Edwin WINDEATT, Whitesmith

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John WINGATE []
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  6 older brothers and sisters   Edwin Augustus WINDEATT                   2 younger brothers
                                 Whitesmith                                 
                                 cd.14.05.1820 (Sampford Spiney, Devon)
                                 d.1882, in Exeter City Workhouse age ?56
                                 m.26/03/1845, St. Mary Major, Exeter, to Mary CALL

NOTE: Dates in bold mean that we have a copy of the certificate.

About Edwin

We don't know much about Edwin other than that he was a Whitesmith (tinsmith) in Exeter and married Mary CALL in 1845. His younger brother Henry was a witness and they appeared to be close - Edwin and his wife were living with Henry in Teignmouth in 1861.

There is a record of Edwin's apprenticeship indenture in 1835 to David EVANS, whitesmith, of Coombe Street, Exeter dated 3/08/1835 [1]. He would have been 15 years old.

Edwin and Mary do not appear to have had any children and both died, twelve years apart, in Exeter Workhouse.

Link to Exeter Workhouse page from Peter Higginbotham' excellent website on 'The Workhouse'.
Link to a print of the Workhouse dated 1744 from the Devon Local Studies pages
Link to page about Exeter Freemen from the Exeter City Council website.

Death in the Eastern Sub-district in the County of Exeter 1882

When & Where	Name	Sex	Age	Occupation	Cause of Death	Signature, description and residence of informant	When registered
6th December 1882 City Workhouse U.S.D.	Edwin WINDEATT	Male	56 years	Whitesmith of Exeter	Apoplexy 1 week Certified by J. Woodman M.D.	? ?* Master City Workhouse Exeter	8th December 1882

*Informant: The copy certificate I have gives the name as something like Hurg NARRATO. But on the Exter Workhouse page transcribing the 1881 census it obviously should have been Wm. G. NEWATT!

Link to census transcription from the Exeter City Workhouse page from Peter Higginbotham.

NOTE ALSO that Edwin in the same census is erroneously transcribed with the surname WINDEATH and his birthplace is given as Culridge instead of Horrabridge. But his age is given correctly on the census (60) while on the death certificate it should have been 61.

Wife Mary CALL (?1814-1870)

In 1845 Edwin married Mary CALL in St. Mary Major, Exeter. Both bride and groom and both witnesses signed the certificate.

Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of St. Mary Major in the City of Exeter

Date	Name & Surname	Age	Condition	Rank or Profession	Residence at the time of Marriage	Father's Name and Forename	Rank or profession of Father	Witnesses
24/03/1845	Edwin WINDEATT	full	Bachelor	Smith	Coombe St	John WINDEATT	Mason	Henry Windeatt Elizabeth CORNISH
24/03/1845	Mary CALL	full	Spinster	-	Coombe St	James CALL	Labourer	Henry Windeatt Elizabeth CORNISH

Mary CALL was almost certainly the sister of his elder brother George's first wife Harriet CALL. Harriet died sometime between 1838 and 1840 but Mary, her sister, was living with George and his second wife at the time of the 1841 census and eventually married Edwin in 1845. Mary was probably five to ten years or so older than Edwin. This is not unusual in this family. Many of the men married women older than themselves.

Edwin's nephew, his older brother George's first son by his wife's sister Harriet, was also named George. George junior did not become a plasterer like his father but he became a tinsmith like his uncle and it is highly probable that he learned his trade from Edwin.

Parents and Siblings

Edwin was the seventh child and fifth surviving son of John WINDEATT and Thomasine HOSKINS.
See the Seven Brothers tree [More . . .]

Census Transcriptions

1841 Census (taken 6th June 1841)

Here's Edwin and his younger brother Henry living with their mother and an older sister in Paris St., Exeter. Father, John, is somewhere else (we haven't found him yet). Edwin's other brothers and sisters are all off working elsewhere.

Name	Age (rounded down)	Occupation	Born in County
Thomasin WINDEAT	50	Ind	Y
Parscho TURNER	33	Ind	Y
Edwin WINDEATT	21	Whitesmith Appr.	y
Henry WINDEAT	19	Painter	Y

1851 Census

Here is Edwin, now married and living at 27 Coombe Street, St Mary Major Exeter. The census ages are not quite right but it must be them.

Name	Relationship	Mar	Age	Sex	Occupation	Birthplace	?DOB
Edwin WINDEATT	Head	M	28	M	White Smith	Sampd Spiney-DEV	1822
Mary WINDEATT	Wife	M	38	F	Needle Woman	Plymouth-DEV	1812

1861

Here is Edwin and his wife, Mary, living with his brother and their family in West Teignmouth. They mostly lived in Exeter and we don't know why they were in West Teignmouth at this time. There is no note to say whether brother Henry is blind or not at this time but perhaps his brother had come down to help out if he had become or was going blind.

Name	Relationship	Mar	Age	Occupation	Birthplace
HENRY WINDEATT	Hd.	Md.	38	Painter	Devon, Horrabridge
JANE WINDEATT	Wife	Md.	38		Devon, Exeter
MARY JANE WINDEATT	Dtr.		13	Scholar	Devon, Exeter
ELIZABETH WINDEATT	Dtr.		10	Scholar	Devon, Teignmouth
HENRY WINDEATT	Son		6		Devon, Teignmouth
ELLEN WINDEATT	Dtr.		1		Devon, Teignmouth
ELIZABETH MILLINGTON	Nurse-child		2		Devon, Teignmouth
EDWIN WINDEATT	Brother-in-law	Md.	40	Whitesmith	Devon, Horrabridge
MARY WINDEATT	B/law's wife	Md.	49		Devon, Plymouth

References

1. Rowe, M. M. & Jackson, A. M. Exeter Freemen, 1266-1967. Devon and Cornwall Record Society.