Harriet Henchman Winchester

Harriet Winchester (Mears)

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Edmund Winchester, born in Boston, February 16, 1811; married in Boston, November 12, 1833, to Harriette Henchman Mears, by the Rev. Baron Stow; died in Boston, November 15, 1845. Harriette Mears was the daughter of Elijah and Catherine Marshall (Raymond) Mears.

Family of Edmund Winchester, Jr., and of His Wife,

Harriette Mears.
George Henry and Marion (Winchester) Kingsbury
Edmund Winchester Kingsbury
Marion (Kingsbury) Appleton
Appleton Lineage
Kingsbury Lineage
Came Lineage

Carlisle and Maine Lineages
Bourne Lineage
Perkins Lineage

Justus Street and Fanny (Winchester) Hotchkiss
Street Lineage

(Governor Simeon E. and Susan (Winchester) Baldwin
Baldwin Ancestry
Roger Sherman Baldwin
Helen Harriet (Baldwin) Oilman
Sherman Lineage
Pitkin Lineage
Dudley Lineage
Wyllys Lineage
Haynes Lineage
Bradford Lineage

Charlotte Winchester

Florence Winchester (de Karajan) Sargent

EDMUND WINCHESTER, JR.

Edmund Winchester, Jr. (John, John, Stephen, Stephen Edmund) youngest son of Edmund and Prudence (Skillings) Winchester. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 16, 1811. Died in Boston, November 15, 1845. Married in Boston, November 12, 1833, Harriette Henchman Mears, youngest daughter of Elijah and Catherine Marshall (Raymond) Mears of Boston. They were married at the bride's home by the Rev. Baron Stow, pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Boston (Boston Church Records; also. Marriages in Boston, Vol. 1800-49 p. 441).

Edmund Winchester was trained for business in the firm of Lawrence, Stone & Company, domestic goods commission merchants, agents for the Lowell and other mills. The firm was composed of William Lawrence, William W. Stone and Samuel Lawrence. He left this firm to enter partnership with Alexander Turnbull of Baltimore, Maryland, the firm being Turnbull & Winchester, also in the same business. Mr. Winchester was then about twenty-two years old. Later, he left Baltimore and joined the firm of Tucker & Dorr of New York, a wealthy and leading house, also domestic goods commission merchants.

Mr. Winchester was a great favorite among his numerous friends, who enjoyed and admired his sparkling wit, and clever and witty stories, but particularly was he loved for his almost chivalrous courtesy and kindness to others, whether rich or poor, and for his noble and generous heart. He died at the early age of thirty-four years.

HARRIETTE MEARS

Harriette Mears, wife of Edmund Winchester, was born in Boston, January 26, 1816, and was not quite eighteen when she first married. She died in Boston, July 2, 1868. Notice of her marriage, which took place in Boston, Nov. 12, 1833:

'Last evening, by the Rev. Baron Stow, Mr. Edmund Winchester, Jr. of the firm of Turnbull & Winchester of Baltimore to Miss Harriet Henchman Mears, youngest daughter of Mr. Elijah Mears."

Mr. Winchester died in November, 1845. In less than a year after his death, their mother, then a young widow about thirty years old, decided to go abroad and with her four small children, one a baby in arms, sailed for Florence, Italy, in July, 1846.

She educated all her children in Italy, sending her three eldest daughters, when old enough, to the best French school in Florence, and giving them also the advantages of the finest masters of that city in music, drawing and the languages. They were brought up exactly like foreign girls, were never allowed to go out alone, had but few friends outside of their school companions and saw nothing of Florentine society, with the exception that a short time previous to their return to America, a country they dreamed of and longed for, the two eldest daughters, one about eighteen and the other sixteen, were allowed to go to a few balls and were both presented at the Court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II. Mrs. Winchester was an extremely clever and intellectual woman, a brilliant conversationalist and a great reader.

In 1866, a period of great historical interest and many changes in Italy, she was persuaded by her friends to write a series of letter from Florence, which show a deep insight into the political state of Italy at that period. She had lived there for many years, loved its people and sympathized strongly with them in their struggle for unity and freedom. These letters, written for a Boston paper, were collected by her daughter, Mrs. Justus Street Hotchkiss of New Haven, and by her published in 1893.

Harriette Mears married three (3) times.

She married (2d) in 1847, at Leghorn, Italy, the Chevalier Nicolas Theodore de Egarajan, a gentleman whose family was originally from Athens, Greece, but had moved to Germany and lived there many years.

They had two daughters:

1. Florence Winchester de Kabajan, born at the Baths of Lucca, Italy, Feb. 9, 1848.
2. Harriet Winchester de Kabajan, born in Florence, Italy, May 3, 1849.

Harriette Mears de Karajan married (3d) in 1858, at the American Embassy, Paris, France, Giuseppe Carlo Matteini, an Italian gentleman from Florence, Italy, previously of Rome, where he had been a member of the Noble Guards of Pope Pius IX, a famous corps, which always accompanied the sovereign Pontiff and formed his bodyguard.

Mr. and Mrs. Matteini arrived in Boston, Aug. 26, 1858, remained about two years in the United States, and returned to Florence, Italy, in 1861. Mr. Matteini had been appointed Vice Consul at Florence, Italy. Mrs. Matteini's three youngest daughters accompanied her to Italy. She had no children by her third husband.

In January, 1867, she again returned to Boston, where she died July 2, 1868, at the home of her eldest daughter, Mrs. George Henry Kingsbury of Boston and was laid at rest in her father's lot at Mt. Auburn, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Her third husband survived her and is now living in Florence, Italy (1905). He has been married twice since her death, the last time quite recently.

CHILDREN OF EDMUND AND HARRIETTE (MEARS) WINCHESTER

1. Marion Mears Winchester, born July 30, 1836, in New York; married December 30, 1858, George Henry Kingsbury of Boston; died in Boston January 14, 1902.
2. Fanny Mears Winchester, born Oct. 9, 1838, in Boston, Massachusetts; married May 9, 1866, Justus Street Hotchkiss of New Haven, Connecticut (Trinity Church Records of New Haven, Connecticut) Died in New Haven, Connecticut on Jan. 24, 1912.
3. Susan Mears Winchester, born January 29, 1840, in Boston, Massachusetts; married October 19, 1865, Simeon Eben Baldwin of New Haven, Connecticut.
4. Charlotte Mears Winchester, born February 12, 1846, in Boston, Massachusetts; died at her sister's Camp Aloha, near Paul Smith's, in the Adirondacks, August 18, 1904; unmarried.

Harriette, widow of Edmund Winchester, married (2d) at Leghorn (Livomo), Italy, in 1847, the Chevalier Nicolas Theodore de Karajan.

Their children:

1. Florence Mears Winchester de Kabajan, born Feb. 9, 1848, at the Baths of Lucca, Italy; married April 22, 1878, Joseph Bradford Sargent of New Haven, Connecticut.
2. Harriet Mears Winchester de Karajak, born May 3, 1840, in Florence, Italy; married June 24, 1869, Dr. Charles W. Swan of Boston, Massachusetts (For records of above marriages, see Marriages in Boston, Vol 1800-49, page 441; Vol. 1849-1869, No. 2064, No. 2012; Vol. 1869, No.1470. Also, Trinity Church and St. Paul's Church records of New Haven, Connecticut.