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THE SHINFIELD-ARBORFIELD-WOKINGHAM BINT FAMILY |
William Bint from Shinfield, Berkshire, who married Hannah Clark in 1800, fathered the nearby Arborfield, Berkshire family. William was the son of John Bint and Mary Critcher who were married at Shinfield in 1752.
In 1841 William Bint (1772) born Shinfield, agricultural labourer, and Hannah (1774) were living at nearby Pudding Lane Cottage, Arborfield. They had produced 7 children. James 1800, Mary 1803, Thomas 1805, John 1808, William 1812, Dinah 1811, and Pheobe 1816. William died at Arborfield in 1842 and Hannah in 1843. There are no longer any houses in Pudding Lane. The area is now covered by the Pudding Lane Nursery complex.
One of William's sons, William Bint (1812-1897) moved to Sunninghill, a few miles from Ascot racecourse, where he married Ann Arter (1814-1886) in 1838.
After the arrival of the railway with it's fast connection to London in the 1840's, the population rapidly expanded, and Sunningdale, a part of Sunninghill and Windsor, became a parish. Today it's more known for an international golf course, expensive mansions, and proximity to Ascot, Windsor Castle, and Wentworth Golf Club.
William was from a family of agricultural labourers, and went to work at Sunningdale's Coworth Park, a large local estate, as a farm labourer. He later became farm bailiff and remained at Coworth until his retirement. (See Sunningdale Bint Family)
Another of William's sons James Bint (1800) remained in Arborfield. He married Hannah Burrett (born Colchester (1810) there in 1831. They had six children all born at Arborfield. John Bint (1832), James (1835), Hannah (1840), Moses (1843), Ellen (1845), and Mary (1848). In 1841 the family lived at Bridge House.
His son John Bint (1832) became a policeman. Married to Ely, Cambridgeshire girl Mary Cooper (1834) at Shoreditch, London in 1856, he was at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire in 1861. Mary unfortunately died in 1868. The 1871 census records him nearer home at Bisham near Marlow, Buckinghamshire now a widower with 3 children, John A Bint (1863), Frederick (1864) and Ellen (1865). In 1881 he was still a policeman living at Forest Gate Cottage in Windsor Great Park not far from Coworth where his Sunningdale cousins lived. The 1891 census records him now married to Eliza (49) from Midgam, Berkshire, retired from the police service and living with his daughter Ellen Bowyer and family at Hatchet Lane, Winkfield near Ascot. Ellen had married Winkfield housepainter Frederick Bowyer (1863). In 1901 he was a police pensioner living at St Giles, Reading. There is a record of the burial of an 80 year old John Bint at nearby Earley in 1912.
John's sister Ellen Bint (1845) married butler Alfred Brown (1852) from Hampshire in 1869. He appears to have worked in the Arborfield area as all of his children were born there. The were Alfred Brown (1872), Arthur (1873), Walter Ernest (1875) and Cecil Frederick (1878).
By 1901 the family had moved to Horsham, Sussex where Ellen had two sons living at home, Walter who was a school-teacher and Cecil a carpenter.
Another sister Mary Bint (1848) was working in domestic service as a saloon maid at a house named 'Darlinghurst' at nearby Whitley in 1871. Her future husband George Brake (1842) from Yetminster in Dorset was the coachman at neighbouring Park House. They married at Reading in 1873 and had moved to St Leonards near Hastings by 1881 where George was still a coachman. By 1901 his trade had changed to 'cab driver'. They had two children, George D Brake (1876) and Grace (1878).
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Another of James Bint's children, Hannah Bint (1840) married Thomas Haines (1839) in 1859. They only had one child, Agnes Haines, in 1860 whose father unfortunately died in 1861. Hannah remarried. He was George Clements (1839) a farm labourer from nearby Barkham. They had three sons, William (1863), Thomas (1872) and Francis Bint Clements (1876) and a daughter, Ada (1882). They moved to the Sunningdale area around 1875 where George was employed as a farm-labourer. Francis and Ada were born while he was living at Sunningdale Park Lodge. In 1901 Ada was a draper's assistant boarding in Pimlico, London. There were members of the Clements family appearing in the Arborfield Church register as far back as the 17th Century. The picture on the left shows the entrance to Sunningdale Park which is now a conference centre. Though the mansion was rebuilt in the early 20th century - this appears to be the original Victorian lodge and gate-house. |
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Their son William Clements was shown as a letter carrier on the 1881 census. He married Alice Maud Read (1865) from Ash in Surrey.
They migrated to the USA on the SS City of Montreal in 1885 and two of his children, Agnes Clements (1887) and Arthur 1889 were born in Florida. The family returned to the UK and in 1901 were living a few miles from Sunningdale at Trumps Green, Virginia Water where he was employed as a "stationary engine driver".
His brother Thomas Clements (1872) was listed as a junior clerk for an estate agent at Sunningdale in 1891.
His younger brother, Francis Bint Clements (1876), married Alice Sanger (1877) at Maidenhead, Berkshire in 1905.
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Francis Bint Clements in his early working life was a groom at Ascot Wood House, South Ascot, the home of the Liddell family, Henry George Liddell, and Lorina Liddell. The family are famous for their association with Lewis Carroll. Their daughter Alice Liddell was born on 4 May 1852 and the 3rd child and second daughter of the Dean from Christ Church College in Oxford. She was Charles Dodgson’s favourite girlfriend. She was also his main inspiration for the stories "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass". Dodgson (the real name of Lewis Carroll) told her many stories, and the Wonderland story was one of the tales he invented to amuse her and her sisters.
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Alice Pleasance Liddell aged 7 |
Moses Bint (1843) married Mary Jane Davis who was born at Fairford in Gloucestershire in 1840. Their marriage took place in 1867 at Reading, Berkshire. Their first child Albert, (1868-1899), who spent most of his life in central London was born at his mother's home town of Fairford in Gloucestershire. The 1871 census shows Moses working and living at the same stables as he was in 1881, a coachman for the owners of Woodley Hill mansion, (today a college), near Earley. The 1891 census has him similarly employed (coachman & groom) but only one of their children, 15 year old Agnes, a dressmaker’s apprentice, at home. St Peter’s parish records seem to show both Mary Jane & Moses being re-christened in 1870 (unless the clerk made a mistake when William was baptised!) Moses died in 1908, and Mary Jane in 1913. They are both buried at St Peter’s, Earley, a few miles from Arborfield.
They had four children Albert Davis Bint (1868), William Davis (1870), Harry Davis(1872) and Agnes Davis (1876).
Moses and Mary Jane's eldest son, Albert Davis Bint (1868) was already a groom as a 13 year old on the 1881 census. In 1901 he was listed as a coachman at St George's, Hanover Square in central London. He had married Lizzie Jane Westland (1870) from New Cross at Holborn, London in 1899.
Harry Davis Bint (1872) was a servant to the future King George V. He travelled with the Royal party as a "brusher" (valet) on their seven months tour of the Empire in 1901. Harry married Dorothy Ashburn (1872) from Allnwick, Northumberland in 1894 at St Georges, Hanover Square in London. They had two children, both born in London, Henry (1895) and Annie (1896).
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Extracted from a book called "With the Royal Tour" by E.F. Knight. He was a journalist for the Morning Post and accompanied the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on their 1901 royal tour of the Empire as they travelled a total of 45,000 miles. The Duke on his return was invested as The Prince of Wales and later became King George V. "It may interest you to know" the Prince said in a speech on his return to the City of London; "that we travelled over 45,000 miles, 33,000 miles by sea and 12,000 by land and I think it is a matter on which all may feel proud that, with the exception of Port Said, we never set foot on any land where the Union Jack did not fly". The tour lasted seven months in total.
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| The chartered Royal Yacht "Ophir" disembarking their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York in Sydney Harbour on 6th May 1901. | |||
Harry and his brother William Davis Bint (1870-1939) may have been briefly reunited in 1901 as William was already in New South Wales. Its not clear which ship he left England on or when he actually settled in Australia, but registers show him listed as a saloon waiter on the "Barcoo" in September 1890 and the "Maranoa" in November 1890 and January 1891. We know he married Millicent Filbey at Newtown in 1897.
Their son William Albert Bint was born in 1899. He married Maria Miller at Cessnock, NSW in 1920. Both father and son worked as miners in the Cessnock area according to local records. Another son Harry F Bint (1903) married Edith Steadman at Wickham, NSW in 1927.
Australian military records show miner William Davis Bint (born near Reading, Berkshire in 1870) enlisting in the 5th Pioneer Battalion during World War One. Pioneer battalions performed construction tasks in the forward area not requiring the special equipment of engineers, such as constructing trenches and dugouts.
He declared his age as 43 when enlisting at Maitland in 1915 and his next of kin was listed as son Harry Bint residing at the Butcher's shop in Adamstown. He was 5ft 6 and a half, had blue eyes and tattoos on both forearms, probably from his time as a merchant seaman.
After only two months in the trenches he was admitted to hospital with synovitis of the knee and repatriated to Australia on the hospital ship Themistocles in May 1917.
The reason for his army discharge was stated as "debility and overage".
