Posts Tagged ‘Winterbottom’
Thomas Winterbottom was born in England to Samuel Winterbottom and Hannah Lees. We do not know if he had siblings. Nothing is known about his childhood. In 1861 he married ancestor Elizabeth Sant. Over the next nine years they became the parents of six children. The youngest, Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom was born one month after […]
Mary Shaw was born in England to Richard Shaw and Elizabeth Postles. She was the eleventh child of twelve born to her parents. She married John Sant in 1831 and became the mother of twelve children. Their daughter Elizabeth who married Thomas Winterbottom is our direct ancestor. Mary’s husband John met the missionaries of The […]
John Sant was born to Abel Sant and Margaret Bayley in England. He was the seventh of twelve children born to his parents. When John was just ten years of age, his father was convicted of having a file in his lunch pail and sentenced to the prison ship which traveled to Australia. This method […]
Hannah Elizabeth Winterbottom was the daughter of Elizabeth Sant and Thomas Winterbottom. She was born in England, where her parents lived on a boat and hauled freight up and down the waterways, rivers and canals. She was the youngest of six children and should not be confused with an older sister named Elizabeth Hannah who […]
Elizabeth Sant was born in England in 1842 to John Sant and Mary Shaw. She was known in life as Betsy. She was one of twelve siblings. She married Thomas Winterbottom, son of Samuel Winterbottom in 1861 in England. They became the parents of six children. One, Elizabeth Hannah died as an infant. Another, Hannah […]