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MY SUNNINGDALE, BERKSHIRE BINT FAMILY |
William Bint from Shinfield, Berkshire, who married Hannah Clark in 1800, fathered the nearby Arborfield, Berkshire family from whom I, Tom Bint born in 1936 am descended. William was the son of John Bint and Mary Critcher who were married at nearby Shinfield in 1752.
One of William's sons, William (1812-1897) moved to Sunninghill, near 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 Coworth Park a large local estate, as a labourer. He later became farm bailiff and remained at Coworth until his retirement.
His great grandson Thomas James Bint born 1889 the only surviving son of William (born 1865), lived at Woodbine Cottage, Chobham Road, Sunningdale and worked as a gardener until his death in 1958. He had in 1914 married a Scottish girl Isabella McNab Craig born in 1890 at the Toll House in Killin, Perthshire, who had been employed to help out at Woodbine Cottage after the death of Thomas James's mother Margaret. Shortly after the marriage he was serving with the army during the First World War.
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My Grandmother Isabella was to have a hard life. Two of her four sons were killed in the Second World War, a third returned from the Far East with a tropical disease and died in 1960,she was widowed in 1958, and her much loved youngest grand-daughter, Fred's 17 year old daughter Corinne, was killed in a car accident in 1967. She died at her home near Melbourne, Australia in 1976. My Grandparents, William's great-grandson Thomas James Bint (born Sunningdale, Berkshire in 1889) and Isabelle McNab Craig (born 1890 at Killin, Perthshire in Scotland) were married at Sunningdale in 1914. They had five children.
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Thomas & Isabella Bint
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Harry, known in the family as Peter (born 1919) joined the Royal Berks Regiment and was killed in action at Dunkirk in 1940. He is buried in Belgium.
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My father was Thomas William Bint (born 1915). After his marriage to Ivy May Savery from Pontypool in South Wales, they went to live at Englefield Green a few miles from my Sunningdale grandparents. Originally trained as a gas-fitter, he joined the RAF as an air gunner on Lancaster bombers in 1943. He died in 1944 when shot down over Germany. His grave is in the Reichswald Forest War cemetery. He left a wife and two children, Tom (born 1936) and Pat (born 1938). My sister Pat married Ian Taylor and settled near Pontypool, South Wales. They have two children, Carole & Heidi. My mother Ivy married Ernest (Benny) Bending in 1946 and they had two sons, Peter Bending (1946) and Michael (1950).
William James, "Jim" Bint (born 1917) returned from his military service in the Far East a very sick man. He died after a long illness in 1960. He left a wife May, daughters Doreen (1938) and Beryl (1940) and sons Clive (1945) and Ian (1946).
Peggy Bint (born 1921) married Reg Shuttleworth and migrated to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1940's and was followed there by her youngest brother Fred.
Fred (born 1924), his wife Nelly, their daughter Corinne (born 1950) and my grandmother Isabelle, migrated to Australia a few years after my grandfather Thomas James died at Sunningdale in 1958.
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| My grandfather Thomas James Bint is buried at Sunningdale churchyard. His gravestone is shared with several of the earlier family. His two sons lost in World War 2 are named on the war memorial outside the parish church. |
Tom Bint 1915-1944 |