CHRISTOPHER•ALLEN•SMITH•WINTON Family Tree - Person Sheet
CHRISTOPHER•ALLEN•SMITH•WINTON Family Tree - Person Sheet
NameHugh WANTON [6246], [6335], 1C4R
Birth Date3 Mar 1827 [6246]
Birth PlacePortmoak, Kinross, Scotland
Bapt Date25 Mar 1827 [6246] Age: <1
Bapt PlacePortmoak, Kinross, Scotland
Census Date6 Jun 1841 [6335] Age: 14
Census PlaceKinross, Kinross-shire, Scotland
MemoMain Street. Living with the John LAING family.
OccupationTailor Apprentice [6335]
FatherThomas WANTEN (1793-1876)
MotherJean HAGGIE (ca1793-<1876)
Misc. Notes
Hugh not in his father’s household in 1851.
Research
Possibly married a Janet (Mackenzie?) (b.Perth) and moved to Glasgow, based on 1861 census.
Except that Scotlandspeople has no 1861 census entries to match the ones that Ancestry has in their 1861 index.

Possibly married Flora CAMPBELL, 20 Sep 1872, in Glasgow, Lanark. But that is a very late marriage. Possibly went to New Zealand?

A Hugh WINTON died in 1884 in Mount Cook, West Coast, New Zealand.
The NZ BMD website has a Hugh Winton, died 1884, age 62. Reg#2915. That would make his birth year ca. 1822. Also at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-BRCF

According to NZ electoral rolls for 1880-81, Hugh Winton, a tailor, lived in Anderston, Wakari, Otago, South Island. Note: Anderstons Road changed to Shetland Street. (still Anderstons Road in 1909 street directory). He was also there in 1875-76.

Found a Hugh Winton Findagrave MEMORIAL ID 166459137, dated 1884. Pleasant Point, Timaru District, Canterbury, New Zealand

But a Hugh Winton, tailor, is in the 1885-86 NZ Post Office Directory for Fairlie Creek, Canterbury (perhaps based on 1884 data).

An H. Winton, arrived in Aukland, from Sydney, in 1888.

A Hugh & Flora Winton had a child, Marion, born in 1876 in NZ.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-Z8W1
They also had a son, Thomas, born 1878.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-X1BF

A Thomas Ritchie Winton, born 1878, died 1955.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG6K-SXWH

Looks like Flora Winton married in 1885 to John Chalker, suggesting she was the widow of the Hugh who died in 1884.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24K-9VD6
Ancestry has same in their index but bride’s name spelled “Flord”
Last Modified 19 Jan 2023Created 8 Nov 2024 using Reunion for Macintosh
First Published 22 Sep 2013. Revised 8 Nov 2024
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