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The Bint Family of New Zealand

	Descendants of the Berkshire Bints				Philip Bint's Berkshire Family
	THE NEW ZEALAND BINT FAMILY THE ALLMANS THE VOYAGE CHARLOTTE'S ALBUM AN 1898 LETTER FROM HOME GEORGE BINT PHILIP BINT & ELIZA DAY EDWARD HAYWARD & CHARLOTTE BINT WALTER & LILLIAN BINT SYDNEY SMITH & CATHERINE BINT JAMES BINT & ELLEN STRATFORD LESTER & ROSA BINT WILLIAM & ROSE BERTHA BINT COUSIN ARTHUR SOANES & 1880s TARATA THE RAWLINSONS IRENE HANNAM'S LETTERS LORNA SMITH'S STORY TARANAKI MIGRANTS
					Shinfield Church around 1900
					Philip Bint (1812) was the son of Shinfield born Thomas Bint (1769-1840) and Sarah Appleton (1774-1826) who were married at Shinfield in June 1796. Thomas and Sarah had nine children all born at Shinfield. They were John Bint (1797-1811), Mary Ann (1802), Hannah (1804), Maria (1806), Thomas (1808-08), Sarah (1809), Philip (1812), Ann (1815), and James (1818-1819). Philip, the only son to reach adulthood, was named after his grandfather Philip Appleton who was born at Shinfield in 1747. His mother Sarah died when he was only 14 years old.

	At Arborfield Cross six roads meet, of which one runs north to join the Reading road, a second leads west across the River Loddon to Shinfield, a third goes south-west to Swallowfield, a fourth south to Finchampstead, a fifth south-east to Barkham, and the sixth is a grass lane which runs by a winding course to East Heath. The nearest railway station is Sindlesham Halt. A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 3 1923

	Philip's sister Hannah Bint (1804-1885) married local farm labourer George Burrett (1804-1895) at Arborfield in 1828. George became one of the earliest school-masters at Arborfield in the 1840s and at some point Hannah joined him as the school mistress. They had seven children, all born at Arborfield. They were Martha Burrett (1829-56), Thomas (1833), Hannah (1834), John (1837), Henry (1840), Ann (1844) and James (1846). On the 1861 census the family had moved to nearby Swallowfield schoolhouse where they remained as schoolmaster and schoolmistress until his retirement in the 1870s. Hannah died in 1885. The 1891 census records widower George living at Rose Farm cottages close to the George and Dragon inn at Swallowfield with his unmarried daughter Ann Burrett. He died there in 1895.
			The second Arborfield School built in 1871. The schoolhouse is on its right.

	Swallowfield around 1900

Another of Philip's sisters, Ann Bint (1802), also known as Mary Ann, married widower John Hannington(1793-1854) at Arborfield in 1828. Their daughter, dressmaker Mary Ann Hannington (1828), married bricklayer Charles Houlton (1830-1897) at Wokingham in 1853. They had no children. Another daughter Emma Hannington (1844) had two children out of wedlock, William Hannington (1867) and Frederick Hannington (1871-73) and was staying with the Houltons in 1871.

Emma married Dorset born George Hardy (1831) at Wokingham in 1880 and the couple moved to Chelmsford in Essex to run a pub called The Dolphin. Her son, brick-layer William Hannington (1867), remained with the Houltons at Peach Street, Wokingham after his mother's marriage.

William and his wife Sophia were living at nearby Whitley with their two children Alice (4) and Kate (2) in 1891.

Market Day at Wokingham

Wokingham was once famous for its bull-baiting. In 1661 George Staverton left a bequest in his will giving two bulls to be tethered in the Market Place and baited by dogs on St Thomas' Day (21 December) each year. The bulls were paraded around the town a day or two before the event and then locked in the yard of the original Rose Inn , half of which is visible on the extreme right of this photograph. People travelled from miles around to see the dangerous spectacle. A number of dogs would be maimed or killed during the event and the bulls were eventually destroyed. The meat and leather were distributed amongst the poor people of the town. Some of the spectators also sustained fatal injuries.

In 1794 on the morning after the bull-baiting Elizabeth North was found dead and covered with bruises. In 1808 55-year-old Martha May died after being hurt by fighters in the crowd. The cruel 'sport' was prohibited by the Corporation in 1821 but bulls were still provided at Christmas and the meat distributed to the poor.

Bull-baiting was banned by Act of Parliament in 1833.

tom.bint@tiscali.co.uk

Philip Bint's Berkshire Family