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Thomas WINGETT - mystery man

WINGETT-BROWNE-TOZER-HEARDER connections

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Thomas WINGETT and his son

These splendid portraits were kindly provided by Ian Hearder, a descendant. Click on them to view the portrait full size and use your BACK button to return here. The names below the portraits link to further information.

Thomas WINGETT
?-?
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Is it my imagination but doesn't Thomas WINGETT above look very like Mark WINGETT - the actor from The Bill? Perhaps they are related?

Link to photo of Mark Wingett
Link to a more recent photo of Mark WINGETT from IMDB.

Elizabeth WINGETT m. G.P. HEARDER
1811-1870
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Dr. Thomas Tozer WINGETT
1820-1860
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Dr. William Browne WINGETT (Profile)
1822-1865
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Thomas WINGETT (?-?)

I've called Thomas WINGETT a mystery man because currently we don't know very much about him.

Usually in family history investigations I know all kinds of things about the person but haven't an clue what he or she looked like. With Thomas this situation is quite the opposite. I have his portrait but I don't know his date of birth, when he was baptised nor even his date of death or burial. All we know is that Thomas died sometime between 1822 (birth of his last child) and 1851 (when his spouse was described as a widow in the census). But he was obviously fairly comfortably off and must have left some traces. We just need to find them.

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Tree

We do not yet know how this family connects into other WINDGEAT family trees. The tree below has been put together from information supplied by Ian Hearder, a descendant, and from the information in these wills:

Jane WINGETT's will, proved in 1827. We think she is Thomas WINGETT's mother.
Elizabeth WINGETT's will proved in 1855. She is Thomas WINGETT's sister and leaves a share of her money and goods to her nephews, Dr. Thomas Tozer WINGETT and William Browne WINGETT
William WINGETT's will also proved in 1855 - We now know that he is the brother of Mary COOMBE, who died in 1850.

All surnames are WINGETT unless otherwise specified and printed in capital letters. You may need to scroll right to view it all.

  
   ? WINGETT m. Jane ?TOZER                                 Lt William BROWNE m. Elizabeth HENDERSON
     __________|____________________________________________                  |
    |                 |                  |                  |                 |
 William              Mary            Elizabeth     Thomas WINGETT m.1811  Elizabeth BROWNE(1786-1862)
 b.?1782             (1784-1855)                         |
 m.Margaret FISHLEY  m.John COOMBE|        ______________|_______________________________________________________________________________ 
     |                 |                   |             |                |            |              |                   |              |
     ?              George COOMBE         Elizabeth     William     Mary McLeod     Anne Browne  Dr. Thomas Tozer  Dr. William Browne   Sarah Maria
                                        (1811-1870)    (1814-1815)  (1815-1818)    (1817-1885)      (1820-1860)       (1822-1865)      (1815-1833)
                                        m. 9/04/1836                                              m. 30/06/1854
                                   George Parry HEARDER(1811-1844)                                   Margery Forbes DOW
          ________________________________|_______________________________________
         |                         |                        |                     |
 Elizabeth Anne HEARDER   Dr. George Jonathan HEARDER   Thomas Browne HEARDER   Mary Wingett HEARDER
     (1837-1866)                 (1839-1894)            (1840-1871)              (1843-1929)
       dsp                                                                          dsp

Parents

Thomas WINGETT's parents are not currently known with any certainty. But we can guess (from her will) that Jane WINGETT is his mother and that they had fallen out over a debt of hundred pounds:

Jane WINGETT's will, proved in 1827.

We think Thomas may well be the son of a William WINGETT and a Jane TOZER who married in Totnes in 1781. This links up both with the birth of his brother William in 1782 and with the use of TOZER as a second name for Thomas WINGETT's second son. Also the WELSFORD family named in her will were in Totnes and Plymouth in the same timeframe.

Siblings

We know almost nothing of two of his siblings either. The only information we have comes from their mother Jane WINGETT's will and his sister Elizabeth WINGETT's will.

William WINGETT
We now know that this was the William WINGETT who also died in 1855 leaving a will.
Mary WINGETT married John COOMBE
They had a least one child: George COOMBE.
Elizabeth WINGETT
We know something of this sister's life from her very detailed will: Will of Elizabeth WINGETT now residing at Sydenham in the county of Kent - 1855

Spouse

Elizabeth Browne (1786-1862) was born at Woolwich, the daughter of Lieutenant William BROWNE (1748-1833) of the Royal Artificers and Elizabeth HENDERSON. They later moved to Stoke Damerel, near Plymouth where she married Thomas WINGETT on 11th February 1811. In 1851 she was described as a widow in the census residing in Compton Gifford, near Plymouth and living on investment income (a fundholder).

	Here is a photo of Elizabeth on the left. This was probably taken in about 1855 when she would have been about 70. Thumbnail only here- click on it for full size
	And here are portraits of her brother Lt. William Alexander Francis Browne, Cameronians (1783-1805) on the left and her father, Lt. William BROWNE (1748-1833) on the right. Thumbnail only here- click on it for full size

Children

Thomas and Elizabeth had seven children but only Elizabeth, Anne and the two boys whose portraits are above survived into adulthood. All of them moved up to Scotland where they had relatives on their mother's side of the family. The two boys both died at quite a young age (40 and 38). I wonder why?

No photo	Elizabeth WINGETT (1811-1870) married George Parry HEARDER, a printer and publisher of Plymouth, on 9th April 1836. Her husband, George HEARDER, died on 9th November 1844 and is buried in the churchyard of Eggbuckland, near Plymouth. In 1851, Elizabeth HEARDER moved to Dumfries where she took the position of Matron at the recently founded Crichton Institution at the invitation of her cousin, Dr. W. A. F. BROWNE who was the Medical Superintendent. She had four children.
	Anne Browne WINGETT (1817-1885) did not marry, in 1859 she was living in Broughty Ferry, Angus, probably with her brother, Dr. William Browne Wingett. Thumbnail only here- click on it for full size
	Thomas Tozer WINGETT was at one time Apothecary at the Crichton Institution. Later he was Medical Superintendent at the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum. He married Marjory Forbes DOW, 30th June 1854, Dundee. She became Matron at the Dundee Asylum. Thumbnail only here- click on it for full size
	William Browne WINGETT was a physician at Broughty Ferry and at one time at the Crichton Institution. Thumbnail only here- click on it for full size

Acknowledgements

The portraits and most of the information on this page has been supplied by Ian HEARDER, a descendant.

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