Thomas Winter

c1793-1851

Thomas was baptised on the 23^rd January 1793, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury, Berkshire, the son of Jerry (Jeremiah) and Ann Winter (nee Paine) who were married on the 30^th October 1790, at St Mary, Thatcham, Berkshire. (Jeremiah was from Newbury and Ann was from Greenham)

Jeremiah was born c1766, he died aged 37 in 1803 and was buried on the 7^th September, at St Mary, Greenham.

Ann was baptised in 1770 in Greenham, the daughter of Charles and Esther Paine, she died aged 77 in 1848 and was buried on the 4^th March at St Nicolas Newbury.

Jeremiah and Ann also had the following children baptised at St Nicolas, Newbury:

Joseph, 13^th February 1791 (died aged 25, buried 28^th March 1817, at St Nicolas Newbury)

Mary, 1^st April 1795

Eliza, born 11^th August 1798, baptised 2^nd September 1798

Wiilliam, born 24^th February 1801, baptised 18^th March 1801 (died aged 23, buried 27^th June 1817, at St Nicolas, Newbury)

Ann remarried on the 22^nd September 1806 at St Mary, Thatcham. Her 2^nd husband was widower, John Rawlins (both were from Greenham)

(John Rawlins 1^st wife was Elizabeth Brown, they married on the 10^th October 1785, at St Nicolas Church Newbury. They had the following children, John, c1786, Mary c1795 and Joseph c1800. Elizabeth died aged 37 in 1803)

The 1815 census of Newbury records Thomas (22) living in the City, Newbury, with his stepfather John Rawlins (50), a Horse Keeper, his mother Ann Rawlins (45), his stepbrother Joseph Rawlins (14), his half-sister Sarah Rawlins (8), his sister Eliza Winter (17) and his brothers, Joseph Winter (24) and William Winter (14).

Thomas was a widower by 1851 (wife unknown). The census for this year records him as a Bargeman, aged 59, in the Newbury Workhouse.

Thomas died aged 57 in 1851. He was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 16^th April.

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