhouse (when he may have audited BCCI), then became First Parliamentary Counsel attached to the Parliamentary Cabinet with Richard Gillingwater, Chief Executive & Shareholder Executive (formerly of Credit Suisse First Boston).

                5  John Bowman, of Colchester, Essex

                5  Mary Bowman + John Ford (now deceased)

            4  [10] Rex Bowman + (?)

                5  Rex Bowman junior of Chalk House Green, near Reading, Berkshire + Dale (?), issue

            4  [11] Annie Bowman + John (?) McEwen

            4  [12] Mary Marguerite Bowman + (1) Mr Parry + (2) George Butler

 

    2  Alfred Octavius Winter, b. 10.6.1836, bapt. 26.9.1836, at Galle.  He died at Baddegama on 12.10.1883 and his widow Maria Eveline (nee White) married Harry Street.  She born on 18.11.1845 at "Temple Trees" (now the official residence of the Prime Ministers of Ceylon) which was owned by John Walbeoff, a relative of her mother + Maria Eveline White, at Tuticorin on 10.12.1863, witnesses, W. E. Underwood, D. G. Underwood, James Bowman, lived at 'Temple Trees' Colpetty, Colombo 3, the home of her cousin, Charlotte who married John Walbeoff who then owned it (1161).

        3  Alfred William Rosmale-Cocq Winter of Pillagoda Valley, Baddegama, b. 21.11.1864 at Unanvitiya, a small estate belonging to his father on the banks of the Gin Ganga below Mapalagama, d. 1931 + Dorake Vithanagé Johana alias Hinnihamy (common law spouse), b. 1880, d. 1919 at Galle Hospital, in 1897.  Allie, as he was affectionately known, became manager of the Gintota Saw Mills belonging to the Udugama Tea and Timber Company (now the Government Plywood Factory).  He bought shares of an estate from the rest of the family and planted it up with rubber, later giving it to his brother Daly who was not interested in the place.  It was eventually sold to a Mr Soyza.  Early in 1902 he bought Pillagoda Valley and went to live there on 5.8.1904.  About this time he met Dorake Vithanagé Hinnihamy alias Juana who had worked at the saw mill and lived with her.  He built a house on the site of an older one built by his grandfather George Winter and took up residence in the house on 5.8.1915.  He eventually had 1,000 acres and also manufactured sugar and distilled rum but lost a considerable fortune in the venture owing to the low prices obtained and the government ban on rum (which was only allowed to be manufactured in the West Indies).  He then planted the land with rubber and tea.  He visited England, travelling via the Cape of Good Hope in the hope of meeting some of his Afrikaaner friends and going on a lion hunt.  He stayed with his brother Rev.  Charles Henry Winter at the vicarage, Elsdon, Northumberland and went to a grouse shoot on the moor lands.  He returned to Ceylon in 1928 with his wife Shelagh Basile Horner whom he married on 22.12.1931 at the Brompton Oratory, London.  He died at Galle on 22.12.1931 and was buried at Christchurch, Baddegama.  His widow married Wilfred Eyre who committed suicide at Kandy.  She retired to England and lived at Burnt Hill Road, Farnham, Surrey up to the 1960s.

            4  Hilda Dagmar Winter, born at Gintota, Galle on 28.6.1898 + Joseph van der Poorten of Galagedara, at Ganegama Church, Baddegama on 5.2.1920.  Joseph born at Greenwood Estate, Galagedara on 27.6.1895, son of Antoine Joseph van der Poorten senior, a Fleming who escaped to Ceylon after being ship-wrecked, in a small boat with one other man from the Belgian Congo and married a Sinhalese lady.  Hilda died at Alfred Place, Colpetty (Kolupitiya), Colombo in the late 1960s (1159)

                5  Aileen van der Poorten, born at Rock Hill Estate, Galagedara on 17.6.1921, baptised at Ganegama Roman Catholic Church, died on 13.1.2002 at Aberfoyle Park, S. Australia aged 80, bur. Centennial Park Cemetery, Goodwood Road, Daw Park, S. Australia + (1) Bernard William Ayres, on 8.6.1945, divorced her first husband and both her children died.  She lived with her 2nd husband, in Australia Jozefus ("Joe") Mathys Lodewyk Hoek (b. 28.3.1930 Holland, d. 29.7.2001, Date of Service: 3.8.2001, Age: 71 years, Funeral Company: Fulham Funerals, Last Address: Aberfoyle Park, South Australia, Memorial Details: Medika Walls, Wall 1, Position A011 Aberfoyle Park, S. Australian aged 71, bur. Centennial Park Cemetery, Goodwood Road, Daw Park, S. Australia); address: 2-4 Jeanette Crescent, Aberfoyle Park, S. Australia 5159.  Aileen was ill and amongst other ailments, suffered badly from glaucoma so could not see very well.  She has grand children.

                    6  Romaine Ayres (died of cancer) + Trevor Patterson

                        7  Andrew Patterson

                     6  Jerry Ayres (committeed suicide)

                        7  Name Not Known

                        7  Name Not Known

                        7  Name Not Known

 

                5  Brian Roger van der Poorten, b, 21.12.1922 at Katugastota, baptised at St. Thomas College, Mount Lavinia by the Rev. Foster married Prema and had about 3 or 4 children (Bryan died young). 2nd spouse: + Prema 

                    6  Louise van der Poorten married  a boy from Galagedera (1 son b. 1987 & daughter b. 1994)

                    6  Charmaine van der Poorten (b. 1969) married Pastor Trevine Peiris

                        7  Dexter Peiris (b. 1898)

                        7  Trisha Sandrine Peiris (b. 1993)

                    6  Rohani van der Poorten (b. 1994/5) unmarried

                    6  Laurance van der Poorten (b. 1971) unmarried

                5   2nd spouse Brian Roger van der Poorten: + Padmini.  They have children in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

                5  Joyce Inez (Anudhi) van der Poorten, born at the First Nursing Home, Kandy on 5.2.1930 and bapt.  the Jesuit Seminary, Ampitiya. + James Stevenson Gorrie of Dundee on 26.9.1946 and divorced him.  She had no children.  She divorced him.  She married (2) William Charles Wentworth Jnr., the son of a well respected Australian statesman, in Ceylon in 1967.  Their daughter Lisa born in Sydney, Australia, in 1969.  Anudhi arrived in Australia from England in 1954.  She owned and ran, with a partner, the first curry house in Melbourne called the Ceylon Restaurant which became a meeting place for various overseas entertainers with whom she maintained life-long friendships.  These included Louis Armstrong, Harry Belafonte, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Katherine Dunham and her Dance Company and Luisillo and his Spanish Dance Theatre Group.  Anudhi and Lisa came to live in Byron Bay in 1976.  Anudhi became a Local Government Councillor in 1980 and spent 15 years in Council, resigning in 1995.  Lisa now lives in Perth, Western Australia.  Anudhi is a Sinhalese name by which she chooses to be called by.

                    6  Lisa Wentworth

 

            4  Violet Dagmar Winter, b. 30.3.1890 at Gintota + Reginald Hermon, planter.  She died on 14.9.1966 and was buried at Kanatte Cemetery, Colombo.

               5  Rex Hermon who studied law and became a barrister but gave this up to become a planter, + Rose Richardson, daughter of James Richardson of Baddegama.  He and his family emigrated to Australia.

                5  Maurice Hermon + Mrs. Loos but had no children.  They emigrated to Australia.

                5  Richard "Dicky" Hermon married an Eurasian girl and had at least 2 children, They emigrated to Australia.

                    6  Susan Hermon

 

            4  Nora Winter, born 12.9.1900 at Gintota, died aged 15 months.

 

            4  Hero Dagmar Winter, b. 4.1.1903, d. 12.1909 of dysentery, buried at the Mahodara Christian Cemetery, Galle.  The epitaph reads "In loving memory of Hero Dagmar, born 4.1.1903, died 12.8.1909 - It is well with the child."

 

            4  [2] Norman Dagmar Winter, b. 18 Jun 1906 at Pillagoda Estate, Baddegama, d:1964 (age 58) + [1] Nancy Mabel Winter, b. 11.4.1912.  Norman was educated at St. Thomas Church Missionary Society College, Mutwal, Colombo, went to the Seale Hayne Agricultural College, Devon and then to the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens.  He became an inspector in the Rubber Control Department during the World War II.  He worked as a planter on various commercial company estates and then became superintendent of Pillagoda Valley from 1948-1956 in partnership with his brothers Sydney and Rioty as shareholders.  They bought out the shares of their half-brother Alfred Anthony Winter and his mother Shelagh (nee Horner).  Norman married his cousin Nancy "Mabel" Winter, daughter of his uncle Edmund Winter of Galagedara on 11.7.1936 at the Methodist Church, Colpetty (Kalupitiya), Colombo.

 

WINTER-WINTER: The marriage took place on Saturday evening at the Methodist Church, Colpetty of Mr Norman Winter of the Rubber Control Department and Miss Nancy Winter, daughter of Mr & Mrs E. Winter of St. George's Estate, Galagedara.  The Rev. E. R. Lee officiated.  The church was tastefully decorated with palm leaves and arum lilies.  There was an arch of palm leaves at the foot of the altar.  The service was choral.  The bride, who was given away by her father, was attended by Miss J(essie) Winter and Miss M(ary) Burnane as bridesmaids, while Miss P(hyllis) Winter was flower girl and Master Tony van der Poorten page.  The bridegroom was supported (sic) by Mr A(ldo).  Sansoni as best man and Mr M(ervin) Pereira was groomsman.  The attesting witnesses were Mr George Johnston of Urugala and Mr Sansoni of Negombo.  The bride wore a gown of silver lamé, the gauged skirt fell into a long train.  The bodice was neatly fitting and had a softly draped neckline.  Long wide sleeves were caught at the wrist with tight-fitting cuffs.  A band of hand- embroidered crystal and silver beads encircled her waist.  Her tulle veil was held in place with a halo of mother-of-pearl leaves and buds of blossom.  The bridesmaids wore white taffeta frocks in the Regency style with wide flared skirts, fitting bodices with cheminette necks of pin-spot georgette buttoning down to the back.  The puff sleeves were of white pin-spot georgette.  They had silver love-knots on the skirts and wore white gauntlets (sic).  Red rosebuds and silver leaves adorned their hair.  They carried bouquets of red carnations tied with silver and red ribbon.  The flower girl was attired in a similar way..  The page wore a smart gabardine suit.  Amongst those present were: Mr E. G. Kennedy, Miss W. Hermon, Miss E. Hermon, Miss de Zylwa, Mrs W. Winter, Miss G. van der Straaten, Miss Norah Perera, Miss L. Jansz, Mr B(ertrand). Hermon, Miss B. Hermon, Mr & Mrs Sansoni, Miss M. Sansoni, Mr R. Breckenridge, Miss Mona Sansoni, Miss C. de Vos, Miss E. Herft, Miss C. Orr, Mr & Mrs S. C. Blacker, Mrs J. W. Ponniah, Mr & Mrs C., Hermon, Mrs Prins, Mrs G. S. Sansoni, Mrs. H. R. Hepponstall, Miss A. Sansoni, Miss L. Sansoni, Mr G. S. Sansoni, Mrs R. Modder, Misses S. & M. Modder, Miss E. Bevan, Mr L. Bevan, Miss L. Wright, Messrs D. & M. I.  Hepponstall, Mr P. Silva, Mr & Mrs D. Johnstone, Mr & Mrs H. Gray, Mr W. Sinnetamby, Miss L. Jayawickrema, Miss G. Bandaranaike, Miss W. Pinto Jayawardne, Miss E. Silva, Miss C. Amarasingha, Mr & Mrs B(enjamin). van der Poorten, Mrs D. Winter, Mr & Mrs C. W. Pereira, Mr H. D. Jayasingha, Miss M Hepponstall, Mr K. Kumaraswami, Mrs L. Arndt, Mr E. Winter, Mr. H(umphrey), Gray, Miss D. Pereira, Miss M. Sansoni, Miss de Alwis, Miss D. Modder, Rev. F. D. de Silva, Mr & Mrs J(oseph), van der Poorten and Mr & Mrs Johnson (July 11th).

 

Norman and his family emigrated to the United Kingdom on April 1959 where he died aged 58 at Kingston-upon-Thames Hospital on 18.11.1964, was cremated on 21.11.1964 and his ashes interred on 13.12.1964 at Christchurch, Baddegama.  Mabel died on 16.7.1967 at the Cottage Hospital, East Molesey, Surrey aged 55 years, was cremated and her ashes interred at Christchurch, Baddegama.

 

Received from Anne Winter Williams in the UK on Feb 17 2022

There is a mistake on the genealogy site. Dad worked for Willie Hermon on Abanpitiya Estate which owned and NOT the Vanderpoortens . It was Grandpa Alfred (Alle that asked Willie Hermon if Dad could creep learn the ropes there as he was not allowed to live with his Father at Pillagoda. Willie Hermon married into the Carson family of the firm Carson Cumberbatch &Company Ltd. My cousin Richard (Dickie) Hermon was of this family and like us the Hermons were the only family of that name in Ceylon. Dickie's Mum, Violet Winter , was my Dad' Norman's sister and also 1st cousin of Mum cos my parents are 1st cousins.

 

 

                5  [3] Wendy Florence Winter (born at St. George Estate, Galagedara in her grandfather, Edmund’s house on 12.1.1940, but her uncle Joe registered the birth at Greenwood Estate because her father was working for him at the time on one of the van der Poorten estates at Ambanpitiya) + 18.12.1966 [17] Jose García Pichel, of Villar, Silleda, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain, son of Rogelio García García & Concepción Pichel Sampayo of Noguera, Silleda, Pontevedra.

 

Obit: WINTER – Wendy Florence Winter Garcia, (born at St. George Estate, Galagedara, Ceylon, in her grandfather, Edmund Winter’s house on 12-Jan-1940) Passed away at Carta Gena Hospital in Lo Pagan, in the Murcia District, Spain on Saturday, June 4, 2005. Daughter of the late Norman Dagmar  Winter, (b:18-Jun-1906 at Pillagoda Estate, Baddegama, Ceylon, d:1964) & the late Nancy Mabel Winter, (b:11-Apr-1912). Wife of Jose Garcia Pichel of Spain. Beloved mother of Guillermo Garcia Winter (Ireland), Daniel David Garcia Winter (Surrey, UK), and Sara Elena Dorotea Garcia Winter, (Spain) Grandmother of Elena Maria Garcia Winter..May she rest in Peace!

 

                    6  [18] Guillermo Garcia Winter (b. 21.6.1967) and on 26.12.1995 at the Church of St. James, Glenmor, District of Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Eire, + [19] Mary (b. 22.9.1966 in Glenmor), daughter of William Hennessy of Glenmor, Co. Kilkenny, Eire.

                        7  [20] Elena Maria Garcia (b. 27.5.1997 @ Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey)

                        7  Rory William Garcia (b. 23.7.1999 @ Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey)

 

                    6  [21] Daniel David Garcia Winter (b. 26.2.1969) + [22] Angela Strange of New Malden, Surrey

                        7  Michael Joseph Garcia (b. 18.1.1999)

                        7  Molly Garcia (b. 30.9.2003)

 

                    6  [23] Sara Elena Dorothea Garcia Winter (b. 3. Feb. 1979 @ Kingston-upon-Thames Surrey, d. 14.11.1979 @ 40, Vine Road, East Molesey, Surrey).

 

                5  [4] Anne Marguerite Winter, b. 10.3.1942 + [24] Peter Graham Williams, m:Aug 4, 1960

                    6  [25] Anna Katrina Williams, b:16 Feb 1963 + S. Wallington

                        7  John Peter Beau Cherokee Williams Wallington, b: April 30th 2003

                    6  [26] Jeremy Peter Graham  born on 13 July 1965 + Sharon Santucci

                                7  Jack Matteo Williams:  born Nov. 22nd
                                7  Gioia Williams, b: Feb

                    6  [27] Laura Mellisandre Williams, b:21 Aug 1969 + in the Solomon (?) Islands Bryce Patterson of Australia

                        7  Verde Jack Paton Williams, born on 17th Aug.2006
                        7  Trieste Ardern Wyatt:   born. 22nd Sept. 2008
                                7  Jaspier;   born:   24th  Sept   2010

                5  [5] Roger (Rory) Edmund Winter, b. Jun 1947 + on 27.12.1972[28] Zofia Margarete Miners née Zagula (b. 1943, Cracow, then in Poland, now in Ukraine)

                    6  [29] Jan Norman Benjamin Winter, b. 27.12.1972

                    6  Two step children: Simon & Caroline Miners (in USA)

 

            4  Sydney Dagmar Winter, born on 17.3.1912 at Pillagoda Valley Estate and educated at St. Thomas CMS College, Mutwal.  He was sent to England in 1926 and studied at Edward VII Grammar School, Sheffield and then at St. George's Hill College, Weybridge, Surrey which later moved to Ashford.  He was employed with the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate during World War II and married on 13.4.1941 at St. John's Church, Wembley, Middlesex Dorothee Andrews, daughter of Hubert Andrews, the Maples Furniture representative in Paris.  Sydney worked as a motor engineer in England, later owning his own garage then returned to Ceylon where he rose to become managing director of the Rowlands, a Rootes Group Company.  He designed a motor boat and a trailer.  Dorothee's sister Gertrude was wife of Sir John Boothman whom she married in 1922.  Gertrude, Lady Boothman, died on 11.7.1979 at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and Sir John in 1957.  Dorothee died in 1979 at Hailsham, Sussex and was buried in the parish church there.  Her only son Paul born on 5..8.1943 at Leamington Spa and baptised at St.  John's Church, Wembley.

                5  Paul Winter + Joan Warnette,

                    6  Michael Winter b. 11.11.1973

                    6  Anna Winter b, 13.7.1977

                        7  Name Not Known

 

            4  Nora Winter died aged 15 months.

 

            4  Rioty Marshall Dagmar Winter, b. 3.7.1912 at Pillagoda, educated at St. Thomas CMS College, Mutwal, Colombo.  He was sent to the England in 1926 to the Edward VII Grammar School, Sheffield with his brother Sydney and then to St. George's Hill College, Weybridge, Surrey which later moved to Ashford.  He trained in electrical engineering at the Commercial College, Guildford and volunteered for the Home Guard during World War II, then joined the Royal Air Force where he held a King's Commission, serving in Italy, Greece, Austria, the Mediterranean and Egypt.  He was demobbed in 1947 and returned to England after a short stay in Ceylon.  He took up employment with the East Grinstead Urban District Council.  He finally returned to Ceylon in 1948. + (1) an English girl called Vera who was an ATS during the War and whom he divorced, (2) Nevanka, an Yugoslavian war orphan brought up by Austrian parents (3) Marga Jochem of German descent whose parents fled the Russian invasion of Prussia.  Rioty emigrated to Lübeck where he died in October 1990.

                5  Arnold William Winter b. 27.4.1960 at the Joseph Fraser Nursing Home, Colombo (certificate 1445, Wellawatte Division), baptised August 1960 at Warleigh Church, Dickoya + Alice Chow (of American-Chinese descent), last address 125, Kelly Lane, Media, Pennsylvania, USA.

                5  Vernon Hans Winter b10.11.1963 at the Joseph Fraser Nursing Home, Colombo, baptised at Christchurch, Baddegama 28.7.1964, living in Germany (TV cameraman).

 

        3   Alfred William Rosmale Cocq Winter: + Aslin Hettiaratchie (common law wife)

            4  Harold Dagma Winter, d. 15.10.2001, interred at St Sebastian’s Church burial ground, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (obituary published in the Sri Lanka Daily News, Tuesday, 16.10.2001) + Elaine

                5  Alfred Winter, 87, Boulevard Raspil, Paris 75006

                5  Erin Winter, computer programmer of 401, East 46th Street, New York

                5  Sandra Winter + Brixham in Norway

                5  Dennis Winter, planter in Ceylon

                5  Trevor Winter in Canada

                    6  daughter

                    6  daughter

                5  Cheryl Winter + Hill Alan of 23, Wimpole Street, London

 

WINTER­, HAROLD DAGMAR. Dearly beloved husband of Elaine, darling daddy of Alfred, Erin, Dennis, Trevor, Sandra & Cheryl, father-in-law of Patricia & Wijaya, darling seeya-daddy of Harshini, Niroshini & Dhanuka, son of the late A. W. Winter of Pillagoda Valley Estate, Baddegama, brother of Irene, Roxana & Lionel.  Cortege leaves residence 6/1, 1st Lane, Uswatte, Moratuwa for St Sebastian’s Church burial ground at 4.00 p.m. on 16.10.2001 [Note: "seeya-daddy" is a local anglicised colloquialism for grandpa, seeya = grandpa in Sinhalese]

 

            4  Irene Winter + Eric Heath.  She had a daughter Jenny by a previous relationship

                5  Jennifer Heath + Ron Adam

                    6  Katherine Adam

                    6  Ann Adam

                    6  Robert Adam

                    6  James Adam

            4  Roxana Winter + Ray Stuart, issue in Australia

                5  Leanne Stuart + Brian Kerr

                    6  Stuart Kerr

                    6  Daniel Kerr

                    6  Mathew Kerr

                    6  Emma Kerr

 

                5  Mandy Stuart + Darren Culverhouse

                    6  Tara Culverhouse

                    6  Nicholas Culverhouse

 

            4  Lionel Winter + Grace Russell, issue in Australia

                5  Russell Winter + Sandra Piper

                    6  Mark Winter + Allison Hirst

                        7  Brent Winter

                        7  Mason Winter

 

                5  Trevor Winter

                5  Craig Winter + Carol Scott

                    6  Lachlan Winter

                    6  Declan Winter

                    6  Dylan Winter

 

        3  2nd spouse of Alfred William Rosmale-Cocq Winter: + Name Not Known (common law wife)

            4  Willie Winter

            4  Mary Dagmar Winter

            4  Harry Winter

 

        3  3rd spouse of Alfred William Rosmale Cocq Winter + (4) Shelagh Basile Fan Horner, b.  1900 and d. 1971.  She went to Ceylon after 1928.  Her life in Ceylon was difficult due to the oppressive climate, the isolation and post-parturient depression.  She married secondly Lt. Commander Wilfred Richard Paul "Putty" Eyre, Ally's cousin and after his suicide returned to England where she lived at Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset till 1955, then Farnham, Surrey till 1965 when she moved to Cranleigh, Surrey, a house built by her son-in-law Jack Channing's company where she died in 1971 of cancer.

            4  Shelagh Evelyn Winter, b. 1929, (descendant from the barons Kilmaine) + Captain Matthew Capel Wilson, m:1954, Royal Army Veterinary Corps and emigrated to New Zealand after her marriage but returned after her separation.  She lived in the Isle of Man and then went to London where she has a shop retailing second-hand clothes and jewellery.

                5  Francisca Wilson, b. 1958 + Mills, m:1978, whom she divorced.  She returned to Auckland, New Zealand and Whangapora..

                    6  Carla Mills, b. Dec-1977

                    6  Zara Mills b. 10-Feb-1979

                    6  half-brother Sam Clarke, b. 1988

 

            4  Shelagh Basile Honer (Mrs. Winter), b. 1900: + Wilfred Eyre

                5  Paul Francis Cavendish Eyre, MD (b.1935) + Jackie.___?  He died in 1966 of a drug overdose.

                    6  Caroline Eyre

                    6  Richard Eyre

 

            4  Aline Winter, b. August 1930 in Ceylon, baptised at the church of the Sacred Heart, Elifritiya on 5.12.1930, godfather Jared Horner, godmother Emelia Horner by proxy.  She went to England in 1938, studied in a convent and lived in Somerset until 1955, then moved to Cranleigh where she ran a pony stud.  She was keen gardener and Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society.  She died on 25.3.1986 of cancer and in 1951 married Jack Channing, b. 18.5.928 in Burnham-on-Sea, son of a builder.  He was also a builder and lived at Cranleigh.

                5  Nicholas William Kilmaine Channing (b. 8.7.1952 at Weston-super-Mare).  He moved from Cranleigh to Ewhurst in about 1975 and then to Broadstone Farm, Oakwoodhill in 1982.

                5  Adrian Paul Frankfort Channing (b. 21.2.1954 at St. Martins, Brent Knoll, Somerset), moved from Cranleigh to Ewhurst in 1984, BSc Hons. Maths and Stats., Sussex University (1976), ACA (1982) ATII (1984), now has his own accounting business.

                5  Katherine May de Montmorency Channing (b. 8.2.1956 at Tadmore, Cranleigh), moved to Shanley Green (c.1984) and to Ockley (1987) married 21.9.1985 Stephen Michael Dallyn (b. 1951).

                    6  Benjamin Patrick Dallyn (b. 4.6.1990).

 

            4  Alfred Antony Winter, b.  1931, educated at Downside, lived at Worth during World War II, emigrated in 1949 to Rhodesia and joined the South African Police Force, moved in 1979 to Durban, South Africa and joined the army, a keen carpenter, married in 196- Rita Muller (her second husband.  She was brought up in Mozambique and had a son Cosia by her first marriage).  Tony retired in 1991.

                5  Julia Winter (b. c. 1967) + on 19.12.1987 Charles du Plessis

                    6  Mandy du Plessis b.88

                    6  Carmen du Plessis b. 1988

                5  Teresa Winter (Mrs Hussey) b. c. 1969, m. May 1992.

                5  Benedict Winter (b. c. 1974)

 

        3  George Edward Winter, born in 1869/70?, known as "Raja of Gothatuwa", died in 1928. Sent to England to recuperate on the advise of his Aunt Carry after an illness, educated by the Rev. Phillips and then sent to Florida in 1892 where he took up orange cultivation.  A severe frost affected and killed much of the trees except for one and folk from the County came to see 'Winter's tree which could stand the frost'. He also grafted 20 varieties of Orange on a tree at Pillagoda in Ceylon. He hunted with the famous Annie Oakley. He had a crocodile he had shot strapped to a long basket chair chair with large straw hat and pipe in its mouth. + Annie Lee

            4  Cressee Winter + John Pemble

 

        3  [7] Evelyn Gertrude Winter + [6] Edward Deslandes Bowman, son of Haverstock Hodsell Bowman, descended from Thomas Bowman, partner of George Winter

            4  [8] Edward Bowman

            4  [9] Haverstock Bowman

            4  [10] Rex Bowman

            4  [11] Annie Bowman

            4  [12] Mary Marguerite Bowman

 

        3  Rev. Charles Henry Winter, lived in Buckinghamshire, then moved to Elsdon, Northumberland where he repaired the rectory with £2,000 of his own money and tried to raise more for a school and the church.  He was 13 years at Elsdon and then moved to North Repps, near Cromer, Norfolk.  After 6 years he resigned owing to illness and bought a bungalow at Baughhurst, near Basingstoke.  After 10 years there, he moved to Farnham and eventually to "The King's Peace", Grayshott, Hindhead, Surrey at 82 years of age.  On his 80th birthday he visited his brother Edmund in Ceylon leaving the UK on 30.7.1951, arriving in Ceylon on 1.8.1951 + Caroline Harvey (descended from Robert Charles & Emily Girdlestone), on 6.7.1904.

            4  Caroline Beatrice Cresse Winter (b. 13.4.1905) at West Dulwich.  Carol went to the Domestic Science School, London University and finished a course at Seaford, Sussex.  She had a business in cake-making in Farnham and adopted a boy named Richard Charles.

            4  Eva de Sevigné Winter (b. 16.8.1906) at Alley Croft.  Eva did ambulance and Red Cross work during the war at Cranmer Hall, Norfolk under Major and Lady Evelyn Jones.  She joined the WRNS and went abroad then held a post in London where she met with an accident.

            4  Edith Gertrude "Trudie" Irene Winter (b. 18.11.Nov-1908 at Durweston, Dorset.  Trudie went to University and took an Honours Degree in History.  She became a librarian and went to the University of Liverpool; where she got a post.  She was private secretary to Dr. Coupland, Professor of History for 17 years and visited Egypt 3 times.  She collaborated with Dr. Coupland in writing a book on Medieval History.

 

        3  Sarah Cresse Winter, born at Baddegama on 22.5.1874 and when aged 22 went to join her brother George in Florida.  She married C. N. Chesshyre who had been a pupil at Fruitlands Park, later becoming a solicitor.  She met with an accident, being struck by lightning while sitting near the fireplace during a heavy storm.  It struck the gable of the house next door and the charge travelled along the telephone wires, striking her on the right side, practically paralysing her right hand.  She moved to Leesburg where her husband died on 16-May-1925.  Sarah died on 1-Jun-1962 aged 88, Married C. N. Chesshyre, on 21.11.1896, at the Church of St. John the Baptist, Montclair, Lake County, Florida, USA, Rev. J. H. Davet officiating.  The marriage recorded in Marriage Record Book Page 400 at James (?), Lake, Co, Florida USA,

            4  Ida Chesshyre (b. 16.8.1909) Mrs Miller

            4  Alfred Chesshyre (b. 17.11.1902) married Julie Shephard

            4  Julia Chesshyre (b. 18.11.1902), Mrs Shepard of St. Petersburg, USA

            4  Gertrude Chesshyre (b. 7.2.1912), Mrs EH Jackson of St. Petersburg, USA

            4  Charles William Chesshyre (d. 13.12.1910)

 

       3  William Sextus Daly Winter, born at Sunnyside, Baddegama on 25.2.1878, died Perth, Australia in 1951 + Annie Florence Gertrude Elizabeth Gray, b. 21.3.1890, d.  ec-1979.  He took up planting in Ceylon and farming in Australia.  He had 11 legitimate children, all born in Ceylon except Robert who born on the ship "Maloja" en route to Australia where they arrived on 21.12.1926 (1141).

            4  Nina Florence Gertrude Winter (b. 16.8.1912) + William Martin, m:25.4.1913 (b. 30.7.1913)

                5  Adrian William Martin (b.23.3.1939) + 1966 Sieneke Koster:

                    6  Robert Martin (b.12.4.1971)

                    6  Peter Martin (b. 27.4.74)

                    6  Yvette Martin b. 5.6.1972 (adopted) 

                5  Pamela Anne Martin (b. 6.10.1942) + in 1962 Dennis Clifford

                    6  Fiona Clifford (b. 13.4.65) Rachel (b. 6.8.1990)

                    6  Catherine Clifford (b. 22.11.1966) + Scott (b. 20.12.1992)

                    6  Sean Clifford (b. 1.7.4.1971

                        7  Brooke (b. 18..12.1990)

                    6  Elizabeth Clifford (b. 18.3.1975

                5  Coralyn Rosemary Martin (b. 6.10.1943) + 1963 Murray Duncan (b.(23.11.1940)

                    6  Anne Duncan (b. 2.7.9.1963) + Roman Olejko (b. 24.10.1962)

                        7  Stephanie Olejko (b. 30.6.1990)

                        7  Katelyn Olejko (b. 3.4.1992)

 

                    6  Wendy Duncan (b. 17.3.1967) + 1991 Steven Whan (b. 20.10.1956), 3 children

                    6  Roslyn Duncan (b. 9.8.1969)

                        7  Colleen Duncan (b. 24.5.71)

 

                5  Lynette Martin (b. 1948) + 1969 Michel Damnjanovic (b. 2.3.1946):

                    6  Natasha Damnjanovic (b. 5.5.1972)

                    6  Nicolas Damnjanovic (b. 29.1.1976). 

                5  Nancy Martin (.b. 2.6.1952) + 1969 Ronald Day (b. 3.10.1948):

                    6  Jeremy Day (b. 3.1.1974).

                    6  Mathew Day (b. 27.3.1975)

 

            4  Alfred Basil Daly Winter (b.7.2.1914, d. 2.11.1982) + Helena Justin Smith in 1945

                5  David Daly Winter (b. 26.7.1948) adopted

                5  Susan Winter (b. 15..8.1951) adopted + Brian Cook

                    6  Emma Cook

                    6  Kelly Cook

                    6  Elliott Cook

 

            4  Evelyn Beatrice Winter (b. 19.9.1915) + John Hunt in 1940

                5  Janice Mayoris Hunt (b. 1940) + Andrew Zeltins

                    6  Catherine Zeltins

                    6  Sara Zeltins

                5  Sandra Ann Hunt (b. 1943) + Con Buzios

                5  John Richard Hunt (b. 1943) + Valerie?

                    6  Craig Hunt (b. 7.12.1966 + Katherine

                        7  Danny Hunt (b. 8.4.1992)

                        7  Tricia Anne Hunt (b. 8.7.1870)

 

            4  Harriett Olga Winter (b. 3.8.1917) + 1941 Kenneth Ross

                5  Anthea Ross (1941) + 1964 Frank Ward

                    6  FIona Ward

                    6  Erin Ward

                    6  Macolm Ward

                5  Glenys Ross (b. Nov 1943) + 1966 Peter Davey

                    6  Michelle Davey

                    6  Katrina Davey

                    6  Bronwyn Davey

                    6  Nicholas Davey

                5  Patricia Ross + 1968 Alan Weeks

                    6  Christopher Weeks

                    6  Kate Weeks

                5  Jennifer Ross + 1973 John Growden

                    6  Alexander Growden (b. 1973)

                    6  Daniel Growden (b. 1976)

                    6  Luke Growden (b. 1979)

                5  Roslyn Ross + 1970 Wade Mathews

                    6  Brett Mathews

                    6  Tara Mathews

                    6  Kenton Mathews

                5  Kenneth "Mac" Patrick Ross

                5  Ian Ross Aleshia Ross

 

            4  Edmund Deslandes Winter (b.19.1.1919, d. 2.2.1991) + Betty Kidd (div)

                5  Lewis Winter Edmund Winter + (2) on 28.12.1947 Joyce (b. 23.2.1929)

                5  Maxine Winter (b. 7.12.1948) + Robert Benson (b. 29.11.1944):

                    6  Gregory Benson (b. 24.5.1967) + Lisa (b. 5.2.1968)

                        7  Zarli Benson (b. 1.11.1991) 

                    6  Mark Benson (b. 27.10.1970)

                    6  Donna Benson (b. 27.5.1972)

                5  Graham Winter (b. 9.7.1946) + Robyn McInnernie (b. 15.2.1947)

                    6  Sarah Winter (b. 4.12.1971)

                    6  Matthew Winter (b 4.10.1976)

                    6  Ronald Winter (b. 4.11.1978)

                5  Jeffrey Winter (b. 12.8.1953) + 1971 Sandra Vidich (b. 10.2.1955)

                    6  Sheryl Winter (b. 15.8.1971)

                    6  Leanne Winter

                    6  Michelle Winter

                    6  Kristy Winter

 

                5  Morris Winter (b. 11.2.1956) + Louise Dovey Erica Winter (b. 22.5.1991)

                5  Brett Winter (b. 28.112.1964) + Karen McGregor (b. 14.10)

                    6  Kendal Winter(b. 14.10.1991) 

                5  also stepchildren Jasmin and Dayle.

 

            4  Richard Sextus Winter (b. 19.2.1920, killed in action 1945 by Japanese) + Lorraine Medbury

                5  Richard (b. 1.4.6.1945) divorced

                    6  Darren Winter (b. 19.3.1985)

 

            4  Patrick Daly (b. 25.5.1921 killed in action 1945 by Japanese

 

            4  Millicent Kathleen Winter (b. 30.9.1921) + Ken Bowden

                5  Donald Bowden + Geraldine Trent Bowden

                5  Betty Bowden + John Montgomery

                    6  Michael Montgomery (b. 27.6.1981

                    6  Katey Montgomery (b. 1.11.1983) 

                5  Roseanne Bowden + Alestair Kerr

                    6  Tristan Kerr

                    6  Cameron Kerr

                5  Julie Bowden

                    6  Kenneth Bowden

 

            4  Ruby Elizabeth Winter (b. 12.1.1924) + Tom Curtin

                5  Mary Curtin (.b. 22.1.1951) + 23.6.1972 Reginald John Rofe

                    6  Sydney Rofe (b. 3.8.1973).

                    6  Thomas Rofe (b. 12.7.1976)

                    6  Susan Rofe (b. 24.8.1977)

                    6  Hanorah Rofe (b. 12.9.1979)

                    6  Jeremiah Rofe (b.8.8.1981)

                    6  Jacob Rofe (b. 16.1.1984)

                    6  Margaret Rofe (b. 23.5.1988

                    6  Cecilia Rofe (b. 26.11.1991)

 

                5  Joseph Curtin (b.14.12.1952) + 12.12.1981 Marie?

                5  Michael Curtin (.b. 12.3.1954)

                5  Rosemary Curtin (b. 26.12.1956) + 23.5.1987 Henry Pavlovich

                    6  David Pavlovich (b. 28.12.1986)

                    6  Rebekah Pavlovich (b. 22.6.1989)

                5  Marie Therese Curtin (b. 21.6.1959) + 25.6.1984 Michael McWhirter

                    6  Meghan McWhirter (b. 11.4.1984)

                    6  Sean Thomas McWhirter (b. 30.3.93) & stepson Michael McWhirter

                5  Bernadette Curtin (b. 10.1.1960) + 1.5.12.1979 Ross Hollywood.

                    6  Michelle Hollywood (b. 10.10.1980)

                    6  Andrew Hollywood (b. 10.12.1981)

                    6  David Hollywood (b. 10.3.1984)

                    6  Emily Hollywood (b. 18.7.1988) 

                5  John Curtin (b. 11.5.1962)

                5  Carmel Curtin (.B. 11.10./1963) + 12.1.1985 Gary Rapp

                    6  Matthew Rapp (b. 1.1.1986)

                    6  Laurie Rapp (b. 31.7.1988)

                    6  Andrew Rapp (b. 28.6.92)

 

            4  Constance Nellie Sarah Winter (b. 23.6.1925) + 1947 Robert Miles

                5  Judith Miles (.b. 2.1.1948) + 1970 Ross Bell

                    6  Jennifer Bell (b. 21.6.1972)

                    6  Roslyn Bell (b. 3.7.1975)

 

                5  Beverley Miles (b. 18..6.1949) + 1972 Ross Timms

                    6  Geoffrey Timms (b. 9.2.1973)

                    6  Leanne Timms (b. 13.10.1974)

                5  Roberta Miles (b. 17.6.1950) + 1973 John O'Sullivan Catherine O'Sullivan (b.20.7.1981) 

                5  Kathleen Miles (b. 8.4.1952) + 1971 Raymond Norton

                    6  Jason Norton (b. 27.2.1971)

                    6  Wade Norton (b. 11.10.1976)

                5  Richard Miles (b. 16.5.1954) 

                5  Allan Miles (b. 1.3.1956) + 1980 Judith Hansen div

                    6  Adam Miles (b. 26.9.1980)

                    6  Christopher Miles (b. 12.12.1981 + Natalie Gorman Sara Miles (b. 19.4.1993)

                5  Dennis Miles (b. 26.12.1958)

 

            4  Robert Maloja Warner Winter (b. 18.12.1926, d. 27.12.1970).+ Eunice Davey

                5  Daly Winter twin

                    6  Robert Winter

                    6  Steven Winter

                    6  Tyler Winter 

                5  Peter Winter twin (div)

                    6  Michelle Winter

                    6  Daniel Winter

 

      3  William Sextus Daly Winter

            4  Charles Winter (half brother of Sarah “Edna” Winter), b. 27 Jun 1902 married and with issue in Ceylon

 

            4  Muriel Winter (half sister of Sarah “Edna” Winter & sister o Mary), b:21 Oct 1904 + Ossie Pereira (Eddie's brother), Superintendent of Police in Colombo

                6  Astley Pereira + (?) issue in Ceylon

                6  Ernley Pereira + (?) issue in Ceylon

 

            4  Mary Winter (half sister of Sarah “Edna” Winter), b. 9 Sep  1908 in Baddegama     + Eddie Pereira, Superintendent of Police, Colombo

                5  "Bunty" Pereira married ? issue in Ceylon

                5  Maureen Pereira + an Englishman Frank Chenery

                    6  Mary Anne Chenery

                    6  Julie Frances Chenery

                5  Jeune Pereira + Richard Thiedeman issue in Ceylon

 

            4  Sarah “Edna” Winter, b. 7 Oct 190?, d. 18-Aug-1980 + Trevor Lorage, CBE, Director of Education, Ceylon, emigrated to UK and both buried in Kensal Cemetery

                5  Frank Lorage + Rosemary (children in Canada)

                5  Leslie Lorage + Vera McEwen of Ireland (no children)

 

      3  Edmund Winter of St. George Estate, Galagedara, b. 2.4.1879 at “Sunnyside”, Baddegama, bapt. 20.5.1879, d. 8.5.1962, buried at St. George’s Estate, Galagedara + Dassanayake Mudiyaniselagé Pahalagedara Kiri Menike, b. 17.7.1884 at Minigomuwa, Udapalata East, Tumpana (d/o Dassanayake Mudiyanselagé Pahalagedara Ranhamy & Dassanayake Mudiyanselagé Pahalagedara Tikiri Menika), d. 25.5.1968 and buried at Kandy.  Edmund was educated a St. Thomas CMS College, Colombo and Trinity CMS College, Kandy.  He started planting as a "creeper" (planting apprentice) on Baddegama Estate with his uncle Edward Deslandes Bowman in 1898, leaving to take up a billet as an assistant on Coodogalla Estate, Kadugannawa under Mr Stanley Hill.  After a period of 8 months he was transferred to Isabella Estate, Galagedara but left owing to a very bad attack of malaria.  He returned to Baddegama Estate and took up a post as a tea maker but after a few months he left and went to Alluta Estate, belonging to Messes J. J. van der Spaar & Co.  Due to a depression in the tea market, he left after two years, the estate being abandoned in 1901.  With his savings he started a small dairy in Kandy with one cow, walking barefoot to sell milk to his neighbour - this venture was not successful and he returned to planting on Betworth Estate (the former Isabella Estate) which was under the management of Mr S. Hillman.  After some time this estate changed hands and on leaving he found employment with Mr Hamilton Harding of Preston Estate, Dickoya..  Returning in June 1905 to Alluta Estate, he opened up 400 acres in rubber for Messrs Gordon Frazer & Co.  During these seven years of service, he saved sufficient money to purchase 42 acres of government land which was eventually opened up in rubber, he later acquired a further 60 acres from the villagers, which he also planted with rubber.  He called the property Uduwakande Estate.  When the rubber came into bearing (which normally takes 5-6 years), another 30 acres was purchased, extending the estate to 135 acres, 35 acres of which were planted with coconut and the rest with rubber.  The whole estate was named St. George.  In time when profits from these estates were good, he built a bungalow at St. George and when it was finished, he left Alluta Estate to reside there.  A further 58 acres in the North Central Province was purchased, planted with coconut and named Gurugoda Estate.  Later 300 acres was bought in the Kegalle District in and planted with rubber and cocoa called Labugolla Estate.  A final addition of 58 acres called Majuba Estate in the Galagedara District was made, this being planted with rubber and later a portion in cocoa.  All these properties amounting to 758 acres approximately were formed into a limited company in 1952 known as the Winter Estates Company, the directors being various members of the family.  On parts of the estate he had as many as 4 different crops growing at the same time, tea, rubber, coconut and pepper vines and vanilla growing up the palm trunks, cocoa and even an occasional coffee bush.  Extract from the Memorandum of Association of the Winter Estates Company Limited.  After suffering for several years from stomach cancer, Edmund died in the early 1960s and was buried in his orchard at St. George, Galagedara.

 

            4  Nellie Winter, b. 31.3.1903 + Benjamin van der Poorten, b. 12.5.1898 (1159)

                5  Antoine (“Tony”) van der Poorten junior + Miss Mendelsohn, divorced and had no children.  He lives at 20 Ellison Road, Streatham, London SW 16 5BY. [van der Poorten (Tony) son of Ben & Nellie vn der Poorten passed away peacefully aged 72 on the 5th November.  Funeral at 2.30 pm on the 15th November at West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood High Street, London S E 27.  No flowers please but donations to Imperial Cancer Research fund or to Trinity House hospice, Clapham Northside (yards away at Holy Trinity church].  Antoine’s ashes were to be scattered over Mexico, a land he loved very much and claimed that they were Eurasians like him too.  He was very well read and liked art, architecture, and history.  Tony’s obituary appeared in the Sri Lanka daily News on Thursday, 15.11. 2000 as follows:

 

TONY VAN DER POORTEN.  Son of Nellie and Ben, brother of Michael (Micky, UK), Emil (Canada), brother-in-law of Estella and Jean, uncle of Menika, Ranmal, Danny (Atkins), Peter, Anna, Ben, Michelle and Alain, passed away in the UK.  Much loved and sadly missed by friends and relations.  Funeral Thurs. 15th West Norwood Crematorium, London.  Details: 9A, 5th Lane, Nawala, Rajagiriya. Tel. 077 899 154

 

                5  Michael (Micky) Adrian van der Poorten (UK) + Carmini Meedeniya

                    6  Menika van der Poorten (in the UK)

                    6  Ranmal van der Poorten (Ceylon)

 

                5   Michael (Micky) Adrian van der Poorten (UK) + (2) Janet of Irish origin

                    6  Peter van der Poorten

                    6  Benjamin van der Poorten

                    6  Anna van der Poorten 

                    6  Also an illegitimate son Daniel Atkins

 

                5  [30] Emil van der Poorten (Canada) + (cousin) [31] Jean Gray (Canada)

                    6  [32] Michelle van der Poorten

                    6  [33] Alain van der Poorten

 

            4  George Winter +  Dassanayake Mudiyanselagé Bandumenike

                5  Bruce Winter + Dawn Jamieson emigrated Australia daughter in Australia

                5  Blossom Winter + H R Jothipala, a Sinhalese pop singer:

                    6  Waruni Wilochini Jothipala

                    6  Regina Jothipala

                    6  Esther Jothipala

                    6  Krishiai Jothipala 

                5  Doris Winter

                5  William Winter

                5  Thistle Winter
                5  Robert Winter

 

            4  Mary Winter, b. 21.9.1906, d. 17.10.1966, buried Nyanganga Cemetery, Kandy + Henry Humphrey Gray (s/o Dr. Henry Gray), b. 10.3.1895 (1141)

                5  Malcolm Gray + Viveca 2 daughters in Ceylon

                5  Marlene Gray + Trevor Cannon 2 sons in Canada married and with issue 

                5  Yvonne Gray twin with Peter who died at birth + Claude Aubry, a French-Canadian/Red Indian

                    6  Anil Aubry and daughter

                    6  Roseanne by another relationship who married but died soon after leaving a son. 

                5  Peter Gray** (twin of Yvonne died at birth)

                5  Anne Gray + Joe Joachim, no issue, emigrated Canada.

                5  [31] Jean Gray (her twin) + [30] hwr cousin Emil Hals van der Poorten (Canada) (1159)

                    6  [32] Michelle van der Poorten

                    6  [33] Alain van der Poorten

 

            4  Ernest Winter, b. 3.9.1904 + Mary Burnane

                5  [13] Diana Margaret Winter + [14] her cousin George Christopher Johnston

                    6  [15] Carmen Johnston

 

            4  Annie Winter (b.12.8.1910) + Richard George "Dick" Johnston, planter of Urugalla

                5  [14] George Christopher Johnston + [13] Diana Margaret Winter

                    6  [15] Carmen Johnston 

                5   George Christopher Johnston: + (2) [16] Helen Winter (née Pritchard)

                    6  Rocky Johnston 

                5  George Christopher Johnston: + (3) [34] Indira Gray, daughter. of Tarzan Gray (illegitimate son of Humphrey Gray)

                    6  [35] Rehana Johnston

 

            4  [1] Nancy “Mabel” Winter, b. 11.4.1912 + [2] Norman Dagmar Winter (cousins), 1906-1964

                5  [3] Wendy Garcia Winter (born at St. George Estate, Galagedara in her grandfather, Edmund’s house on 12.1.1940, but her uncle Joe registered the birth at Greenwood Estate because her father was working for him at the time on one of the van der Poorten estates at Ambanpitiya), d:2005 Spain + 18.12.1966 [17] José García Pichel, of Villar, Silleda, Pontevedra, Spain, son of Rogelio García García & Concepción Pichel Sampayo of Noguera, Silleda, Pontevedra. 

 

WINTER – Wendy Florence Winter Garcia, (born at St. George Estate, Galagedara, Ceylon, in her grandfather, Edmund Winter’s house on 12-Jan-1940) Passed away at Carta Gena Hospital in Lo Pagan, in the Murcia District, Spain on Saturday, June 4, 2005. Daughter of the late Norman Dagmar  Winter, (b:18-Jun-1906 at Pillagoda Estate, Baddegama, Ceylon, d:1964) & the late Nancy Mabel Winter, (b:11-Apr-1912). Wife of Jose Garcia Pichel of Spain. Beloved mother of Guillermo Garcia Winter (Ireland), Daniel David Garcia Winter (Surrey, UK), and Sara Elena Dorotea Garcia Winter, (Spain) Grandmother of Elena Maria Garcia Winter..May she rest in Peace!

 

                    6  [18] Guillermo Garcia Winter (b. 21.6.1967) + [19] Mary, d. of William Hennessy of Glenmor, Kilkenny, Ireland 

                        7  [20] Elena Maria Garcia (b. 27.5.1997 @ Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey)

                        7  Rory William Garcia (b. 23.7.1999 @ Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey) 

                    6  [21] Daniel David Garcia Winter (b. 26.2.1969) + [22] Angela Strange of New Malden, Surrey. 

                        7  Michael Joseph Garcia (b. 18.1.1999)

                        7  Molly Garcia (b. 30.9.2003) 

                    6  [23] Sara Elena Dorothea Garcia Winter (b. 3.2.1979, d. 14.11.1979).  She suffered from Down’s Syndrome and a hole-in–the-heart. 

                5  [4] Anne Marguerite Winter, b. 10.3.1942 + [24] Peter Graham Williams, m:Aug 4, 1960

                    6  [25] Anna Katrina Williams (b. 16 Feb, 1963) + S. Wallington

                        7  John Peter Beau Cherokee Williams Wallington, b: April 30th 2003

                    6  [26] Jeremy Peter Graham  born on 13 July 1965 + Sharon Santucci
                                7  Jack Matteo Williams:  born Nov. 22nd
                                7  Gioia Williams, b: 26th July 2010

                    6  [27] Laura Mellisandre Williams (born August 1969) + Bryce Patterson
                               7  Verde Jack Paton Williams, born on 17th Aug.2006
                               7  Trieste Ardern Wyatt:   born. 22nd Sept. 2008
                               7  Jaspier;   born:   24th  Sept   2010

                5  [5] Roger Edmund Winter, b. 8.6.1948 + [28] Zofia Zagula of Poland (Mrs Miner)

                    6  [29] Jan Benjamin Norman Winter

                    6  two step children: Simon & Caroline Miner (in USA)

 

            4  William Winter, b. 6-Nov-1915 + Hazel Reith of Longueville Estate, Matale

                5  Roy Anthony Winter born during a flash flood at Matale when all his hospital cot was swept outside by the water, emigrated Australia married (?), no issue. 

                5  Terry Winter + Name Not Known(?)

                    6  Alain Winter

 

            4  2nd spouse of William Winter, b. 6.11.1915: + (2) Peggy Hillman of Meesgastenne Estate, Hataraliyadda.

 

            4  Jessie Winter, b. 29-Jun-1914, d. Jan-1966 + Capt. Ivor Peter Murray, RN & RCN

                5  Angela Anne Murray emigrated Australia + Palitha Mahendra "Harry" Thambugalla (divorced).

                    6  Alison Anouchka Thambugalla.

                    6  Adrian Thambugalla. 

                5  Rodney Paul Murray, emigrated Australia, married___ (?), no issue.

 

            4  Victor Winter, b. 29-Nov-1918, murdered in 1950s during race riots, bur. St. George, Galagedara) + [16] Helen Pritchard (she emigrated to Australia after his murder, married (12) Victor’s nephew George Johnston and had a son, Rocky Johnston. 

                5  Cheryl Virginia Winter + C. Sellamuttu

                5  Louis Winter

                5  Eon Winter

                5  Michael W Winter

                5  Allan Winter

                5  Patricia Winter

                5  Veronica Winter

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Michael W. Winter OAM, Warrant Officer Physical Training (WOPT) of the Royal Australian Navy is currently on a three-year stint with the RAN in the Solomon Islands. He arrived in the Solomon Islands in January 2007.
At the recent Solomon Islands Independence Parade, Michael was announced as a recepient of a Solomon Islands Medal (Silver) for distinguished service to Sport and Community Service He will receive the award at next year's Independence Day Parade. During Michael's time in the Solomon Islands, he has used his abundant energy not only in the work place but in numerous works of charity both within his Church and through local sporting clubs and facilities. Michael is a credit to the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Defence Force.
The citation for this award is 'For dedicated and voluntary commitment in the development of Sports in the Solomon Islands and other Charitable Services'

Michael is the son of Victor & Helen Winter, from Kandy, Sri Lanka, when on shore leave, he lives with his family in Aspendle Gardens, Melbourne.

He is a credit to the community
Victor Melder - tormel@aardvark.net.au

Saturday, July 18, 2009, 4.42pm, AEST

 

            4  Dorothy Helen Winter, b. 28.3.1921 + George Albert Wood (Englishman in the British Armed Forces stationed in Ceylon during the World War II., emigrated to Hull, Yorkshire and she returned to Ceylon when they divorced.

                5  David Hencliffe Wood emigrated to UK + a Tamil girl Sarojini ___ (?). 

                5  Dorothy Anne Wood emigrated to Australia + van Cuylenberg (divorced)

                    6  2 daughters in Australia. 

                5  Rodney Keith Wood emigrated to UK + Ina ___ (?) from Scotland

                    6  Andrew Wood. 

                5  Lynette Hazel Beverley Wood emigrated to UK + Chandrasiri

                    6  Charlene Chandrasiri.

 

            4  Phyllis Winter, b. 19.1.1929 + Reginald Roberts, in September1951 (s/o John & Grace Roberts of Lelwela Estate, Baddegama),

                5  Ralph Roberts married ____ (?) issue in Ceylon

                5  Kevin Roberts married Sherie ____ (?)with issue in Ceylon, emigrated to Canada.

 

    2  Ellen Nova Winter, b. 7.4.1838 at Galle, died and was buried on 13.4.1838.

 

    2  Harriett Decima Winter, b. 12.1838 at Gindura and + at Baddegama + William Elphinstone Underwood, on 23.4.1863.  She died at the Queen's Jubilee Hospital, Richmond Road, Earl's Court on 4.8.1906 after being knocked down by a horse-drawn bus.  Mr Underwood was in the Civil Service, Madras, Presidency of India and magistrate and Revenue Officer of the whole of Wynaad at the time of his death at St. Thomas's Hospital, London on 1.8.1893. 

        3  Robert Charles Elphinstone Underwood born 1864, probably educated at Dulwich College and then under Rev. R. Philips at Hambledon.  He went to India in about 1883 and joined the Burma Mounted Police, married the colonel's daughter and became a colonel himself.  He served in Pegu, Lower Burma and had no children.

 

        3  William Elphinstone Underwood born 17.11.1867 and lived at Lordship Lane.  He went to Dulwich College and lived with his aunt Carry at 23 the Boltons.  He studied at the Crystal Palace School for engineering and went to India where he worked for many years in railway construction.  He retired in to England and eventually settled in the River Colony, South Africa + Sarah Miller.

From: richard@duff.org

To: winterwendy@hotmail.com

Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 8:57 PM

Subject: Missing You Message Reply - Underwood family

 

I believe I am one of the people you are looking for - my full name is William Richard Elphinstone Underwood, my father William George E. Underwood, and my grandfather William E. Underwood who I believe to be mentioned here:

 

http://www.pillagoda.freewire.co.uk/NOON.htm

 

            4  Gladys Underwood + Bertie North

                5  daughter

 

        3  Sarah Jessie Underwood was brought up by Carry, her aunt and had an excellent education.  She had a lovely voice and played both piano and violin well.  She + Paul Daniel Eyre in 1889 when he was rector of Newnham, Hampshire becoming a DD in 1900.

 

            4  Lt Commander Wilfred Richard Paul "Putty" Eyre, RN (b. 19.1.1893 married in 1933 Shelagh Basile Fan (nee Horner), widow of Alfred William Rosmale-Cocq Winter (d. Dec. 1931), daughter of Charles Jared Horner by his wife Emilie Frances, daughter of Rev. Henry George Cavendish Browne (see Barons Kilmaine).  Wilfred left the Navy after World War I suffering from shell shock.  He came to Ceylon to learn planting under his cousin Ally Winter and after his death Wilfred Eyre married his widow (nee Shelagh Basile Horner).  He committed suicide in Kandy and is buried in Kanatte cemetery, Colombo.

                5  Paul Francis Cavendish Eyre (b. 6.9.1935, died in 1966 of a drug overdose) + Jackie.___?

                5  Caroline Eyre

                5  Richard Eyre.

 

            4  Arthur Charles Benedict Eyre of 90, Eaton Terrace, London SW1 & Westburton House, Bury, Sussex (b. 21.3.1901, d. 1984).  Sir Douglas Hurd gave an impressive address at his funeral.), educated Marlborough.  Benedict went into tax exile.  He married on 27.9.1926 Evelyn Kate Lee of Hartwell, Bucks., d. of Philip Douglas Lee (see Lee of Hartwell) and had a daughter Tatiana Elizabeth Michelle Eyre (b. 12.12.1935) who married in 1960 Sir Douglas Richard Hurd (b. 8.3.1930), eldest son of Baron Hurd (d. 1966) by Stephanie Corner, educated Eton (King's Scholar & Newcastle Scholar); Trinity College, Cambridge (Major Scholar), President, Cambridge Union(1952), HM Diplomatic Service (1952-66), served in Peking (1954-56), UK Mission to UK (1956-60), Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office (1960-63), Rome (1963-66), joined Conservative Research Dept.  (1966), Head of Foreign Affairs Section (1968), Private Secretary to Leader of the Opposition (1968-70), Political Secretary to Prime Minister (1970-74), Opposition Spokesman on European Affairs (1976-79), Vis.  Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford (1978), CBE (1974), MP Mid-Oxon (Feb. 1974), Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, author.  Douglas Hurd had 3 sons.

 

            4  Dr Christobel Sybil Caroline Eyre, MD married in 1914 Admiral Wilmot Stuart Nicholson CB., (1872-c. 1946) of the Eastmore branch of the Nicholson family.  He was midshipman on HMS Calliope at Samoa (1889), Captain (1909), Flag Captain to Vice Admiral Commanding 4th Battle Squadron (1912-14), Captain D (X) Harwich Force (1915-16), Captain HMS Furious, Chief of Staff Admiral Commanding Aircraft (1917-18), Captain Aircraft Atlantic Fleet (1919), Rear Admiral (1920), Commander 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron (1921-23), Chief of Submarine Service (1923-25), Vice Admiral (1925), retired (1927), Admiral retired (1930), Officer of the Legion of Honour-  He lived at Ashburn Gardens, London SW7.  Son: John Nicholson (b. 11.4.1915), educated Charterhouse School.

 

Christabel was sent to Holloway jail under the Official Secrets Act for revealing that Winston Churchill and President Theodore Roosveldt knew in advance of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.

 

This was quite true (see “A Man called Intrepid - The Secret War 1939-45” by William Stevenson pp. 276-21, 282, 319-7, 351).

 

A Yugoslav patriot Dusko Popov codenamed Tricycle, first recruited as a spy by the Germans, offered to be a double agent for the British.  In June 1941 he was told by the Germans to go to the US but stopped on his way at Lisbon to meet them.

 

He was told that the Japanese were studying a method of using carrier-borne torpedo bombers against Pearl Harbour just as the British did in Taranto harbour, sinking half the Italian fleet.

 

The German Air Attaché Baron Gronau flew to Taranto specifically to carry out research on the operation and the Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matusoka went to Berlin with a team of specialists to secure details.

 

Tricycle was told all this and then given a questionnaire that focused on Pearl Harbour defences but he clashed with J. Edgar Hoover (who disapproved of Popov’s sex life) Tricycle’s preview of Pearl harbour passed into oblivion.  Churchill was too successful in distracting the President Roosveldt’s attention form the East and focusing it instead on Britain’s own immediate worries.

 

Two days before the attack the British Admiralty reported Japanese ships going to the Far East.  Pearl Harbour was attacked on 7.12.1941 (the Japanese ambassador broke off negotiations that morning).  Roosveldt (who was helping Britain secretly) was looking for an excuse to get American into the war openly.

 

        3  Robert Charles Underwood

        3  William Underwood

 

    2  Henry Frank Winter born at Baddegama on 7.12.1841 and baptised by the Rev. H. Powell on 17.1.1842.  He died on 10.4.1891 of bronchitis and influenza and was buried at Grouville, Jersey.  He had joined the Indian Forestry Department and had very severe sunstroke.  He was dependent on his mother and lived in lodgings in Jersey.  He was a tall, very thin man who spent his days writing page after of pages criss-cross fashions - no one knows what he wrote about.

 

    2  Charles Deslandes Church Winter, born at Baddegama on 11.33.1845.  On 28.7.1874 he married at St. Lukes, Church, Torquay, Alice Jane Lee, the service being performed by Rev. Alfred Lee.  The witnesses were Sarah his mother, John T. Lee, G. M. Currie, Carolie and Margaret Lee.  He entered the Bengal Civil Service and was stationed at Pudna, India in 1880 and the next year whilst visiting a sick syce1, contracted cholera and died on 8.4.1881.  He was buried at Monghyr, India.3 Percy Gibson Deslandes Winter of South Sea Hampshire.

 

        3  Charles Bertram Lee Winter of 19, Gwendwr Road, West Kensington 

        3  Hilda Beatrice Winter of 19 Gwendwr Road. West Kensington, member of the Huguenot Society.

 

1  James Winter, b. 1771, d. 13.1.1841 at 11:00 pm, buried 21. 1841 + (2) Lydia Alice Cresse (Creasey) on 22.10.1809 at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch (Batch No. M040802 Source Call 04505103 Parish registers 1558-1901 Mormon IGI) [provided by Ross Crockett, 15.10.2002].  There is also the marriage of a Sarah Creasey probably a sister or relative.

 

1 James Winter of Australia, formerly of Pillagoda Valley, Baddegama believed to have gone to New Guinea, bapt. 1.10.1815 at Camberwell Mansion House Independent Chapel.

 

1 William Cornelius Winter bapt. 3.12.18?? at Camberwell Mansion House Independent Chapel.  William Cornelius Winter, gentleman of Montpelier Street, son of James Winter, deceased, + Ellen Sarah Belville, daughter of John Henry Belville of Montpelier Street on 21.8.1845.  William was named as godfather by proxy on the baptismal certificate (No. 2610) (2620?) of his nephew Alfred Octavius Winter at Christchurch, Baddegama, Ceylon.  He was witness at the wedding of his sister Lydia Winter to Thomas Davies.  He may have lived at St. Helen's Villa, Bowes Road, Southgate, London and married secondly Mary Anne Clark (Land Registry No. 5449 dated 27.5.1880 regarding the lease of No. 2, Bernard Villas, Central Hill, Upper Norwood).  Sarah Winter nee Cresse, wife of George Winter lived at 2, Merton Villas, Central Hill, Norwood from 1884-1889.  William went to Bombay.

 

1 Jane Winter aged about 20 living in 1841 with her sister Lydia (census) bapt. 10.6.1821 at Camberwell Mansion House Independent Chapel.  Jane Dawson Winter of Montpelier Street, deceased and a minor + John Frew, a painter of 78, Theobald Road on 1.3.1842.

 

1 Lydia Winter bapt.13.2.1814 at Camberwell Mansion House Independent Chapel + Thomas Davies of Haymarket, saddler.  The witnesses were W(illiam) C(ornelius) Win=ter, Charles Townley, M. A. Kennet.

 

1 Sarah Winter bp:11.2.1818.

 

1 Mary Winter bp:12.9.1819.

 

1 Emma Susannah Winter, daughter of James Winter, bricklayer and Lydia Alice of Bolingbroke Row, bapt. 20.5.1827, St. Peter's, Walworth, born on 29.7.1826.  Emma Susannah of 5, Montpelier Street, a minor was married to Augustus James Dixon Belville, a watchmaker of 4, Crosby Road on 17.11.1846.  Mr Belville's father was John Henry Belville, gentleman of Montpelier Street.

 

NOTE: There is another Winter family not related to the above.  This is the family of Norman Winter, either an Englishman or a white South African of English descent.  He lived in Galle and was a contemporary of Norman Dagmar Winter.  This Norman Winter had 2 young daughters (younger than Anne and Wendy).  We got to know of them because the banks used to confuse my father with this Norman Winter.  Sent in by e-mail: Wendy Winter Garcia in Spain í.  Above family tree data provided by Anne Winter cottesbrooke@aol.com in the UK and Wendy Winter Garcia in Spain, with contributions from the late Dr.  Malcolm Jansze in Colombo mjansze@sltnet.lk and Sandy Austin in New Zealand.  Correspondence on the above family during the collection and publishing of the genealogy.

 

From: Hans Zijlstra hzijlstra@yahoo.com

To: Wendy Winter winterwendy@hotmail.com

Cc: Victor Melder tormel@dezzanet.net.au; Malcolm Jansze mjansze@sltnet.lk; Anne Marguerite Williams cottesbrooke@aol.com Kyle Justin Joustra <kj.genealogy@bigpond.com Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 5:18 PM

Subject: Re: Roosmalecocq & Maria Eveline Winter (née White)

 

Dear All,

 

Very interesting to see how a Dokkum based luitenant (and later captain) went out to Ceylon and survived the difficult voyage.  As a Vereniging (Association) of 300 members with an interest in genealogy and regional history of North Eastern Friesland (around the city of Dokkum, also 'famous' for its murder of St. Boniface in 754 A.D.) we would welcome information that relates back to Dokkum, e.g. specific findings from Roosmale Cocq’s testament of 1764 (?).

 

A similar example we have was a family from Dokkum that went to New Amsterdam (New York) of which letters from 1753 are online at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rbillard/hutse_letter.htm

 

If we find more information about Pieter Ambrosius Roosmale Cocq in Dokkum we will let you know.  For a map of Dokkum in the 17th century I can refer to  http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/maps/blaeu.html.  Best regards, Hans Zijlstra, webmaster 'Vereniging van Archiefonderzoekers te Dokkum'

http://www.angelfire.com/vt/sneuper

 

From: Wendy Winter Garcia winterwendy@hotmail.com

To: Hans Zijlstra

Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002

 

Hans - Thanks for sending the websites.  I printed out the lovely map of Dokkum.  My love of maps must be inherited from my ancestor Johan Schneider of German descent who was a cartographer during the Dutch period in Ceylon.  I also downloaded the articles about the history of Dokkum and with the aid of my German dictionary will try and understand as much of it as I can (I was a member of the Institute of Linguists for 30 years and thoroughly enjoy translating).  Fazli Sameer has just put some photos of my family on his Ceylon Rootsweb site including one of Maria Evelyn White, my great grandmother and daughter of Henrietta Roosmalecocq & Anthony Samuel White.

 

Alas!  We have no documents in our family that survive from that time.  There may be some in the Ceylon archives or even in Holland itself.  There must be some records of their colonial administration in the mother country and also of the Dutch East India Company (I have a coin the VOC minted).  I know records survive in Portugal of their colonial period in Ceylon.  As far as the Ceylon Records Office is concerned, my English cousin Adrian Channing tried to get a copy of my grandfather Ally's Will but they refused him a copy.  I will keep in touch and let you know if anything turns up.  My regards, Wendy Garcia.

 

From: Wendy Winter Garcia winterwendy@hotmail.com

Rozmccutcheon@lineone.net

Gengroup

 

Roz - I found this information (see below) on one of Fazli Sameer’s websites or one linked to his.  I don’t know what connection (if any) this family of Gloucestershire & Ceylon had with Elliott, owner & editor of the "Colombo Observer."

 

Gengroup - Roz is descended from Christopher Elliott (owner of "The Colombo Observer" & co-editor with George Winter) via her grandmother Winifred Elliott who was his grand daughter.  Roz born in Ireland and lives in London.  If anyone turns up any information on Elliott, please forward to Roz and copy to me.  Thanks.  Wishing you all a very happy Christmas.  Regards, Wendy Garcia, Dec 2002

 

Ceylon Name List 1800-1900 C-F

Name Relationship Approx Census D-o-B

ELLIOT, Christopher Head 1850 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Catherine M.  Dau 1871 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Charles W.B.  Son 1876 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Edward C.  Son 1874 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Marjorie A.  Dau 1879 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Thomas Head 1850 Ceyl Devo

 

gengroup

Dear All -

A nice person called Ross Crockett of Perth, Australia found the second marriage of my great great great grandfather James Winter, bricklayer of Clapham to Lydia Alice Creasey and a lot more information.  We think Ross is descended from James’s brother John who married Charlotte Salter, who (we are almost sure) is Susannah’s sister.  A descendant of Christopher Elliott contacted us too. 

Regards,

Wendy.

 

They had the following children:

Charles WINTER born about 1771 and died on 13th January 1841.

John WINTER.

Hannah WINTER.

George WINTER born about 1779 and was buried on 6th October 1848.

 

By 2nd wife Lydia Alice Cresse;

Mary WINTER.

Jacob WINTER.

William WINTER marries Sarah KNIGHT on 6th July 1812 in Saint Bride’s Fleet St, London, Eng.

 

James WINTER born about 1771.  He died on 13.1.1841 in Walworth, London and was buried on 21.1.1841 at St. Peter's Walworth, London = (1) Susannah, d. of William & Mary Salter in May 1745 at St. Mary-in-Lambeth= (2) Lydia Alice Creasy 22.10.1809, St.  Leonard’s, Shoreditch (FHI Film 405103 dated 1908-1812).

 

Bricklayer of Walworth

Pigot's Directory of 1822/23, bricklayer of 11, Bolingbroke Row, Walworth

Pigot's Directory of 1827, bricklayer of 11, Bolingbroke Row, Walworth

Pigot's Directory of 1838, resident at 10, Montpellier Street (now Pelier St),

Walworth

 

James Winter married (1) Susanna SALTER, daughter of William SALTER and Martha, on 18.5.1795 in St Mary's, Lambeth, Surrey.

 

James and Susanna have the following children:

Charles WINTER born on 19.121796 and was christened on 15.1.1797 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey.  He died on 26.4.1797 in Clapham, Surrey.

 

George WINTER born on 18.2.1798 and was christened on 18.3.1798 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey.  He died on 21.1.1853 in Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

 

John WINTER born on 23.11.1800 and was christened on 14.12.1800 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, possibly emigrated to Ireland.

 

Harriot WINTER born on 23.2.1803 and was christened on 23.3.1803 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey.

 

James married (2) Lydia Alice CRESSEY (CRESSE) on 22.10.1809 in Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London.

 

James and Lydia had the following children:

Ann WINTER born on 5.12.1810 and was christened on 13.1.1811 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey.  She died before 1817.

 

Jane WINTER born on 16.8.1812 and was christened on 27.9.1812 in St Giles, Camberwell, London.  She died before 1821.

 

Lydia WINTER born on 5.12.1813 and was christened on 13.2.1814 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey.  Lydia married Thomas DAVIES on 8th June 1843.

 

James WINTER was christened on 7.10.1815 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey.  He was on Pillagoda and emigrated to Australia or New Guinea.

 

Ann WINTER born on 20.11.1817 and was christened on 11.1.1818 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey.

 

Sarah WINTER born on 20.11.1817 and was christened on 11.1.1818 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey.

 

Mary WINTER was christened on 12.9.1819 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey.

 

Jane WINTER was christened on 10.6.1821 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey.

 

William Cornelius WINTER born on 15.6.1824 and was christened on 3.12.1824 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey.

 

John WINTER (brother of James b. 1745) married Charlotte SALTER, daughter of William SALTER and Martha, on 11.9.1797 in St Johns, Wapping, London.

 

20.-Sep-2001
Closenberg Hotel at Galle was very dear to us when we played on the beach as kids. It was destroyed and oil storage tanks placed on th the loveliest and safest beach in the south and such an act of eco vandalism was committed when it was closed. Closenberg was originally a Dutch fortification. It was bought by an English merchant Marine who was with the East India Company and his Arms lie over the door or so it is thought. They show the suns rays. However, they maybe that of the EIC itself. I wonder whether the merchant knew my ancestor who took the first Anglican missionaries in his ship to Baddegama nearby where the first Anglican church was built. He was the Sugar pioneer, George Winter, a merchant marine also with the EIC who was part owner of the ship 'Vittoria'. He founded and edited the first independant newspaper in Ceylon, now alas taken over by the State as were his former plantations which belonged to us. I often played on the ramparts of the Fort and sipped lime juice at the NOH. Nearby is the Dutch church where George's memorial is. I attended the Galle Convent. My ancestor first reached Ceylon in the 1800's and my Dutch and German ancestors before that. I wanted to establish an environmental charity at our former home near Hikkaduwa but the local M.P is in charge and hands out land like a Rajah for votes. Due to my ancestor, many local families made good and prospered as did the area. He provided the local ships which called at Galle with sugar and distilled Citronella oil from lemon grass, a variety is named after my own grandfather who sent it to Kew where it is preserved.


Our lovely, peaceful island has been ruined. Hikkaduwa, completely spoilt. I am afraid that Tourism destroys much as well as corrupt politicians. There is no justice in Lanka anymore and it saddens me when I return to our once lovely Closenberg as I did in 1994/5 and I am sorry you will never know just how wonderful the area was. Koggala was also lovely and one could swim safely and observe the coral as we did at Hikkaduwa. I wonder if you have visited any of these places? If I find the brochure I got from the Hotel I will send you a copy.
 

Sincerely,
Wendy Winter Garcia & Anne Winter Williams website: Pillagoda Plantations: The Golden Falcon

Email: cottesbrooke@aol.com & winterwendy@hotmail.com

 

5.8.2004
Temple Trees was once the home of John Walbeoff, head of the Cinnamon Dept in 1830 about whom tales of duels and murder were written. His wife, who left him, was the daughter of the Baron Von Lynden. His had a son, John Edmund who was a Wrangler at Cambridge University and later in the Ceylon Customs. John Edmund married Charlotte, daughter of Robert Carl Roosmalecoq and had a daughter, Catherine Jane, who married George Adolphus Hole, who was son of the Rev. George Hole of the Wesleyan Mission by his wife, Selina Tranchell. The latter family were of Swedish descent. Selina was daughter of Lt. Gustavus Adolphus Tranchell,of the Ceylon Rifle Regt. the son of John Tranchill, who was appointed, Swedish Consul in Ceylon by his King, Gustavus Adolphus, after whom he named his son.

 

Before the Walbeoffs, the residence was occupied by the Baron Frederick Mylius, social reformer and anti-slaver and C.E.Layard of the CCS. The latter was guardian to the children of Dr Abraham White who died young after attending a patient with a contagious disease leaving his widow and seven children in distress.


One can imagine the White and Layard children (there were 26!) playing in the lovely gardens where my own gt. grandmother, Evelyn White, made her first cries.
 

The gardens I saw, were reminiscent of English ones and I watched the President's spaniel romp about in 1995. I heard it was lit with fairy lights for Independence day. A sight, I wished I had seen whilst staying near by at the GFH.  However, the security in place now, must be far removed from those happier, times. It proves that, colonial regimes could be benevolent under whom, all races lived in peace.
I hope this will interest the families mentioned.
 Anne Winter Williams

cottesbrooke@aol.com

 

John White served with the 51st Regiment and the 3rd Ceylon Regiment between 1805 and 1817. He married a Johanna Day, not totally sure of the surname, possibly in Ceylon where they had several children John born 1 May 1805 and Caroline 25 Dec 1814. Anybody have any info about this family or any of the names especially Johanna? Thanks

 

20.7.2004

Dear Jas. White,

I have only the following which is a memorial:July 8,1819-John White: Capt. White, half pay, 3rd Ceylon Regt.He had been in the 2nd Ceylon Regt. was cashiered, but re-instated in 1817, He joined the 2nd Ceylon Regt. as 2nd Lt August 15,1805, and became Adjutant, (vice) Collier, Nov.20, 1805 and 1st Lt, Sept.2 1807.
Another descendant got in touch with me about this individual but I will have to trawl thru'my Emails to find his name.//I hope this helps.
Anne Winter Williams

 

Omnia vincit veritas

 

PHOTO ALBUM

 

0  2nd Spouse of JAMES JOHN WINTER, b:1771, d:13-Jan-1841 at 11:00 pm, buried:21-Jan-1841 + Lydia Alice Cresse (Creasey) on 22.10.1809 at St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch (Batch No. M040802 Source Call 04505103 Parish registers 1558-1901 Mormon IGI). [provided by Ross Crockett, 15.10.2002]. There is also the marriage of a Sarah Creasey probably a sister or relative.

   1  James Winter of Australia, formerly of Pillagoda Valley, Baddegama believed to have gone to New Guinea, bp:1.10.1815 at Camberwell Mansion House Independent Chapel.

   1  William Cornelius Winter bp:3.12.18?? at Camberwell Mansion House Independent Chapel. William Cornelius Winter, gentleman of Montpelier Street, son of James Winter, deceased, + Ellen Sarah Belville, daughter of John Henry Belville of Montpelier Street on 21.8.1845. William was named as Godfather by proxy on the baptismal certificate No.2610 (2620?) of his nephew Alfred Octavius Winter at Christchurch, Baddegama, Ceylon. He was witness at the wedding of his sister Lydia Winter to Thomas Davies. He may have lived at St. Helen's Villa, Bowes Road, Southgate, London and married secondly Mary Anne Clark (Land Registry No. 5449 dated 27.5.1880 regarding the lease of No. 2, Bernard Villas, Central Hill, Upper Norwood. Sarah Winter nee Cresse, wife of George Winter lived at 2, Merton Villas, Central Hill, Norwood from 1884-1889. William went to Bombay.

   1  Jane Winter aged about 20 living in 1841 with her sister Lydia (census) bp:10.6.1821 at Camberwell Mansion House Independent Chapel. Jane Dawson Winter of Montpelier Street, deceased and a minor + John Frew, a painter of 78, Theobald Road on 1.3.1842.

   1  Lydia Winter bp:13.2.1814 at Camberwell Mansion House Independent Chapel + Thomas Davies of Haymarket, saddler. The witnesses were W. C. Winter, Charles Townley, M.A. Kennet.

   1  Sarah Winter bp:11.2.1818.

   1  Mary Winter bp:12.9.1819.

   1  Emma Susannah Winter, daughter of James Winter, bricklayer and Lydia Alice of Bolingbroke Row, bp:20.5.1827, St. Peter's, Walworth, born on 29.7.1826. Emma Susannah of 5, Montpelier Street, a minor was married to Augustus James Dixon Belville, a watchmaker of 4, Crosby Road on 17.11.1846. Mr Belville's father was John Henry Belville, gentleman of Montpelier Street.

NOTE:

There is another Winter family not related to the above. This is the family of Norman Winter, either an Englishman or a white South African of English descent. He lived in Galle and was a contemporary of Norman Dagmar Winter. This Norman Winter had 2 young daughters (younger than Anne and Wendy). We got to know of them because the banks used to confuse my father with this Norman Winter.

Sent in by e-mail: Wendy Winter Garcia in Spain winterwendy@hotmail.com

Above family tree data provided by Anne Winter cottesbrooke@aol.com in the UK and Wendy Winter Garcia in Spain, with contributions from the late Dr. Malcolm Jansze in Colombo mjansze@sltnet.lk and Sandy Austin in New Zealand.

Correspondence on the above family during the collection and publishing of the genealogy:-

From: Hans Zijlstra <hzijlstra@yahoo.com
To: Wendy Winter <winterwendy@hotmail.com
Cc: Victor Melder <tormel@dezzanet.net.au; Malcolm Jansze <mjansze@sltnet.lk; Anne Marguerite Williams <cottesbrooke@aol.com; Kyle
Justin Joustra <kj.genealogy@bigpond.com
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Roosmalecocq_&_Maria_Eveline_Winter_(née_White)
 
Dear all,
 
Very interesting to see how a Dokkum based luitenant (and later captain) went out to Ceylon and survived the difficult voyage. As a Vereniging (Association) of 300 
members with an interest in genealogy and regional history of North Eastern Friesland (around the city of Dokkum, also 'famous' for its murder of St. Boniface in 754 A.D.)
we would welcome information that relates back to Dokkum, e.g. specific findings from Roosmale Cocqs testament of 1764 (?).
 
A similar example we have was a family from Dokkum that went to New Amsterdam (New York) of which letters from 1753 are online at  
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~rbillard/hutse_letter.htm
 
If we find more information about Pieter Ambrosius Roosmale Cocq in Dokkum we will let you know. For a map of Dokkum in the 17th century I can refer to  
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/maps/blaeu.html
 
Best regards,
Hans Zijlstra
webmaster 'Vereniging van Archiefonderzoekers te
Dokkum'

http://www.angelfire.com/vt/sneuper

From: Wendy Winter Garcia winterwendy@hotmail.com

To: Hans Zijlstra
Sent:  Friday, May 31, 2002
 
Hans - Thanks for sending the websites.  I printed out the lovely map of Dokkum.  My love of maps must be inherited from my ancestor Johan Schneider of German descent who was a cartographer during the Dutch period in Ceylon. I also downloaded the articles about the history of Dokkum and with the aid of my German dictionary will try and understand as much of it as I can (I' was a member of the Institute of Linguists for 30 years and thoroughly enjoy translating).  Fazli Sameer has just put some photos of my family on his Ceylon Rootsweb site including one of Maria Evelyn White, my great grandmother and daughter of Henrietta Roosmalecocq & Anthony Samuel White.
 
Alas!  We have no documents in our famiily that survive from that time. There may be some in the Ceylon archives or even in Holland itself.  There must be some records of their colonial administration in the mother country and also of the Dutch East India Company (I have a coin the VOC  minted).  I know records survive in Portugal of their colonial period in Ceylon.  As far as the Ceylon Records Office is concerned, my English cousin Adrian Channing tried to get a copy of my grandfather Ally's Will but they refused him a copy.  I will keep in touch and let you know if anything turns up.  
 
My regards, 
Wendy Winter Garcia.
 

From: Wendy Winter Garcia winterwendy@hotmail.com

Rozmccutcheon@lineone.net

gengroup

Roz - I found this information (see below) on one of Fazli Sameer’s websites or one linked to his. I don’t know what connection (if any) this family of Gloucestershire & Ceylon had with Elliott, owner & editor of the "Colombo Observer."

Gengroup - Roz is descended from Christopher Elliott (owner of "The Colombo Observer" & co-editor with George Winter) via her grandmother Winifred Elliott who was his grand daughter. Roz was born in Ireland and lives in London. If anyone turns up any information on Elliott, please forward to Roz and copy to me.

Thanks.

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas.

Regards,

Wendy Winter Garcia – Dec 2002

Ceylon Name List 1800-1900 C-F

Name Relationship Approx Census D-o-B

ELLIOT, Christopher Head 1850 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Catherine M. Dau 1871 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Charles W.B. Son 1876 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Edward C. Son 1874 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Marjorie A. Dau 1879 Ceyl Glou

ELLIOTT, Thomas Head 1850 Ceyl Devo

gengroup

Dear All –

A nice person called Ross Crockett of Perth, Australia found the second marriage of my great great great grandfather James Winter, bricklayer of Clapham to Lydia Alice Creasey and a lot more information. We think Ross is descended from James’s brother John who married Charlotte Salter, who (we are almost sure) is Susannah’s sister. A descendant of Christopher Elliott contacted us too.

Regards,

Wendy

Descendants of Mr. WINTER

Mr. WINTER was born about 1745.

Mr WINTER married Mrs WINTER about 1770. Mrs was born about 1750.

They had the following children:

James WINTER was born about 1771 and died on 13th January 1841.

John WINTER.

Hannah WINTER.

George WINTER was born about 1779 and was buried on 6th October 1848.

Mary WINTER.

Jacob WINTER.

William WINTER marries Sarah KNIGHT on 6th July 1812 in Saint Bride’s Fleet St, London, Eng.

James WINTER was born about 1771. He died on 13th January 1841 in Walworth, London, England and was buried on 21st January 1841 at St. Peter's Walworth, London, England = (1) Susannah, d. of William & Mary Salter in May 1745 at St. Mary-in-Lambeth= (2) Lydia Alice Creasy 22.10.1809, St. Leonard’s, Shoreditch (FHI Film 405103 dated 1908-1812).

Bricklayer of Walworth

Pigot's Directory of 1822/23, bricklayer of 11, Bolingbroke Row, Walworth

Pigot's Directory of 1827, bricklayer of 11, Bolingbroke Row, Walworth

Pigot's Directory of 1838, resident at 10, Montpellier Street (now Pelier St), Walworth

James married (1) Susanna SALTER, daughter of William SALTER and Martha, on 18th May 1795 in St Mary's, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

James and Susanna have the following children:

Charles WINTER was born on 19th December 1796 and was christened on 15th January 1797 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. He died on 26th April 1797 in Clapham, Surrey, England.

George WINTER was born on 18th February 1798 and was christened on 18th March 1798 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. He died on 21st Jan 1853 in Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

John WINTER was born on 23rd November 1800 and was christened on 14th December 1800 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Harriot WINTER was born on 23rd February 1803 and was christened on 23rd March 1803 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

James also married (2) Lydia Alice CRESSEY (CRESSE) on 22nd October 1809 in Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England.

James and Lydia had the following children:

Ann WINTER was born on 5th December 1810 and was christened on 13th January 1811 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England. She died before 1817.

Jane WINTER was born on 16th Aug 1812 and was christened on 27th September 1812 in St Giles, Camberwell, London. She died before 1821.

Lydia WINTER was born on 5th December 1813 and was christened on 13th February 1814 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, England. Lydia married Thomas DAVIES on 8th June 1843.

James WINTER was christened on 7th October 1815 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, England.

Ann WINTER was born on 20th Nov 1817 and was christened on 11th Jan 1818 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, England.

Sarah WINTER was born on 20th Nov 1817 and was christened on 11th January 1818 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, England.

Mary WINTER was christened on 12th September 1819 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, England.

Jane WINTER was christened on 10th June 1821 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, England.

William Cornelius WINTER was born on 15th Jun 1824 and was christened on 3rd December 1824 in Mansion House, Independent Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, England.

John WINTER.

John married Charlotte SALTER, daughter of William SALTER and Martha, on 11th Sep 1797 in St Johns, Wapping, London, England.

They had the following children:

Charles WINTER was born on 19th December 1796 in Clapham, Surrey, England and was christened on 15th Jan 1797 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England and was buried on the 24th April 1797 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Charles WINTER was born on 29th March 1798 and was christened in September 1798 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Elizabeth WINTER was born on 23rd October 1802 and was christened on 23rd November 1802 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Maria WINTER was christened on 1st May 1801 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England. And was buried on 20th December 1801 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. (died of whooping cough)

James WINTER was born on 25th December 1804 in Clapham, Surrey, England and was christened on 20th January 1805 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Maria WINTER was born on 2nd September 1809 and was christened on 15th October 1809 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Mary Ann WINTER was born on 20th December 1806 and was christened on 18th January 1807 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

John WINTER was born on 13th November 1811 and was christened on 15th December 1811 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. He died before 1814.

John WINTER was christened on 23rd November 1814 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Hannah WINTER.

Hannah married William KNIGHT on 5th October 1801 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. William died before 1906. Marriage: Witnesses to the marriage were John & James WINTER.

They had the following children:

William KNIGHT was born on 12th October 1803 and was christened on 19th March 1806 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

George WINTER was born about 1779 and was buried on 6th October 1848 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. Death "The Rookery" in the Parish of Clapham aged 69 years

George married Sarah CARTER on 13th May 1805 in St Brides, Fleet St, London, England. Sarah was born about 1784. She was buried on 8th Mar 1852 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. Death "The Rookery" in the Parish of Clapham aged 68.

George and Sarah had the following children:

Mary WINTER was born on 18th July 1803 in Clapham, Surrey, England. She died before 1805.

Mary WINTER was born on 18th July 1805 and was christened 2 on 7th October 1805 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Hariot WINTER was born on 5th March 1807 and was christened on 24th May 1807 in Lambeth Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Surrey, England and was buried on 26th Aug 1807 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Jemima WINTER was born on 31st July 1808 and was christened on 4th September 1808 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

George WINTER was born on 3rd March 1811 and was christened on 31st March 1811 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Sarah Carter WINTER was born on 9th May 1813 and was christened on 22nd Augugust 1813 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. Sarah married John KING on 16th Octobver 1837 in Saint James, Westminster, London, England.

Thomas Carter WINTER was born on 7th May 1815 and was christened on 11th June 1815 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. He died on 27th August 1815.

Thomas Carter WINTER was born on 3rd August 1816 and was christened on 22nd September 1816 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England. Thomas married Ellen Elizabeth.

Barbara WINTER was born on 15th January 1819 and was christened on 14th February 1819 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Charlotte WINTER was born on 21st March 1822 and was christened on 25th August 1822 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Charles Harris WINTER was born on 22nd July 1824 and was christened on 26th December 1824 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Mary WINTER

Mary married John CHAMBERS on 16 Jun 1805 in Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London, England. They had the following children:

Maria CHAMBERS was born on 5th October 1806 and was christened on 3rd November 1806 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Ann CHAMBERS was born on 20th February 1808 and was christened on 27th March 1808 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

John CHAMBERS was born on 8th December 1809 in Clapham, Surrey, England and was christened on 4th February 1810 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England

Mary CHAMBERS was born on 8th November 1811 and was christened on 8th December 1811 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Sarah CHAMBERS was born on 8th February 1814 and was christened on 3rd April 1814 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Joseph CHAMBERS was born on 7th April 1816 and was christened on 5th May 1816 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Jacob WINTER

Jacob married Susan EVERETT on 28th May 1807 in St Brides, Fleet St, London, England. They had the following children:

Jacob WINTER was born on 8th June 1809 and was christened on 2nd July 1809 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

Abraham WINTER was born on 24th December 1810 and was christened on 25th January 1811 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England; was buried on 26th May 1812 in Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey, England.

Joseph WINTER was born on 10th March 1815 and was christened on 23rd April 1815 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England. Joseph married Ann.

Issac WINTER was born on 26th October 1816 and was christened on 17th Nov 1816 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England. Isaac married Ann BROMLEY on 2nd October 1838 in Saint Mark, Kennington, London, England.

Hannah WINTER was christened on 14th May 1822 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England. She died before 1823.

Hannah WINTER was born on 1st April 1823 and was christened on 4th May 1823 in Stockwell New Chapel Independent, Lambeth, Surrey, England.

[sent by Ross Crockett, of Perth, W. Australia ross_crockett@hotmail.com]

Rajawasala Appuhamilage Don Arthur de Silva Wijesinghe Siriwardena(1) (1888-1949)

Another Winter Family link referring to a Dr Abraham White has been unearthed and submitted for reference and research. It is not known whether the Anthony Samuel White referred to as his son is the same AS White that has been mentioned in the first family tree above.

Notes from Anne Winter Williams in UK:-

Quote:

All this comes from the Sri Lanka website and ours. Malcolm Jansze emailed and seems to include the family of our school mates, Shirley & Marie Whites ancestors with those of the Dr. I gave him the information Christine gave me of the 7 kids of the Dr (Abraham White) and put him right as our 3 family’s have not been connected yet. I have a suspicion that they are because our James Winter was also married at St. Marys Lambeth and both Christine and the Bethnall Green Whites have exact similar names and born a year apart!(George William White was brother of A.S of Bethnall Green and is also a son of Dr White. If our 3 families were all together on the Genealogy Website matters can be seen more clearly. At least we ought to put the Abe White info from Tombstones so folk can see our A.S is not a son of his as is put about. 
Unquote   
 
1  Dr Abraham White, b:1781(?)-1818
               2  Anthony Samuel White of Bethnall Green
               2  George William White

see White Family #1161

From: ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com

To: winterwendy@hotmail.com
 Subject: Christopher Elliot
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:32:13 EST

Dear Wendy,

Thought you might be interested in the following (in Irish Genealogical Research Society Newsletter, came today).

Elliott Letters [contributed by Rosalind McCutcheon]
 

I have recently transcribed a cache of family letters, dated 1834 to 1869, between the Elliott family of Clonmore, Co Kilkenny & their son Christopher &, later, his large family, living in Colombo, Ceylon.  At the time the letters start, the son was en route to Ceylon, and the rest of the family, with mounting financial difficulties, had moved out of Clonmore.

The first letters are all written by Mrs Catherine Rose Elliott, née Blunden.  She had married Edward Elliott in 1792, & had nine children, one of whom, John, had died as a baby.  The first two children, Mary & Isabella, never married.  All six sons enjoyed an extensive education.

Richard, the eldest, became an army Major, serving in the West Indies & Africa; Robert became a clergyman, but died in 1833, aged 35.  Edward (always referred to in the letters as Ned) became a solicitor & John a doctor, both practising in Waterford.  Thomas worked in India as a young man, but returned with health problems; he later started a newspaper in London, entitled "Indian News".  By the late 1840s he came back to farm at Rathkurby, Co Kilkenny, the property bought by Edward & Catherine after the loss of Clonmore.

The youngest child, Christopher, trained as a doctor & took a post in Badulla, Ceylon in 1834.  This was at the height of the family financial troubles, & Lord Duncannon, who had long acquaintance with the family, found the Badulla position for him.  In 1836, Christopher resigned his position & moved to the capital, Colombo.  He later became editor of "The Colombo Observer".

When these letters begin, Catherine was already 67 & was aware that she would probably never see Christopher again; she died in 1840.  Much of the letters contain news of the immediate family & their relations who lived nearby Bowers, Osbornes, Blundens, Briscoes, Haydens & Nicholsons.  I will print only sections of more general interest.

If you want to follow this up, I have Rosalind McCutcheon email address, who
is the editor of the above newsletter: rozmccutcheon@lineone.net

Her full time job is an actress, and is always on the move, her next roll is playing the part of a wardrobe, whatever that involves? 

 

Love

Adrian.

From: "Wendy Winter" <winterwendy@hotmail.com
To: ADRIANCHANNING@aol.com
Cc: COTTESBROOKE@aol.com, rozmccutcheon@lineone.net
Subject: RE: Christopher Elliot
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 19:16:16 +0100

Very interesting, Adrian, thanks - will write to Ross who contacted me before. 

Love,

Wendy

Roz:  Was there anything about George WINTER in Chris. Elliott's letters?  I would love to read them.  Best wishes & a happy Xmas, Wendy Garcia

From: <rozmccutcheon@lineone.net
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 7:37 PM
To: "Wendy Winter" <winterwendy@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Christopher Elliot

Am afraid there was nothing in any of the letters - so sorry!  Most of the letters were written from Kilkenny out to Ceylon.  There's just an exchange of letters between Christopher & his father after the Kandyan rebellion - they are interesting, - but still no mention of George. 

Cheers,

Roz

Omnia vincit veritas

 

House of Lords Journal Volume 62:7th  July 1830 [British History Online].


House of Lords Journal Volume 62, 7th July 1830, Sponsor: History of Parliament Trust, Publication: House of Lords Journal Volume 62, Supporting documents: Pages: Page 841-5


WALBEOFF'S PETITION FOR A DIVORCE BILL
Die Mercurii, 7 Julii 1830: DOMINI tam Spirituales quam Temporales prوsentes fuerunt: Ds. Lyndhurst, Cancellarius, Epus. Carliol., Vicecom. Arbuthnott, Vicecom. Doneraile, Vicecom. Melville, Vicecom. Combermere, Ds. Clifton, Ds. Belhaven & tenton, Ds. Monson, Ds. Boston, Ds. Dynevor, Ds. Walsingham, Ds. Mendip, Ds. Fitz Gibbon, Ds. Carbery, Ds. Dufferin & Claneboye, Ds. Lauderdale, Ds. Wharncliffe, Ds. Tenterden,Comes Rosslyn, C,P,S, March, Lansdowne, March, Bute, March, Camden, Comes Huntingdon, Comes Westmorland, Comes Shaftesbury, Comes Ferrers, Comes Radnor, Comes Hillsborough, Comes Clarendon, Comes Carnarvon, Comes Malmesbury, Comes Charleville, Comes Falmouth, Comes Cawdor, Walbeoff's Petition for a Divorce Bill: A Petition of John Walbeoff Esquire, (of His Majesty's Ceylon Civil Service,) of Colombo, now residing within the said Island of Ceylon, by his Attorney Edward Archer Wilde Esquire, duly authorized by a Special Power of Attorney; setting forth:

"That the Petitioner, on the 19th Day of February in the Year 1817, at Colombo, in the Island of Ceylon, in the East Indies, was lawfully married, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, to Adriana Cornelia van Lynden, Spinster, the daughter of Stephen, Baron van Lynden, now at Colombo aforesaid:

That the Petitioner and the said Adriana Cornelia van Lynden cohabited together as Husband and Wife from the Time of the Solemnization of the said Marriage until the Time therein-after mentioned, and had Issue Five Children.

That the Petitioner's said Wife, the said Adriana Cornelia, did, in the Month of November 1826, quit the said Island of Ceylon for Europe, with her said Children, for the Purpose of placing Four of them at Seminaries in England, for Education; and that the said Adriana Cornelia returned to Ceylon aforesaid on the 1st of August 1829, in the Ship “Elphinstone”.

That the Petitioner, in the said Month of August in the Year 1829, discovered that the said Adriana Cornelia his Wife had entered into and carried on an unlawful Intercourse and Criminal Conversation with John Mitchell, Surgeon of the said Ship “Elphinstone”, a British Subject:

That the Petitioner did, in the said Month of August 1829, bring his Action on the Civil or Plea Side of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Ceylon aforesaid, against the said John Mitchell, to recover Damages for such Adulterous Intercourse and Criminal Conversation with the said Adriana Cornelia as aforesaid, in which Action the said John Mitchell appeared and pleaded.

That the said Action was tried on the 2nd Day of September 1829, when the Sum of One hundred and fifty Pounds was adjudged for Damages to the Petitioner, besides Costs; and that the final Judgment of the Court was delivered in the said Action on the 25th  Day of September 1829.

That on the 5th Day of September 1829 the Petitioner also instituted a Suit on the Ecclesiastical Side of the said Supreme Court of Judicature at Ceylon aforesaid, against the said Adriana Cornelia his Wife, for a Divorce and Separation from Bed and Board and mutual Cohabitation, on account of the aforesaid Adultery, to which she appeared and pleaded; and that on or about the 18th Day of November in the said Year 1829 a Definitive Sentence of Divorce from Bed and Board and mutual Cohabitation was pronounced by the said Ecclesiastical Side of the aforesaid Supreme Court of Judicature, against the said Adriana Cornelia his Wife, for Adultery committed by her with the said John Mitchell.

That the said Adriana Cornelia Walbeoff is now or lately was residing in Ceylon:

That the said Adriana Cornelia hath by her adulterous Behaviour aforesaid dissolved the Bond of Marriage on her Part; and that the Petitioner stands deprived of the Comforts of Matrimony, and may be liable to have a spurious Issue imposed upon him, unless the said Marriage be declared void, and annulled by Authority of Parliament.

That the Petitioner, as well as many of the Witnesses who the Petitioner is advised would be necessary to substantiate the Allegations therein-before contained, which must be alleged in any Bill to dissolve this Marriage, are now resident in the East Indies;"

and therefore praying their Lordships:

"That Leave may be given to bring in a Bill to dissolve his Marriage with the said Adriana Cornelia his Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and that their Lordships will be pleased to direct the Speaker of this House to issue his Warrant or Warrants, to be directed to the Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Island of Ceylon, and to the Recorder of the Presidency of Bombay, for the Examination of the Petitioner, and the Witnesses resident in India, touching the Allegations necessary to support the said Bill, in manner directed by an Act of Parliament passed in the First Year of the Reign of His late Majesty George the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to enable the Examination of Witnesses to be taken in India in support of Bills of Divorce on account of Adultery committed in India;" and that the Petitioner may have such other Relief in the Premises as from the particular Circumstances of the Case this House shall think proper," being offered to be presented to the House. he said Edward Archer Wilde was called in; and having been sworn, produced the said Power of Attorney, dated at Colombo, in the Island of Ceylon, the 31st Day of December 1829, and witnessed by William Norris and Edward George Ebert; and proved the Handwriting of the said William Norris, one of the subscribing Witnesses thereto.  The said Power of Attorney was read by the Clerk as follows; (vizt.)

"To all to whom these Presents shall come, John Walbeoff, of His Majesty's Civil Service on the Island of Ceylon, sends greeting:

Whereas the said John Walbeoff having lately instituted a Suit in the Supreme Court of Judicature on the Island of Ceylon aforesaid, against his Wife Adriana Cornelia, otherwise called Jane Walbeoff, was, by a Decree of the said Court bearing Date the Eighteenth Day of November last, separated from his said Wife a Mensa; et Thoro, by reason of Adultery by her the said Adriana Cornelia, otherwise called Jane Walbeoff, committed. and whereas the said John Walbeoff is desirous of obtaining a Divorce from his said Wife a vinculum matrimonial, and is desirous of nominating some fit and proper Person to act on his Behalf, and to conduct and manage all Matters regarding the same, and generally in all Matters to represent and act for him the said John Walbeoff in and towards obtaining the Object aforesaid, and in taking care of the Children of the said John Walbeoff, begotten upon the Body of the said Adriana Cornelia, otherwise called Jane Walbeoff:

Now know ye, that he the said John Walbeoff hath nominated, constituted and appointed, and by these Presents doth nominate, constitute and appoint Edward Archer Wilde Esquire, of London, Solicitor, his true and lawful Attorney, for him, and in his Name and on his Behalf, to do all that shall be needful and necessary towards obtaining an Act of the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, dissolving the Marriage between him the said John Walbeoff and the said Adriana Cornelia Walbeoff, otherwise called Jane Walbeoff, and enabling the said John Walbeoff to marry again; and for that Purpose, for him and on his Behalf, to appear before all Courts, Judges, Magistrates and other Tribunals; and, in the Name and as the Act and Deed of the said John Walbeoff, to enter into, sign, seal, deliver and execute such Bond or Bonds, or other Deeds or Instruments as the Nature of the Case may require; and to apply to all Courts of Law or Equity, for him the said John Walbeoff, and, on his Behalf, to have the Care and Custody of the Children aforesaid of the said John Walbeoff, begotten upon the Body of the said Adriana Cornelia Walbeoff, otherwise called Jane Walbeoff, and, if need be, to nominate and appoint a temporary Guardian or Guardians for the said Children, and enter into, sign, seal, deliver and execute all Bond or Bonds, Deeds or Instruments whatever that may be needful and necessary; and also, for and in the Name of the said John Walbeoff, to commence and prosecute any Action or Actions, Suit or Suits, or other Proceedings in any Court of Law or Equity, or before any Judge, Magistrate or other Tribunal whatsoever, and the same Action or Actions, Suit or Suits to prosecute and follow, or to discontinue or become no suit therein; and for and on behalf of the said John Walbeoff, and in his Name, all Action or Actions, Suit or Suits, or other Proceedings at Law or in Equity, to defend: And for the better doing, performing and executing of all or any the Matters and Things aforesaid, he the said John Walbeoff doth hereby further give and grant unto the said Edward Archer Wilde, his Attorney, full Power and Authority to constitute and appoint, and in his Place and Stead put, One or more Attorney or Attorneys, and the same again at his Pleasure to revoke, and other or others in his or their Place or Places to substitute, and generally to do all such other Acts, Matters and Things as may be needful and necessary in the Premises; the said John Walbeoff hereby ratifying, allowing and confirming all that shall be done by his Attorney aforesaid, or his Substitute or Substitutes, in and about the Premises, by virtue of these Presents.  In witness whereof the said John Walbeoff hath hereunto set his Hand and Seal, at Colombo aforesaid, this Thirty-first Day of December in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine."

J. Walbeoff." (LS)

"Signed and sealed and delivered in the Presence of: "W. Norris.", E. G. Ebert."

"I, Cecil Arnold Morgan of Colombo, in the Island of Ceylon, acting Notary Public, by lawful Authority duly admitted and sworn, do hereby certify and attest, That the foregoing Letter of Attorney was duly executed in Duplicate by John Walbeoff Esquire, of His Majesty's Civil Service on the Island aforesaid, therein named, in my Presence and in the Presence of William Norris Esquire and Edward George Ebert, both of Colombo, to the due Execution thereof.  An Act being requested, I have granted the same under my Notarial Form and Seal of Office, at Colombo aforesaid, this Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, in testimonium veritatis.  (L. S.) "C. A. Morgan, "Actg Noty Pub."

"I, the undersigned, Chief Secretary to the Government of the Island of Ceylon, do hereby certify and attest unto all to whom it may concern, That Cecil Arnold Morgan Gentleman, of Colombo, who hath signed the foregoing Instrument, is a sworn acting Notary Public residing and practising at Colombo, on the Island of Ceylon, and that to all Acts thus by him signed full Faith and Credit are and ought to be given in Judicature and thereout.  Witness my Hand, at Colombo, this Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.  John Rodney."

Then the said Petition was presented and read. Ordered, That the said Petition do lie on the Table.

After Walbeoff’s death "Temple Trees" was sold to C. R. Buller who helped Emerson Tennant with "Natural History of Ceylon".  ("Temple Trees - the place and its people" -R. Candappa, T. V. Goonetilleke).

 

Elliott sold his house for £2,300 in 1856 to John Philip Green who named it "Temple Trees".

 

"Certain days linger in my memory, as specially delightful, which I spent in the "Temple Trees" bungalow.  "Temple Trees" is the name given to the Plumiers ("Plumeria rubra" also called frangipani) of which the beautiful fragrant blossoms are everywhere strewn by the Singhalese in the Buddhist temples, with those of jasmine and the oleander as sacrificial flowers before the images of the Buddha.  Two old and splendid specimens of Plumiers stand (only one remains today), with a few casuarinas, on the grass plot which divided the villa named after them from the Galle Road, in Kolpetty." ("A Visit to Ceylon" - Ernest Haeckel).

 

Elliott and Winter were co-editors of the "Ceylon Observer" (first issue Tuesday 4.4.1834).  The newspaper's carrier pigeons travelled regularly between Galle, the mail port and Colombo until 1857 when telegraph was installed.

 

In 1835 George Winter sailed in the "Africa" (the Master of which was J. Skelton), in the company of Mr & Mrs Walker and their two children, R. Jeffrey Esq., and Mr Adamson to Galle.  He lived there for 14 years and is called a merchant of Point de Galle on the baptismal certificate of his son Alfred Octavius.  The house he lived does not seem exist any longer.  When his grandson, Rev. Charles Henry Winter visited Ceylon in the 1950s he could not find it but wrote a description of it in his memoirs "After the Lapse of 70 years".

 

In 1849 George Winter bought from an indigo merchant Mr Henley, a plantation on the Gindura river at Baddegama about 12 miles from Point de Galle which was then the main port of call on the route to the Far East where young East India Company marines arrived on every Company sailing ship.

 

George Winter was a pioneer sugar planter in Ceylon.

 

"The Dutch introduced sugar into this island and Sir Edward Barnes experimented in its cultivation near Veyangoda and in 1840 it was seriously worked by the late Mr George Winter, who may be considered the pioneer of sugar in Ceylon.  According to Bertolucci, the cultivation of sugar cane was attempted twice upon an extensive scale, on the same spot near Kalutara but on both occasions it proved un-remunerative.  Sir Edward Barnes's experiment came later and was followed by Mr Winter and other planters." (p. 372 "The Vegetable Products of Ceylon" - F. Lewis).

 

"Baddegama is 12 miles from Galle on the Gintota river.  It is 7 miles from Hikkaduwa railway station to Halpatota Ferry which is three quarters of a mile from the Baddegama resthouse.  It was at Baddegama that George Winter established the only sugar estate in Ceylon that has lasted.  The church at Baddegama was consecrated by Bishop Heber on September 25th, 1825, which event is commemorated by a tablet in the church." ("Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon" - J. Penrhyn Lewis).

 

George imported machinery and erected a factory at "Sunny Side" on the banks of the Gindura river where brown sugar was manufactured and after he and his son Edward Winter died, his cousin Haverstock Hodsell Bowman took charge buying more modern machinery building a second factory on Baddegama Estate where refined sugar was produced.  The price of sugar dropped from Rs 2 in 1881 to in half that price in 1910.  Sugar no longer being profitable the land was planted with tea and rubber.

 

George Winter may have been involved in providing rare plants or wood for export to Britain.

 

George Winter died at Galle and an inscription on tablet erected in the Dutch Reformed Church, Galle reads: "Sacred to the memory of George Winter Esq., of Baddegama, who departed this life 21st January 1853 aged 55 years."  Four of his sons also died in Ceylon, three being buried at Christchurch, Baddegama, one William Sextus, within the church itself and the other at Galle.

 

George and Sarah had 12 children.

 

Anne Winter Williams 21.9.2001: Closenberg Hotel at Galle was very dear to us when we played on the beach as kids.  It was destroyed and oil storage tanks placed on th the loveliest and safest beach in the south and such an act of eco vandalism was committed when it was closed.  Closenberg was originally a Dutch fortification.  It was bought by an English merchant Marine who was with the East India Company and his Arms lie over the door or so it is thought.  They show the suns rays - however they maybe those of the EIC itself.  I wonder whether the merchant knew my ancestor who took the first Anglican missionaries in his ship to Baddegama nearby where the first Anglican church was built.

 

He was the sugar pioneer, George Winter, a merchant marine also with the EIC who was part owner of the ship 'Vittoria'.  He founded and edited the first independent newspaper in Ceylon, now alas taken over by the State as were his former plantations which belonged to us.  I often played on the ramparts of the Fort and sipped lime juice at the NOH.  Nearby is the Dutch church where George's memorial is.  I attended the Galle Convent.  My ancestor first reached Ceylon in the 1800's and my Dutch and German ancestors before that.  I wanted to establish an environmental charity at our former home near Hikkaduwa but the local M.P is in charge and hands out land like a Rajah for votes.  Due to my ancestor, many local families made good and prospered as did the area.  He provided the local ships which called at Galle with sugar and distilled Citronella oil from lemon grass, a variety is named after my own grandfather who sent it to Kew where it is preserved.

 

Our lovely, peaceful island has been ruined.  Hikkaduwa, completely spoilt.  I am afraid that tourism destroys much as well as corrupt politicians.  There is no justice in Lanka anymore and it saddens me when I return to our once lovely Closenberg as I did in 1994/5 and I am sorry you will never know just how wonderful the area was.  Koggala was also lovely and one could swim safely and observe the coral as we did at Hikkaduwa.  I wonder if you have visited any of these places?  If I find the brochure I got from the Hotel I will send you a copy.

 

Wendy Winter Garcia & Anne Winter Williams website: Pillagoda Plantations: “The Golden Falcon” Email: cottesbrooke@aol.com & winterwendy@hotmail.com, See also PHOTO ALBUM

Hello Fazli,

 

When you can find some time in your busy life dear Malli,

 

There are some errors on the family list;

 

1. Our ancestor who was father of the pioneering George is only named as JAMES Winter on his burial details and on his marriage registration to Susannah Salter. I thought this is important for other researchers to know and the family too. Even in the Pigots Directory he is named only as James Winter. There was another builder on the south bank which was found by another researcher and he was known as James something? Winter but Wendy researched and told me the dates did not fit for our James. Our James has only the ONE name which is a pity but that is the case.

 

2. There is also the Email alluded to from Ross Crockett when he first contacted me and Wendy has stated that he is the descendant of JOHN Winter. This is incorrect as he is descended from George Winter who was a builder in the Clapham area and who we think may be related to our James.

 

I got to know this cos I sent him all my info which I had personally collected over the years and even located him in the 1841 Census and wrote down even his children's marriages and their kids which Ross was grateful for. I was the dogs-body that spent hours over many years in the Mormon centre in Tilehurst.

 

I have pages and pages of parish register info. and used to go up to London and get  stuck in rush hour tubes when we returned from the old GLC  records office. Wendy could not do this as she was in Spain form 1988 and Peter used to drive me down to London on his days off.

 

Just looked up my stuff as I knew that one of James children was missing from his 2nd marriage. on the list. She was Emma Susannah Winter who was baptised at St Peters Walworth on 20.5.1827. I dont know why Wendy did not give you our own records as she seems to have put on all the stuff Ross sent her instead which she could have added on. I also recall that I found their marriages with addresses in Montpelier St. where James lived and will look thru' the volumes to see if she has included them.

 

Also in this section there is a list of children of James and Lydia which is incorrect and from hr Email about Ross who found the marriage of Lydia a week after I had looked up the Mormon Index and paid someone to find when it was not there!!

 

Hope you are well dear Malli

 

Anne Winter Williams

UK

2007

Australian Sailor Awarded Prestigious Solomon Islands Medal

23 October 2009

 

 

The Australian High Commissioner for Solomon Islands, HE Mr Frank Ingruber, WO Mike Winter and Mrs Dawn Winter.

Warrant Officer Michael Winter is a Navy Physical Training Instructor working at the Australian High Commission in the Solomon Islands and this week he had the unusual honour of being awarded the Solomon Islands Medal (Silver) for his "dedicated & voluntary commitment in the development of sports in Solomon Islands and to other charitable services."

 

WO Winter played an active role in initiating fitness programs and equipped the only gymnasium in Honiara with modern fitness equipment. Warrant Officer Winter conducted fitness classes and as a result there are now 60 women attending classes. He has also recruited the services of other expatriates living in the Solomon Islands to assist with fitness classes, in a voluntary capacity.

"To be awarded the Solomon Islands Medal (Silver) gives me the satisfaction and joy of knowing that I have been recognized by a foreign country for my contribution in the field of sport in another land. For this I am a proud Australian and a very proud member of the RAN, as I learned my trade as a serving member of the RAN", said Warrant Officer Winter

 

Warrant Officer Winter also provides fitness training to local soccer and netball teams, and was approached by the National soccer coach to be their fitness trainer, a position he unfortunately had to decline due to a lack of spare time - hardly surprising with all of his volunteer work!

 

As an active member of the Catholic Church in Honiara, Warrant Officer Winter also assisted the church in raising enough money to send 450 Solomon youths to the World Youth Conference in Sydney in 2008.

 

Warrant Officer Winter has been instrumental in resurrecting the game of Cricket in the Solomon Islands. Once it was a game played every week and enjoyed by the people of the Island before the tension put a stop to it. He captained the Prime Minister's XI this year, and finished 3rd in the competition, which the PM was very pleased about. Especially being a cricket enthusiast himself, he is elated that cricket is back on the sporting agenda.

 

Warrant Officer Winter's posting to the Solomon Islands concludes in November and he will be returning home to Australia to take up a position as the Ship's Warrant Officer of the Patrol Boat Group.

 

Retrieved from http://www.navy.gov.au/Australian_Sailor_Awarded_Prestigious_Solomon_Islands_Medal

00  GUILLAUME DU BOIS + Mme GENEVIEVE CESTAT, Cavalry Officer of l’ancien regime (France)

 

0  Claude Guillaume, Marquis Du Bois de La Saussaye + Antoinette Butel St. Ville

The Marquis held a military command on the island of Guadaloupe where he was an extensive landed proprietor and where, on the breaking out of the great revolution, his family settled down. (France)

 

1  Etienne Guillaume Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay)  d:13-May-1866 in France + Aline du Bois de La Saussaye (cousin)

    2  Jean Pancour du Bois de La Saussaye of Pointe a Pitre, Guadaloupe

 

1  Count du Bois Du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) or Guillaume Joachim was Captain, Luxembourg Regiment + Elizabeth Adriana Weller m:1785, Entered the military service in June 1774as a sub lieutenant in a battalion stationed at St. Anne, Guadelope. He exchanged from this into the regiment de Luxembourg and arrived in Ceylon in 1782


    2  Jean Guillaume du Bois de La Saussaye (de Lassosay) d. 17.5.1820 +  24.11.1811 (1135) + Johanna Anna Susanna van Lynden* (d/o of Stephen Baron van Lynden), appointed as sitting Magistrate of Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka, where he died in July 1820 from an accidental fall. (1136)

        3  Otho Peter Charles du Bois de La Saussaye/de Lassosay (d. 1866) + in 1859, Georgina Adelaide Booy, (d/o Frederick de Booy of the Kachcheri).  He was raised by the Rev. Daniel Gogerly who married Jean’s widow, Johanna Anna Susanna van Lynden.  Otho was the last of the male line in Ceylon.  Ironically the same year saw the last of the de La Saussaye family in France with the death of Jean Pancour.

R. G. Anthonisz wrote in the Ceylon Literary Register (quoted in Lewis “Tombstones and Monuments of Ceylon 1913”):

"There are no doubts a great many people beside those of his own family , who still remember the late Mr Otho de Lassosay.  Left an orphan at five years of age, most of his early years were spent in the house of his stepfather, the Rev Daniel Gogerly, whom his mother the widowed Mrs de Lassosay had married for her second husband.  Here he grew up to manhood, but whatever were the opportunities thrown in his way, it is clear he made little use of them, for we find him struggling to get on in the world.  Of free and easy disposition, sociable and unostentatious, he made friends wherever he went, but he was placed in awkward straits for a living.  At one time he was schoolmaster and post holder of Tangalle, offices from which he could have hardly derived an income suitable to his station in life.  In 1864 he secured the appointment of Registrar of Lands of Tangalle on a salary of £100 a year, but he lived scarcely more than a twelve month to enjoy his promotion, because his health, which had been undermined by a life of freedom as well as of hardship, had been giving way for some time, and he died in the year 1866.  With him ended the male line of the de Lassosay family in Ceylon; but he had married in 1859 at Hambantota Georgina Adelaide Booy, daughter of Frederick de Booy of the Kachcheri, and had a daughter, Anne Maria Adelaide du Bois de Lassosay, who is now living, and is married and has a family” [Ref: Dutch Union Burgher Journal Vol. XXIII, 1934, see also "List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon" - John Penry Lewis].

 NOTE: About the Van der Poortens sent by email by Anne Winter Williams in the UK (2015)


 The portion on the Van der Poortens  in The Family trees says they Maybe Jewish in origin. ?? However all those researched by Phillipe VDP of Belgium were baptised  in Christian churches??

 

 ONE branch in Holland/Netherlands appears to have been JEWISH  as we have a Moses Van der Poorten born ABT 1741 and died in 1819 in Maarse in Netherlands Also Salomon Moses Levy VDP born 1st June 1788. Some of Moses  other ancestors were Polish  (Polak) Whether he acquired the name VDP or assumed it as many Jews did in Europe  is unknown Over in Ewelme & Benson we have the very common English name Smith assumed by some Jewish folk. 

 

There appear to have been Christian Van der Poortens in the Netherlands in Leiden ( Where our ancestor Henricus Leembuggen hailed from too)

 

The very earliest VDP baptised in a church I can find   is :(A)  Boudwijn VDP baptised  1687 in Leiden ,Netherlands son of Willem Jansen Van der Poorten & Jannetie Maertens van Dijke

 

(B)  Anna VDP baptised Jan 19th 1690  in Leiden dau. of Willem Jansen Van der Poorten & Janettie van Dilke who appears to be sibling of Boudwijn above 

 

(C) Josua VDP born 13th June 1710 & baptised 19th June 1710 son of Phillipe Van der Poorten & Anne Louyse Teute

 

 

 

From Anne Winter in the UK on Tue Sep 7 2021

This is the house that Edmund not Jack built. He founded the Plantation it was on which he patriotically named "St George" Estate..He did so with the savings he made while working on other plantations. He also worked as a Tea maker on Baddegama Estate under his cousin,Edward Bowman which had been the original Sugar plantation of his Grandfather, George,Winter, who brought those first Anglican MIssionaries to Lanka. Grandpa Edmund, walked to Galagedera from Kandy with his Pakis Pettiya/Trunk and would tell us where he stopped for water! He did so as his Mother told him his plans to have a Dairy would not amount to much,!! Rome was not built in a day" Those standing are his daughters and their husbands. Grandpa is behind them on the right. He insisted that he should be buried below the house with his wife Menike. His eldest son, Ernest is also buried there. Ernest & his brother ,George helped him when he 'opened' up Labugolla Estate in Rubber in the Kegalle District It was truly a Family home where we gathered together for Xmas, and sang around a Pianola. It rang with the sound of Childish laughter when, grandchildren and their spouses came to stay. Later even great grandchildren visited to eat the forbidden fruit off the 'legendary Jumbo(Jambu) tree which fellDescription: Description: Description: 😁. During good times and bad times, that house was a shelter for some. My sister, Wendy was born there. I guess some of my Aunts were also. Alas, only the lower half remains and brings to mind Colombo 7 and the sands of time have shifted.

 

Anne Saturninus responds

My wonderful childhood home with my mum Dorothy (grandpa & granny's 10th offspring). Together with my 3 siblings, brought back from war torn Yorkshire where I was born in 1944. The most magnanimous of humans, were our grandparents, Edmund & Menike. Such sweet, happy memories of childhood, so blessed to be back in retirement on the Island I've always called 'Home'. Love Description: Description: Description: 💖 Anne

 

Anne Winter in Aug 2021 wrote

George Winter, our pioneering g gt Grandpa was baptised by the Rev. John Venn who preached at Holy Trinity church Clapham on which there is a tablet re: the preaching of Christianity to Heathens. The Rev was one of the Clapham sect with Wm Wilberforce who were striving for the Abolition of Slavery and was founder of the Anglican Church Missionary Society which encouraged and sent missionaries to go to the Colonies to preach and convert. James, Winter, father of George and his family in Clapham listened to his sermons which were very popular and attended the Holy Trinity church there so it was George who co owned the ship 'Vittoria' with James Bowman, who took the Rev. Robert Mayor and others to SL and Point de Galle, in 1818 but landing in 1819 as it took 200 days to travel.The Rev Mayor was to serve there in Galle town but left after 4 months thinking that Baddegama would be better. He sailed up the Gindura river Gin Ganga apparently with George who noticed some land which could be suitable for Sugar planting and Mayor noticed the hill above the river he thought suitable for an Anglican Church and school as there were no churches as such in Lanka at the time but only Missionary Stations. A Mudaliyar in that area was very keen to learn about the various medications used by the British for certain illnesses and other modern methods. These are Mayor's own words of 1818 "The Mudaliyar is desirous that I should reside there and.offers to raise subscriptions for erection of a Church & school' To build a church there was not easy as rocks had to be blown apart and broken and none seemed willing to assist so the Rev. apparently used something to attract attention and scattered some coins around which did interest. I believe the latter are in Mayor,s letters. So the church was built using Sinhala architectural designs, pillars etc In 1819 an English Rev preached his sermon in Sinhala. Hymns composed in Sinhala and there were No Pews as locals preferred to sit on mats instead. Bishop Heber came from India to consecrate in 1825 and called it "a pretty church in the most wildest and most beautiful situations I ever saw and I agree wholeheartedly. "and erected in the interior for sole benefit of the Sinhalese.. They soon forgot the views when bitten by Leeches apparently Rev. Heber wrote the Hymn re: Lanka with the words " Ceylon's Isle where every prospect pleases and only man if vile"and got into hot water but what he stated is the same all over much of the World what with the doctrine of original sin. There is a verandah also on the side where the cemetery is which was built later ,I was told.. If one walks along it and looks down there is a memorial to a little Bowman cousin who died young and is interred beneath it. The very popular Rev. Lakdasa de Mel I was told also studied and gave sermons I have read. Trinity College was not originally called thus. If you'd like to read more it is in book written by Rev. Baldy r: CMS in Ceylon 1819-1938The Baptists and Wesleyans were in SL before all this and my ancestor, Gualterus?Walter Schnieder , who was Chief Surveyor of Ceylon built a Methodist church in C'bo which still survives.