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Families

• Blake
• Burnham
• Dandridge
• Dudley
• Edmunds
• Fige (Fyge)
• Gibbs
• Grant
• Gyles
• Ingram
• Jackman
• Jennings
• Lee
• Loffler
• Lowndes
• Mead
  
• Minter
• Mitchell
• Montague (Mountague) of Granborough
• Paradine (Palladie)
• Pigott of Little Horwood
• Ridgway (Ridyard, Rigard)
• Sear
• Seaton
• Spooner: see Mitchell
• Turnbull
• Whichello
• Willis
• Wilmore (Willmore)
• Arthur Clear, A Thousand Years of Winslow Life (1888): The Mayne family

Information will be added here about other Winslow families. We would be very pleased to hear from genealogists who could contribute a short piece about their Winslow ancestors. Please contact d.noy at btinternet.com.

People

• Thomas Palmer (c.1475-1518), lawyer
• Sarah Fyge Egerton (1670-1723), poet and advocate of women's rights
• Edward Boswell, "King of the Gypsies" (d.1689)
• Joseph Dandridge (1668-1747), entomologist and silk weaver
• Thomas Hogson, accused of murder (1739)
• Jane Walker (Little Jenny), d.1802
• Bankruptcy of John Turpin, 1813
• William Wilson, solicitor (1797-1829)
• William Ovitts (d.1830), soldier
• Daniel Yeulett the carrier, 1844
• Death of James Walker, 1846
• George Mayne: Return of a Crimean War hero (1856)
• John Kelland, surgeon (1805-1886)
• Silvanus Jones (1827-1914) and Henry Arthur Jones the playwright (1851-1929)
• Zilpah Walker (court case, 1838)
• Eliza Kirk - from Winslow Workhouse to Hope Island Lighthouse (1830s-40s)
• William Warner aged 42, a "pig-jobber" whose father lived in Winslow, was tried at the Old Bailey in 1839 for stealing a cow in Whaddon Chase
• Mr Twining and his electro-galvanic machine (1851)
• John Mason Scott and the magistrates' court, 1851
• Joseph Whichello and the Indian Mutiny (1857-58)
• F.J. Munt, jeweller and watchmaker 1855-59
• Ned Piggott, assaulted the police 1848, walked to London with a wheelbarrow, 1879
• Suicide of Thomas Langton on the Market Square, 1872
• William Jennings, sexton (d.1872)
• Rev. Alfred Preston (1822-1882)
• Charles Mayne of Anmount Lodge (1803-1890)
• William Goodman (1835-1904)
• Inspector Bond (b.1849)
• Herbert Bullock (1849-1907)
• George D. Day (1872-1911)
• Divorce of Louisa Mary Hooper (nee Dudley), 1883
• Obituary of Henry Wigley (d.1888)
• Obituary of Thomas B. Saving (d.1891)
• Obituary of William Keys (d.1891)
• Obituary of Grant King (d.1892)
• Obituary of Arthur Stead Midgley (d.1894)
• Henry Rodwell, protester and emigrant (1811-1898)
• Obituary of Edward Lane Sear (d.1895) and Elizabeth Ann Sear (d.1935)
• Arthur Clear (1833-1900), Winslow's first published historian, and his son Alfred J. Clear
• Obituary of G.D.E. Wigley (d.1906)
• Obituary of John King (d.1907)
• Ezra Braggins, Silk Merchant and Draper (1844-1912)
• Sergeant-Major Edward Collier (1831-1916), Crimean War veteran
• William James Royce (1855-1932)
• The Grace Brothers of Sydney
• George Pass (1864-1951): Respected Headmaster and Fund-Raiser
• William Edward Hine (1876-1912): Winslow man on the Titanic
• George Verney, postman, retired 1910
• Albert Victor Hamp (1895-1985)
• Cecil Walker (1901-1962)

See also:

• Family announcements
• Goodger family: external link; details about C18-19 Goodgers in Winslow, some of whom emigrated to Australia and the USA.

Information will be added here about other interesting people from Winslow's history. We would be very pleased to receive more contributions. Please contact d.noy at btinternet.com.