WINTON, Robert

  General Notes:

Old Parish Registers
St Cuthbert's Parish Edinburgh
Baptisms

" 20 March 1805
Winton
Alexander Winton Junior weaver at Water of Leith and Janet Guild his spouse had a son born 7th Feby last named Robert"

Robert's daughter, Helen, was born in May 1830, being baptized on the 27th May in St Cuthbert's parish. In the parish register entry for that baptism Robert was recorded as 'Robert Winton Blacksmith West Register Street'.

Alexander Winton was born in 1833 the son of 'Robert Winton Helen Webster spouses Deanston'.

Robert's daughter, Catharine, was baptized in Dundee in August 1837. Robert was recorded in the baptism entry of the register as a 'mechanick'.

The census for 1841 recorded Robert Winton with his wife Helen and their four children, none of these relationships actually stated by the census, living at Henderson's Cottages in Cowpen, a village in Northumberland not far from Blyth. Robert was recorded as aged 35 years and his occupation was noted as engineer. He had been born in Scotland. His brother, James, lived there too, (q.v), and was referred to as an ' ditto (Engineer) inmate'.

When his daughter, Elizabeth Robertson Winton, was baptized in March 1844 the entry in the baptismal register of St Cuthbert's recorded Robert Winton as an 'engineer residing at no 88 Canongate'.

Robert's daughter, Catherine, was married in 1857 in Edinburgh. Robert was recorded then as an 'engineer deceased'.

Robert's son James married in 1861. In his marriage certificate, his father, Robert Winton, was recorded as 'engineer (deceased)'.

Elizabeth Winton, Robert's daughter, married in 1863. In her marriage certificate, Robert, deceased by then, was recorded as a 'mechanical engineer'.

At the second marriage of his daughter, Cathrin Winton or Traghiam, in 1872, the marriage certificate recorded her father, Robert Winton, as an 'engine fitter deceased'.

In the death certificate of his daughter, Helen, in 1884, Robert Winton was recorded as a 'mechanical engineer deceased'.

Robert Winton's daughter, Catherine, died in 1914. In her death certificate it was recorded that her parents, Robert and Helen Winton, were both deceased, that her father had been an engineer, and that her mother's name before marriage was Helen Webster.

In 1916 James Winton, Robert's son, died. Robert Winton was recorded in the death certificate as 'Robert Winton slater deceased'. The informant was James Winton, son of James Winton.

Elizabeth Robertson Winton, youngest of Robert Winton's children, died in 1918. In her death certificate, her father, Robert, was recorded as having been an engineer. ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14}

  Research Notes:

DEANSTON

Deanston was a village in Kilmadock parish of South Perthshire when Robert and Helen Winton lived there.

Robert married Helen WEBSTER, daughter of Richard WEBSTER and Catherine JACK, on 14 July 1829 in Saint Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland. (Helen WEBSTER was born about 1809 in Water of Leith, St Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland ³ and died 30 November 1883 at 10.15 pm in 21 Cowan's Close, East Crosscauseway, Edinburgh, Scotland.). The cause of her death was 'apparently bronchitis'.

  Marriage Notes:

St Cuthbert's Parish Edinburgh
"Register of Marriages in 1829
13th July
Winton & Webster
Robert Winton Blacksmith Residing in Wall's Close Northside of Water of Leith and Helen Webster also residing in Same place daughter of Richard Webster Weaver there have been Three times proclaimed in order to Marriage in the Parish Church of St Cuthbert's and No objections have been Offered.
Married on the Fourteenth day of July Current by the Reverend Doctor David Dickson, one of the Ministers of this Parish."

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