This page draws from other posts to piece together the genealogy of Alexander Wynch, Governor of Madras in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Paternal Lineage

Wynch

From contemporary records (notably wills and apprenticeship bonds) it has been possible to trace Alexander’s most likely origins back to James Wynch of Bray (will dated 1589, proved 1590).

Set out below is the short-form descendancy from James Wynch to Alexander, and more information on the discoveries and background documents will, in due course, be brought forward in future posts.

1. JAMES WYNCH (211 211 211 111 11) of Bray, Berkshire (d.1590)

1590 James Wynch of Bray

James had issue including:

a. ROBERT WYNCH (211 211 211 111 1) of Bray, Berkshire (d.1618) who married firstly Joane LUTMAN the daughter of Roger Lutman of Cookham, Berkshire, Yeoman (whose will was dated Jan 30 1581/2);

1618 Robert Wynche of Bray

Robert and Joane had issue:

i) Symon Wynch (will dated 7^th October 1643, proved [ ] 1646) who married Ellen or Eleanor Loggins, baptised 16^th September 1571 at White Waltham, Berks (IGI), daughter and heir of Symon Loggins (who married Elizabeth Foord the daughter of Thomas Foord of White Waltham, Berks), the son of Robert Loggins and his wife Elianor Stafferton daughter and sole heir of Henry Stafferton (or Staverton) of Warfield, Berks; and had issue:

1646 Symon Winch

A. Richard Winch of Fyfield or Fifield in Bray, gentleman (d. 1658; will dated 3^rd August 1657; proved 9^th February 165⁸₉) who married Mary Mayot the daughter of Thomas Mayott of Culham, Oxfordshire and had issue:

1658 Richard Winch of Fifield

a) Simon Winch of Fifield who married Mary Byshop the daughter of Robert Bysshopp of Bray and had issue:

‘1. Simon Winch of Fifield, Bray, gentleman (will dated 4^th November 1699; proved 10^th April 1700) who married Ann Bishop (brother of George Bishop, gent., died before 6^th January 1706) (will dated 6^th January 1706, proved 10^th November 1712) and had issue:

1700 Simon Winch of Fifield Bray

1712 Anne Winch of East Oakley Bray

‘a. Richard Winch (his father left him leases of lands at Didworth in the Parish of New Windsor, Fifield, East Oakely and Winkfield)

‘b. John Winch (his mother left him several parcels of land at Bray called Sparkbarrow, Long Close, Guelins and Askins – all late the lands of her brother George Bishop)

‘c. Elizabeth Winch who married William Davis

‘d. Mary Winch who married Edward Cotterell

‘e. Ann Winch who married Thomas King

‘f. Elinor Winch

‘2. Richard Winch

‘3. Robert Winch

‘4. Mary Winch

b) Mary Winch who married John Blake of Reading and had issue including:

‘1. Rev Charles Blake (1664-1730) b. Reading, Berkshire; Archdeacon of York; d. 22^nd November 1730 at Wheldrake, East Riding of Yorkshire

c) Elianor Winch

B. Simon Winch who married Ann Montague of Winkfield

C. Elizabeth Winch who married William Powney of Bray, yeoman (will dated 27^th November 1654; proved 18^th December 1654) and had issue:

a) Ann Powney who married Noah Barnard and had issue:

‘1. Noah Barnard baptised 10^th March 167⁰₁ Cookham, Berks (IGI) was apprenticed 7^th November 1684 to Nathaniell Winch DISTILLERS COMPANY

C. Ellen or Elianor Winch who married Simon Beckley of Fifield in Bray

D. Jane Winch (will dated 23^rd November 1676, proved 9^th August 1680) who married John Page of Bray, gent (will dated 21^st December 1654, proved 20^th October 1657), the son of Randolph Page of Bray and his wife [ ? ] Eldridge of Middlesex and grandson of John Page Keeper of the Wardrobe to Henry VIII and his wife Mary Fowler (daughter of [ ? ] Fowler, Alderman of London), and had issue:

1680 Jane Page

1657 John Page

[a) Symon Page (referred to in his father’s will but not his mother’s)

b) John Page (referred to in his father’s will but not his mother’s)

c) Thomas Page of Bray, gent. (referred to in his mother’s will but not his father’s) who had issue:

‘1. Jane Page

‘2. Sarah Page

d) Cicely Page married [ ? ] Farmer (referred to in her father’s will but not her mother’s)

e) Elizabeth Page (referred to in her father’s will but not her mother’s)

f) Jane Page who married Capt. Abraham Spooner of Burnham, Bucks and had issue:

‘1. Jane Spooner

‘2.  John Spooner

g) Elinor Page who married Samuell Nelson and had issue:

‘1. Samuell Nelson (overseas at the time of his grandmother’s will)

‘2. Abraham Nelson

‘3. Jane Nelson]

E. Mary Winch who married John Periman of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire; they had issue:

a) Symon Perryman who married Frances Umfreville and had issue:

‘1. Mary Perryman

F. Ann Winch who married Henry Southen of Stanwell, Middlesex

ii) Richard Winche, Clothier of Reading, Berks (will dated 8^th November 1629, proved 21^st November 1633) bur. 6^th August 1633 at St Mary’s Church Reading, “a Burgess of the town and a good man to the poor”; was made guardian of his father’s youngest son by his first marriage and all five children of his second marriage when, shortly after his father Robert’s death in 1618, his step-mother died in 1619 leaving six orphaned children. He married Judith Lydall (will dated 20^th September 1637, proved 17^th October 1637) bur. 28^th September 1637 at St Mary’s Church Reading, “widow, a good woman to the poor and a good neighbour”, the daughter of Thomas Lydall of Reading, gent (will dated 6^th March 160⁶₇, proved 10^th December 1608) and his wife Margery (Drewe?); Richard and Judith had issue:

1633 Richard Winch of Reading

1637 Judith Wynch

A. Judith Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 7^th November 1604; buried St Mary’s Church Reading 9^th March 160⁴₅;

B. Ann Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 11^th May 1606; married 4^th May 1625 at St Mary’s Church Reading to Robert Mayot of St Nicholas Abingdon, gent (will dated 13^th November Charles I 19; proved 13^th August 1646 in which he refers to lands at Fifield, Bray and a house at Abingdon) and had issue:

1646 Robert Mayott

a) Alice Mayott;

b) John Mayott;

c) Elizabeth Mayott;

d) Ann Mayott;

e) Robert Mayott;

f) Thomas Mayott;

g) Richard Mayott;

C. Elizabeth Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 21^st January 160⁷₈; married at St Mary’s Church Reading 9^th April 1629 to William Gandye;

D. Mary Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 10^th February 160⁸₉; buried at St Mary’s Church Reading 3^rd March 160⁸₉;

E. Judith Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 15^th April 1610; buried at St Mary’s Church Reading 15^th November 1614;

F. Richard Winch Master of Arts and Fellow of Oriel College, oxford (will dated 16^th January 164⁵₆; proved 6^th January 164⁶₇) baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 25^th August 1611;

G. Mary Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 5^th October 1612; buried at St Mary’s Church Reading 8^th March 163⁰₁;

H. Robert Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 15^th May 1614; buried at St Mary’s Church Reading 22^nd September 1635 “son of widow Winch”;

I. Jane Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 11^th August 1615; buried at St Mary’s Church Reading 30^th December 1617;

J. Thomas Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 15^th September 1616; buried at St Mary’s Church Reading 7^th April 1619;

K. Judith Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 18^th November 1617; married 15^th September 1634 at St Mary’s Church Reading to William Thorne (probably baptised 4^th October 1609 at St Mary’s Church Reading the son of George Thorne);

L. Katherine Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 3^rd February 161⁸₉; buried at St Mary’s Church Reading 10^th January 162⁰₁;

M. Ellin Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 26^th March 1620;

N. Thomas Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 6^th May 1621; living January 164⁵₆;

O. John Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 12^th November 1622; living January 164⁵₆;

P. Jane Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 4^th January 162³₄;

Q. James Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 5^th September 1625; Apprenticed to John Bunburie 8^th November 1641 GROCERS; living January 164⁵₆;

R. Simon Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 5^th September 1625; living January 164⁵₆;

iii) Robert Wynch

iv) James Winche, Clothier of Reading, Berks (will dated 9^th August 1665; proved 28^th September 1665) married firstly Ann who died 20^th June 1639 and had issue:

1665 James Winch

A. Robert Winch baptised St Mary’s Church Reading 19^th November 1614;

James married secondly 21^st December 1643 at St Mary’s Church Reading as her second husband (she had issue by her first husband) Sara Fellow and had issue:

B. Sarah Winch;

v) Elizabeth Winch who married Thomas Grove

vi) Grace Winch who married William Lewyn

vii) Ann Winch who married Robert Groave

viii) Mary Winch who married William Groave

ix) William Winch (<21 in 1619; living 19th July 1676)  of Reading, Broadweaver – he was probably the last son by Robert’s first marriage rather than his first by his second wife; he had issue:

A. James Wynch, apprenticed 12th August 1645 to Peter Morris, FARRIERS

ROBERT WYNCH  (211 211 211 111 1)  married secondly Joane HATHORNE  (211 211 211 111 2) who was baptised 5^th January 1572 at Binfield, Berkshire and died 18^th February 161⁸₉, and who was the daughter of William HATHORNE (211 211 211 111 21) the elder of Bray, yeoman of Bray  (will dated 13th September 1620, proved 1st July 1626) and his wife (married on 25^th June 1570) Ann PERKINS  (211 211 211 111 22)  who died in 1626. They had issue:

1618 Robert Wynche of Bray

i) Richard Wynch

ii) John WYNCH (211 211 211 111) ( -1675), Citizen and Haberdasher of London, married firstly in 1633 to Ann GIBBS (211 211 211 112) daughter of John GIBBS  (211 211 211 112) originally from Dunchideock, Devon but late of St Dunstan in the West, London (his will was dated October 23, 1622 and was proved November 2, 1622) and Anne his wife; they had issue[1]:

1675 John Wynch of London Haberdasher

A. John WINCH baptised December 11, 1640 at St Bride Fleet Street, London; buried 20^th March 1644 at St Bride Fleet Street

B. Ann WYNCH married by licence[2] dated 29^th October 1663 at St Olave Old Jewry, London to William WALTHAM; they had issue:

a)  John WALTHAM

b) Anne WALTHAM

c) Susan WALTHAM

d) Sarah WALTHAM

e) Mary WALTHAM

C. Judith WYNCH baptised 16^th August 1646 at St Bride Fleet Street, London; she married by licence[3] on April 13, 1669 at St Katherine Creechurch, London to John BURT; they had issue:

a) John BURT
b) Susanna BURT, born January 31, 1671/2, baptised 5^th February 1671/2 at St Vedast Foster Lane & St Michael le Quere, London, and married March 23, 1692 at St Mary Abchurch, London to Robert PEAD, Citizen and Apothecary of London; they had issue:

‘1. Robert PEAD, born 19^th January 1693-4, baptised 19^th January 1693-4 at St Olave’s Old Jewry, London, and died 21^st September 1705.

‘2. Susanna PEADE, born 30^th June 1695, baptised 1^st July 1695 at St Olave, Old Jewry, London, and was buried 9th October 1695 at St Olave Jewry, London

Robert Pead, Citizen and Apothecary of London, widower, married secondly, and as her second husband, Hester Wynch (211 211 211 2), widow of John Wynch (211 211 211 1), and the daughter of William Rous (211 211 211 21).

D. Robert WYNCH (211 211 211 11) Citizen and Haberdasher of London, baptised 28^th November 1647 at St Bride Fleet Street and was buried 25th July 1676 at St Bride’s Fleet Street:; he married (licence[4] dated 3^rd August 1672) at St Bartholemew The Great, London 3^rd August 1672  Susanna HENBURY (211 211 211 12), (the daughter of James HENBURY (211 211 211 121) and his wife Susanna JOHNSON (211 211 211 122)), who was born 19^th July 1657 and was baptised 28^th July 1657 at St Bride Fleet Street; Susanna, widow of Robert Wynch, married secondly to William Rous; they had issue:

1676 Robert Wynch Haberdasher

1654 James Henbury

a) John WYNCH (211 211 211 1), born 31^st July 1673 and baptised 12^th August 1673 at St Giles Cripplegate; hemarried Hester Rous (211 211 211 2) 22^nd May 1694 at St Bartholemew the Great, London; they had issue:

‘1. William WYNCH who was baptised 14^th September 1695 at St Michael, Highgate; he was buried 9^th October 1695 at St Olave Jewry, London (on the same day and at the same church as Susanna Pead noted above NB: error in father’s name);

‘2. Hester WYNCH who died unmarried was baptised 15^th June 1697 at St Michael, Highgate.

‘3. John WYNCH (211 211 211) was baptised 6^th October 1698 at St Michael, Highgate; he married at All Hallows Staining on 25th February 1719/20 to Mary KENTON (211 211 212), daughter of Captain Alexander Kenton, Mariner, of Bermondsey and his wife Margaret Peters, the daughter of Peter Peters, Surgeon, of Dover; they had issue:

1719 Alexander Kenton

‘a. Alexander WYNCH (211 211 21), (Governor of Madras) who was baptised on 2^nd January 1720/1 at St Gregory by St Paul, London

‘4. Reverend Robert WYNCH, Chaplain of Fort St. George, Madras from 1731, born 5^th December 1699  and baptised 8^th December 1699 at St Olave’s Old Jewry, London (“the son of John Winch, gentleman and Hester his wife” Parish Records). He was the second husband of Margaret MANSELL (who married firstly Francis ROUS, brother of Sir William ROUS – according to Penny, head of the Suffolk family but this does not seem to be borne out by research –  by whom she had four daughters).  He died 28^th December 1748 at Madras.

‘5. William WYNCH, born 27^th February 1701-2  and baptised 1^st March 1701-2 at St Olave’s Old Jewry, London; he married (as her second husband Mary [GUNTER]

E. Susanna WYNCH married 24^th December 1669 to Charles HARPER; they had issue (before 1675):

a) Susan HARPER baptised 19^th January 1672 at St Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street

b) Elizabeth HARPER baptised 13^th February 1675/6 at St Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street

John Wynch, Haberdasher, married secondly (by licence[5] dated 27^th September 1666) to Susanna MARKLAND (widow of William Markland of St Michael Wood Street London, Freeman of the Company of Innholders –  will dated 2nd May 1664; proved 19th January 1664/5) on 2^nd October 1666 at St Mary, Stoke Newington, and previously widow of James Henbury, daughter of George JOHNSON by his wife Katherine HASTINGS); hedied in 1675 and was buried at St Bride, Fleet Street on 1^st November 1675.

1675 John Wynch of London Haberdasher

1664 William Markland

1654 James Henbury

1641 George Johnson Dyer

1673 Katherine Johnson

iii) Joane WINCH married on 20^th December 1625 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London to William MATTINGLY (son, by the first marriage to William Mattingly (will dated 17th February 1614/5; proved 14th November 1615; challenged 16th February 1619/20), and Ann LOGGINS who married secondly to Nathaniel HATHORNE (brother of Joane HATHORNE see above; will dated 27th September 1652; proved 29th July 1654 – in which he refers to “my nephew John Winche and his wife Anne Winche” and “my kinsman John Winche of London, Haberdasher”), whose second wife Martha WHISTLER (will dated 24th September 1666; proved 9th November 1666) referred to John Winch of the Parish of St Giles without Cripplegate (“my kinsman”)

1615 William Mattingley

1654 Nathaniell Hathorne

1666 Martha Hathorne

iv) Judith WINCH (will dated 8th April 1684; proved 19th August 1684) who married on or shortly after 6th August 1650 William EDRIDGE or Etheridge of Aspiden, Herts (will dated 5th August 1678; proved 17th November 1678 in which he refers to a “deed made by me and sealed before my intermarriage with the said Judith unto John Winch and William Mattingly”;

1684 Judith Edridge

1680 William Edridge

v) George Wynch

b. RICHARD WYNCH the elder of Bray, Berkshire, yeoman (d.1618) who possibly married Joane POWNEY (referred to as Joane Winche in the will of Jone Hawthorn of East Ockley, Bray, widow – dated June 28 1577 – in which she also refers to her sons William Hawthorne and Richard Powney and son-in-law Richard Winche); they had issue:

i) James Winch who married and had issue (before 1618):

A. Elizabeth Winch

B. Jane Winch

ii) Ann Winch who married [ ? ] Smyth

c. William Wynch (presumably died before his father’s will was written in 1589) who had issue:

i) James Wynch

d. Thomas Wynch (presumably died before his father’s will was written in 1589) who had issue:

i) Thomas Wynch

ii) Elizabeth Wynch

e. Catherine Wynch who married firstly Thomas Foord and had issue; she married secondly William Slye and had issue.

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[1] It is thought (from IGI evidence) John married first to Ann, with whom he had issue and subsequently married Susanna (hence Robert Wynch’s reference in his will to Susanna as ‘My Mother in Law’

[2] From London Marriage Licences 1521-1869: Waltham, William of Cliffords Inn, gent, bachelor, about 26 and Anne Winch of St Giles Cripplegate, spinster, about 23, consent of father John Winch, leatherseller – at St Mary Colechurch or St Olave Old Jury 12^th November 1663

[3] Marriage Licence from the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury (Harleian Society 1669 to 1679 vol. 34): 10^th April 1669 John Burt of St Clement Danes, Middx, Goldsmith, Bachelor, about 34 and Judith Wynch of St Giles Cripplegate, London, Spinster, about 22, at her own disposal, at St James, Duke’s Place or St Katherine’s Creechurch, London

[4] From London Marriage Licences 1521-1869: Winch, Robert of St Giles Cripplegate, gent, bachelor about 24, and Susan Henbury of same, spinster, about 24 – at Great St Bartholemew, London 3^rd August 1672

[5] From London Marriage Licences 1521-1869: Winch, John (Wynch) of Bowe, Middlesex, widower, about 50 and Suzanne Markland of same, widow, about 40 – at Newington or Bromley, Middx 27^th September 1666

Comments or questions are welcome.