John Winter

• also known as John Wynter, John Winter of Lidney in the Forest of Dean, John Winter of Bristol and Deptford, John Winter of Whitecross House, Lydney
• Born about 1505 in Gloucestershire, England
• Died Dec 1545 in Lydney, Gloucestershire, England
• Son of [father unknown]
• Husband of Alice (Tirry) Winter — married about 1526 in Llandorff, Glamorgan, Wales

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Winter-975

John's parents are uncertain. His father is not (as often claimed) Robert Winter, son of Roger Winter and Elizabeth Hungerford, because that Robert Winter was born about 1520 according to information given in the Visitations of Gloucestershire.

1526 -- John Winter and Alice Tirry married at Llandorff, Glamorganshire, Wales. Alice Tirry (Tyrry, Terry) was a daughter of William Tirry or Terry of County Cork, Ireland. John and Alice had 11 children named in his will dated 1545. [3]

Children [1]

1. Anne Winter (The First) born 1520
2. William Winter (Eldest) born 1528 in Wales
3. Anne Winter (The Third)
4. William Winter (Youngest) born ??
5. George Winter born 1550 in Dyrham, Gloucestershire, England
6. Arthur Winter
7. Elizabeth Winter
8. Mary Winter
9. Ralph Winter
10. Alice Wynter born 1516
11. Agnes Winter born 1528 in Lidney, Gloucestershire, England
12. William Winter born 1534 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, England

Notes

http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-73-383.pdf

The testator [William Winter] was the second son of John Winter (d.1545) of Bristol and Deptford, a merchant and sea captain, by Alice Tirrey, the daughter and heir of William Tirrey of Cork. See the pedigree of Winter in Maclean, John and W.C. Heane, eds., The Visitation of the County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623, Vol. XXI, (London: Harleian Society, 1885), p. 273 at:
Archive.Org See also: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pillagoda/ch11-01.htm

According to the Winter pedigree, the testator [William Winter] had four brothers and two sisters:

1. Arthur Winter.
2. George Winter, who married Anne Brayne, the daughter of Henry Brayne of Bristol, for whose will, proved 28 April 1567, see TNA PROB 11/49/135.
3. Ralph Winter.
4. William Winter.
5. Mary Winter.
6. Agnes Winter (d.1574), who married firstly William Brooke, and secondly Thomas Wilson (1523/4–1581), one of the two Principal Secretaries to Queen Elizabeth, by whom she had a son, Nicholas Wilson, and two daughters, Lucrece Wilson, and Mary Wilson, who married firstly Robert Burdet (d.1601), and secondly Sir Christopher Lowther of Cumberland.

• *For Thomas Wilson, see the ODNB entry.
  • For Mary Wilson, see Fetherston, John, ed., The Visitation of the County of Leicester in the Year 1619, Vol. II, (London: Harleian Society, 1870), p. 24 at: Archive.Org

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References

• Will of William Winter, 1589. http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-73-383.pdf
• Maclean, John and W.C. Heane, eds., The Visitation of the County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623, Vol. XXI, (London: Harleian Society, 1885), “Wynter.” Page 273. Archive.Org
• The visitation of the county of Gloucester : begun by Thomas May, Chester, and Gregory King, Rouge Dragon, in Trinity vaction, 1682, and finished by Henry Dethick, Richmond, and the said Rouge Dragon, Pursuivant, in Trinity vacation, 1683 : by virtue of several deputacons from Sir Henry St. George image, image
• father of Agnes (m. Thomas Wilson of Washingborough, Lincs. and Edmonton, Mdx.) Wynter see http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/wi...
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~pillagoda/genealogy/ch11-01.htm
• http://retrowikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wynter
• Will of John Wynter or Winter of Deptford, Kent (P.C.C. 1546, Alen quire). Read a transcript at bris.ac.uk (Department of History, University of Bristol).