Philip Bint's son James was born in 1832 at Eaton. On the 1851 census he is recorded as one of three farm labourers working on Henry Toovey's 80 acre Eaton farm.

He married Eaton girl Harriet Ann Barnett (1834-1903) at Headington, Oxford in January 1861. Harriet already had one child born out of wedlock, Edward Charles William Barnett (born 1855) who after their marriage took his step-father's surname. Linda has pointed out that the first twins, William and Henry were also born out of wedlock at St. Ebbes on the 21st of August 1860, though James is named as the father. She also mentions that their surname was wrongly recorded as 'Bent' on both the registration and baptism.

The couple settled in the St Ebbes area of Oxford and remained there for the rest of their lives, spending at least 40 years at Blackfriars Road.

They had seven more children. 

William and Henry in 1860, 

Walter Henry in 1863

Herbert Willis and Fanny Eliza in 1865 

Frank in 1869

Louisa Annie in 1872. 

The first twins William and Henry both tragically died before reaching their second birthday, William on the 22nd of March 1862 and Henry on the 30th of May at St Ebbes, Oxford.

James Bint was employed as a labourer for most of his life though the 1901 census describes his occupation as a 'faggot maker'. His wife Harriet  gave her occupation as 'laundress'     A faggot maker in Victorian times was usually employed producing bundles of firewood.

James died at Gloucestershire in 1905. He was probably living with his son Walter after Harriet died at St Ebbes in 1903.

Walter Henry Bint  (1863-1928) married Alice Davis (1862) at Oxford in 1886. She was from Bran Green, Newent in Gloucestershire. After their marriage the couple moved to the city of Gloucester. They had eight children, Edith was born at Oxford and the other seven at Gloucester. On his daughter Beatrice's marriage certificate to 22 year old painter Robert Jackson at Huntley, Gloucestershire in 1915, Walter's occupation was given as a "GWR  plate-layer" and his residence as Longhope. He died at Leeds, Yorkshire in 1928. (his son Ralph had settled there).

Edith Bint 1886

Elsie Bint  1888

Florence Bint 1891

Beatrice Alice 1893

Clara Lucy 1896

Ralph Horace Bint 1898

Alexander Sidney Bint 1901

Stanley Lionel Bint 1905

Their son Ralph Bint (1898-1966)  enlisted in the army at Gloucester in 1916. He married Gladys M Housley (1904) at Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1925.  Their son Leonard Bint was born in the Leeds area in 1928.

At least three of Walter's daughters stayed in the Gloucester area and were married to locals.

Walter's brother, Frank Bint (1869-1946) married Oxford born Edith Bessie White (1869-1916) at Oxford in 1890. He was a painter and decorator. Four of their five children were born at Oxford. He died at Oxford in 1946 aged 77.

Ivy Bint 1891

Stanley Theodore Bint 1895

Vera Ruby Bint 1897

Frances Bint 1903

Herbert Vivian Bint (1906-1991) was born at Merthyr Tyfil, South Wales. He married Oxford born Kathleen Shepheard (1906) at Oxford in 1937.

Frank's sister Louisa Annie Bint (1872) married Thomas East (1870) at Holy Trinity Oxford in 1891. He was a cricket ball maker and they lived at 43 Friar's Wharf, St Ebbes. By 1901 the family had moved to Clapton, London. Their first two children were born in Oxford and the other seven in Clapton.

Frank's brother Herbert Willis Bint (1865) appears to have remained single. On the 1881 census his occupation is 'painter', 1891 college labourer and 1901 a college servant.

 (The border village of Lamberhurst was recorded as in Sussex on the 1891 census and Kent in 1901. The line of the county border was adjusted following the Local Government Act 1894, which required that parish boundaries be aligned with counties)

Lamberhurst, Kent  by Charles Essenhigh Corke  around 1900

Edward Charles William Bint was born at Eaton in 1855. When he was 16 his occupation was listed as 'chemist's apprentice'. He  married Long Combe born Minnie Busby (1858) at Oxford's Methodist Free Church in 1878. She was the daughter of a St Giles, Oxford stonemason, George Busby (1821), who was also born at Long Combe in Oxfordshire.

Edward and Minnie opened a refreshment house at nearby Eynsham around 1880 in partnership with his 18 year old brother Walter Henry Bint, now calling himself Henry on the 1881 census return.

The couple had moved back to Oxford by 1891 and for a number of years had a coffee house and restaurant at 77 George Street, West Oxford (now Nando's). They were listed there in 1895-96 but by the time of the 1901 census they had moved to a restaurant at the nearby Corn Exchange Buildings.

By 1911, 55 year old Edward was employed as a clerk by the Gas Company and living at Adelaide Street, Headington. He and Minnie both died in 1937.

The restaurant today at 77-79 George Street.

Edward and Minnie had 6  children. All born at Oxford.

William Ewart Bint - 1880

Frank Hubert Bint  - 1885

Bertha Bint - 1888

Harold Bint - 1890

Albert Reginald Bint -  1893-95

Bertie Clarence Bint - 1897

Ralph Bint  -  1900

Frank Hubert Edward Bint (1885-1964) was a printer by trade. He married Oxford born shop assistant Louisa Harriet Clark (1882-1946) at Headington in 1913. They had one child, Lilian Alice Bint (1916-1994) who followed her father into the printing business.

Bertha Florence Bint (1888) was unmarried and employed as a nurse. Some of her life was spent in the Southampton area. She died at Bournemouth in 1947.

Harold  Edwin Bint (1890-1960) married Oxford born Ellen Eliza May (1892-1959) at St Pauls, Oxford in 1919. Harold was employed as a butler. They had two children, both born at Oxford, Margaret J Bint (1923) and Marion Bint (1926).

Albert Reginald Bint was born at Oxford in May 1893. Baptised on the 25th of June at the Paradise Square Methodist Church and was only 19 months old  when he died in January 1895. His burial was at St. Sepulchre's Cemetery.

Bertie Clarence Bint (1897- 1979) was also baptised at the Paradise Square Methodist Church. He  married Annie Iona Clarke (1893-1980) at Oxford in 1920. They had two sons, Roy C.R Bint (1921-2008)  and  Dennis Edward John Bint  (1923-1943). (see bottom of page).

Ralph Bint (1900-1957) married Oxford born Evelyn Talboys (1904-1988) at Oxford in 1925. His occupation is given on Ancestry as 'tennis umpire'.   I quote the Lytham St. Annes-on-Sea Lawn Tennis Club web-site from their history section...      "Mr Ralph Bint, a member of the St Annes and Marton clubs won the Lancashire Singles in 1950.  He was an umpire and a good administrator but, sadly, died in 1957 playing the game he loved. His widow provided the Ralph Bint Trophy in his memory."    

That club had been responsible for the annual Open Tournament which had been a popular feature of Lawn Tennis in the North West since its inception in 1932. It became the mini-Wimbledon of the North.  Many famous players such as Fred Perry, `Bunny’ Austin, Dorothy Round, Kay Stammers, G.P. Hughes and Angela Mortimer appeared in exhibition Matches over the years.                  

Ralph and Evelyn had one son.

He was Peter Ralph Bint (1926-2004) who married Derby born Vivienne Hore (1931) at Yeovil in 1952. He  was born at Oxford and baptised in the Paradise Square Weslyan Church, Oxford in 1926.  They had three children, David John Bint (1955), Ralph Bint (1958), and Robert (1962).

William Ewart Bint was born at Oxford in 1880. He appears on the 1901 census with his occupation as boat builder. He married Edith Lavinia Prickett at Oxford in 1903. She was the daughter of Wootton, Oxford carpenter and joiner John Alexander Prickett (1850). Her brother William Alexander Prickett (1871) was also a boat builder. He had married Derby born dressmaker Alice Tyrrell (1876) at Oxford in 1902. 

William Bint and William Prickett with their families moved to the yachting centre of Burnham-on-Crouch. Essex. Alexander Walpole Prickett was born there in 1902. His sister Winifred Prickett in 1905, and their cousin Edith Minnie Bint in 1905.

By 1909 both families had moved to another yachting area, Cowes on the Isle of Wight . Phyllis Ruby Bint was born there in 1909, Mabel Marion Bint in 1910, Harold William Prickett in 1912 and William Edward Bint in 1913. 

The Prickett family settled at Cowes, William dying there in 1962. His son Alexander Walpole Prickett (1902-1976) also remained on the island and became an aircraft designer with the Westland Air Corporation. He helped develop the hovercraft and was credited with at least two patents for the design of a skirt assembly.    see     Hovercraft patents.

The introduction of the flexible hovercraft skirt was a crucial engineering breakthrough. The skirtless SR.N.1 of 1959 could only operate on calm seas at low speeds. After the SR.N1 was fitted with a 4-foot flexible skirt in 1962, it could cope comfortably with 6-7-foot waves, cross marshland with gullies up to 4 feet deep and clear obstacles over 3 feet high. In addition, the SR.N1 could now operate at twice its original weight with no increase in lift power. Just one decade after the introduction of Cockerell's hovercraft, its descendents, fifty times heavier and three times as fast, would ferry a third of all passengers and cars across the English Channel for some thirty years' duration.

By the 1920s William Ewart Bint and his family were now back in Oxford where he was employed as a boat-builder for Salter's Boatyard at Folly Bridge in Oxford. He died at Oxford in 1957 and his wife Edith at Abingdon in 1967.    His son William Edward Bint (1913-1972) was also a boat-builder.. see    Salters History        

 

William & Edith's children were: 

 

Edith Minnie Bint 1905 – 1984

Florence Bint  1907 – 1907

Phyllis Ruby Bint  1909 – 2005

Mabel Marion Bint  1910 – 1989

William Edward Bint  1913 – 1972

William Ewart Bint 1880-1957

Edith Lavinia Prickett1881-1967

Edith Minnie Bint 1905-1984

Phyllis Ruby Bint 1909-2005

William Edward Bint 1913-1972

Family researcher Linda King is the daughter of Phyllis Bint (1909-2005) above who married Londoner Harry Adkins (1904-2005) at Radley, Berkshire in 1930.     Phyllis's brother William Edward Bint (Ted)  also went on to be a boat-builder.

East Cowes around 1910

The launch of a lifeboat from Salter's boatyard, Folly Bridge, Oxford in 1900

William's brother, Bertie Clarence Bint (1897-1979), was a linotype operator. An American invention, the first linotype machine printed the New York Tribune in 1886. It had revolutionised printing and especially newspaper publishing, making it possible for a relatively small number of operators to set type for many pages on a daily basis. The first British newspaper to use this composing machine was the Newcastle Chronicle in 1889 and by 1893 there were more than 250 throughout the UK.

Bertie married Annie Iona Clarke (1893-1980) at Oxford in 1920. They had two sons, Roy C.R Bint (1921-2008)  and  Dennis Edward John Bint  (1923-1943). 

Bertie's son Roy Charles Reginald Bint (1921-2008), another printer, married Kennington born Ruth Broomfield (1927) in 1947. They had two children, both born in Oxfordshire, Stephanie (1955) and Graham (1959).

Mursley water tower is a local landmark, which was built by the Buckinghamshire Water Board in 1938. It services north and central parts of the county. 

On 11th. April, 1943, at 00:15hrs a crew of 4 men was sadly killed when a Wellington, BJ879, which was doing training circuits and landings and hit the side of the tower and exploded. 

Dennis Edward John Bint  DFM born March 1923 in Warwick Street, Oxford. His parents were Bertie and Annie Bint. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in 1940 aged 17. His service number was 124612. Having qualified as Pilot he would often be seen flying low level over his parents home who would wave at him with tea towels from the garden! He flew 30 missions over Europe between Sept 1941 and June 1942 for which together with his gallantry while flying was warded the Distinguished Flying Medal. He was then trained as a flying instructor. 

He was killed whilst flying at 00.15hrs 11 April 1943. On approach in to RAF Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire his Wellington bomber crashed in to the water tower at Mursley. He and his crew are commemorated at the site on a Memorial Plaque. 

Dennis was later cremated at Oxford Crematorium. He is remembered in the Garden of Rest on a Green Slate Plaque together with the names of 46 other members of the military who were killed and then cremated at Oxford Crematorium.   Nigel Robinson.

Dennis Bint wearing his DFM ribbon

Flt Sgt Dennis Bint DFM Citation

'This captain of aircraft has always attacked with determination and courage.  On one occasion, when his port engine was hit and ceased to function, by exercising superb skill he returned and landed safely at base.  Flt Sgt Bint has displayed great courage when in action, which is the admiration of all ranks in the squadron.  His example has inspired a high standard of morale in his crew.'

London Gazette 11 August 1942

My thanks to Geoff Mann and his friend Steve Bond for tracking this down.

The conditions were very foggy and the Wellington had tried twice to land, each time making a dangerous and low approach to Little Horwood airfield. On the third attempt it was given permission to land. The pilot made a similar approach but suddenly there was a blinding flash in the sky followed by an explosion. The aircraft had hit the water tower at Mursley and all the crew were killed.

The unfortunate airmen were:-
P/O DEJ Bint- Pilot - of Oxford.
SGT FB McHugh -Pilot- of Dudley.
SGT JLL Belanger-RCAF- A/G - of Canada.
SGT C.T Fox - WOP/A/G - of Lincoln.

The crash blackened the exterior of the tower and distorted some of the large pipes. Repairs were swiftly made and the tower was back working within a week. Yet not until a renovation of the tower in 1968 were the wartime scars removed. In 1995 Anglian Water, which owns the tower, decided to open it to the public for half a day and they also set about providing a memorial plaque. Two families and ten relatives of the aircrew were contacted and 1,000 local people attended the memorial service, during which a plaque to honour the 4 airmen, who were killed, was uncovered.

                               Dennis's pictures from Nigel Robinson's collection.