I don't know where the Winchester line of my niece's family came from. The following are all of the details that  I have at this point in time. They seem to have just appeared on the Le Fevre Peninsula in South Australia

If you think you may be connected to this family, I would love to hear from you via email. In the near future, I will be adding pages which deal with the connecting families.

I have found very little on this man at this point. Charles married Ann Vonthethoff at some point prior to 1837, but I don't know where. I know who his wife was, but as to where he came from or even how he came to be in Adelaide, I have no idea. I have, however, found him listed as the father of six children and living on Le Fevre Peninsular near Pt Adelaide between 1850 and his death in 1861.

His children were:-

Ann Winchester1838-1913 married Henry William Petrie Vonthethoff
Harriet Winchester 1845-1932 married Donato Liccione/Liccioni
William Winchester 1849-1922 married Sarah Harriet Watson
George Winchester 1850-1862
John Winchester 1851-? married Isabella Adelia Leicester
Richard Winchester 1855-1926 married Jessie Hirst
 

These are their descendants -

Ann married Henry William Petrie Vonthethoff the son of Jakobus Vonthethoff. They had nine children:-

Henry Peterssen Vonthethoff 1860-1933 married Georgina Edyvane
Charles Valentine Jacobus Vonthethoff 1863-1945 married 1) Hannah Adelaide Ryder and 2) Ann Smith
John William Vonthethhoff 1865-1915 married Emily Florence Shaw
Harriet Ann Vonthethoff 1868-1950 married Sidney Arthur Wood
Adereyana Jakoba Isabell Vonthethoff 1871-1919 married Louis Henry Bevan
Ann Jane Vonthethoff 1874-1946 married Amandus Nicholson
Elizabeth Mary Vonthethoff 1876-1952 married Ernest William Carl Shaning
Theodora Rose Vonthethoff 1878-1902
Rosettha Emaline Vonthethoff 1800-?
 

Harriet married Donato Liccioni in Adelaide in 1863. Her husband was born in 1835, it is assumed in Italy. He died at Sandwell in 1910. I don't know when Harriet passed away.

They had ten children:-

Ann Liccioni 1863-1863
Dominick Liccioni 1864-1947 married Mary Cecilia Gilbert
Donate Liccioni 1867-?
Charles Valentine Liccioni 1869-1907 married Roseanne Ballard
Cecilia Liccioni 1871-1957 married Peter Noel Blasi
Emma Liccioni 1873-1960 married Vitor Bassani
Harriet Ann Liccioni 1875-1876
Therese Liccioni 1877-1945 married Louis Adolph Edward Albert Knoblauch
Susanna Liccioni 1879-1957 married Alfred William Brown
Harriet Ann Liccioni 1881-1969 married Duncan Edward Hart

William married Sarah Harriet Watson at Trinity Church, Adelaide in 1871. She was the daughter of Richard Watson and Ann Moon. Sarah died in 1935 and both she and her husband were buried at Terowie cemetery. They had 15 children:

Harriet married Alfred Edward Tonkin at her father's home in Terowie in August 1900. Alfred was the son of Alfred Tonkin and Mary Barnes. They lived at Gladstone and Petersburg (Peterborough) before moving to Prospect. They had 6 children:

Alfred Edwin Tonkin 1902-?
William Herbert Tonkin 1904-1905
Leonard Charles Tonkin 1906-?
Vida May Tonkin 1907-1967
Joseph Barnes Tonkin 1909-1991 married Sylvia Elsa Ward
Stanley George Tonkin 1911-1986

Charles married Susan Prideaux in Broken Hill in about 1902. They had at least three children.

Sarah Elizabeth Winchester 1903-?
Dorothy May Winchester 1905-?
John Harry Winchester 1907-? married to Dorothy Phyllis Smith

William never married to the best of my knowledge. He survived World War I and lived to be 81 years old.

William was a driver with the 32nd Battalion AIF. I found this photo of him with another man Thomas Reid, originally from Kapunda, which was taken at a place called Wardreckques in Belgium. That is William on the left of the photograph. Both men were specialists in driving wagons and caring for the horses they used.  For those who may wish to know something of Australian military uniform, the drivers gear was slightly different from that of an infantryman. The tunic is the same, but the breeches were designed for use in horse riding and driving. They didn't carry web equipment around their waists, but the bandolier over their shoulders and the rest of their equipment is the same, except that they wore leather leggings like a light horseman instead of the  woollen puttees of the infantry.

I have a feeling that this William probably had a middle name which was not recorded on his birth certificate, and would, if he had lived, most likely have been known by that name, since his immediate older brother was also named William.

My suspicion was carried further when I found the death of this child on the same day as that of William above. I think that there may not have been twins, but more likely just the one child - and that his name was more than likely either William George or George William.

Herbert married Bertha May Matthews in about 1920. She was the daughter of George Matthews and Elizabeth Hywood and was born in Terowie in 1886 and died there in 1959. Both Herbert and his wife are buried in the Terowie cemetery. They had at least 1 child:

Jack Morphett Winchester 1921-?

Eva married Josiah Hollitt, son of George Hollitt and Mary Ann Ashbury of Bedford Farm, south of Wirrabara in Terowie in 1900. He was born in 1865 and died at Booleroo Centre in 1863. They had 10 children, and thanks to another descendant of this line helping me out, I have quite a bit of information on the Hollitt family, but have only listed their children here:

Reta Elvy Hollitt 1900-1978 married Norman McAllister Craig
Doris Annie Hollitt 1902-1958 married Clarence Roy Venables and William James Lunn
Eric Josiah Hollitt 1903-1982 married Dorothy May Woolford
Ernest Henry George Hollitt 1905-1910
Sylvie Thelma Hollitt 1909-? married William Joy Woolford
Elma Beryl Hollitt 1912-1974 married Walter David James Scott
Horace William Hollitt 1914-1990 married Royce Myrtle Dack and Jean Lucy McAvaney
Stanley John Pratten Hollitt 1916-1996
Edna Jean Hollitt 1919-? married Ernest Edward Haynes
Ronald Winchester Hollitt 1924-1986 married Audrey Mabel Cowin

Florence married Lavington Samuel King and had 5 children. See the KING page for her descendants.

Ethel married Menotti Lee Carvosso at St John the Baptist church in Terowie in 1915. At first glance one might be excused for thinking that her husband was of Italian extraction, but he wasn't. His ancestry was Cornish. He was a widower when he married Ethel, his first wife (Annie Hall) had passed away in 1905 leaving him with a young family to care for. His lost his little daughter (Annie's child) Mabel Hall Carvosso in 1911 when she was just 8 years old. They lived at Moonta, Kooringa and Peterborough. Ethel and Lee had 4 children together:

Elva Annie Carvosso 1910-? married Maxwell Lewis Bailey
William Andre Carvosso 1913-?
Clarence Carvosso 1915-1968 married Agnes Watson
Mavis Joyce Carvosso 1919-? 

David married Ethel Margaret Schulze at Yongala in 1907. They had six children:-

Murray William Ernest Winchester 1908-?
Maisie Constance Winchester 1909-?
Mona Gwendlyne Winchester 1912-?
Mary Maureen Winchester 1914-?
Ethel Jean Winchester 1917-?
Leith Winchester 1920-?

Lillian married Thomas Hector MacDonald Lapeyre at the old Registry Office in Edmund Wright House, King William Street, Adelaide in 1913. Thomas came to Victoria from Mauritius with his parents Augustus Lapeyre and Eliza Jane Edwards. I haven't located any children for them at this stage or anything else about their lives. I believe that they probably went to Victoria.

Stanley married Lily May Purdey, daughter of Samuel Purdey and Annabella Hodges of Riverton. They had at least one daughter:

Eileen Margaret Winchester 1917-?

Hilda didn't marry that I know of, but did have one son:

Royce Winchester 1924-1999

Harry married Beatrice Mignonette Crew, daughter of Charles Crew and Sarah Ann Clifton. They had two children than I know of:

Gilford Allan Winchester 1913-?
William George Winchester 1917-?

John married Isabella Adelia Leicester in 1866 in Adelaide. They had ten children.  He then married Rosa Weaver in about 1899 and had another child with her.

First marriage children:-

Charles James Winchester 1866-? married Clara Alice Selina Utting
Alfred John Winchester 1868-? married Sarah Langley Johnson
Ann Simons Jane Winchester 1869-? married Eugene Sullivan
Jeanette Winchester 1872-?
Adelia Winchester 1875-? married Johann Martin Henschke
Charles Winchester 1877-?
Rosey Harriett Winchester 1880-1943 married Richard Hooper
William Hardman Winchester 1882-?
Amy Grace Hardman Winchester 1885-1942 married Frank Stephenson
John Winchester 1896-? married Hilda Ruth Tredrea

Second marriage children:-

Charles Winchester 1899-? married Amy Leshia Freburg

Richard first married Jessie Hirst in Adelaide and had five children with her. He then married Eliza Maria Brady but there were no children in this marriage.

First marriage children:-

Florence Gladstone Winchester 1880-1881
Richard Winchester 1882-1916 married Ethel Maud Hahn
George Edwin Winchester 1885-1885
Claude Winchester 1887-1965 married Gertrude Elizabeth Minear
John Jack Winchester 1893-1965 married Irene Florence Jones