The Golden Falcon

The Golden Falcon

Chapter XIX/9 - After

Her half-brother & sisters were:

(13) George Winter married and with issue in Ceylon.

(14) Mary Winter = Edward “Eddie” Pereira, Superintendent of Police, Colombo >:

(a) Muriel "Bunty" Pereira married ? > issue in Ceylon.

(b) Maureen Pereira = an Englishman Frank Chenery >:

A. Mary Anne Chenery.

B. Julie Frances Chenery.

(d) Muriel Pereira = Oswald “Ossie” Pereira (Eddie's brother), Superintendent of

Police in Colombo >:

A. Astley Pereira = ? > issue in Ceylon

B. Ernley Pereira = ? > issue in Ceylon.

(vii) Edmund Winter (b. 2.4.1879 at "Sunnyside", Baddegama, d. 8.5.1962, bur. St. George Estate, Galagedara), 7^th child of Alfred Octavius and Maria Winter married his Kandyan common-law wife Dassanayake (or Dissanakaye) Mudianselagé Kiri Menike (b. 17.7.1874, d. 25.5.1968, bur. Kandy) of Galagedara after having 10 children and then had an eleventh.

Extract from the Baptismal; Register of Christchurch, Baddegama, Sri Lanka.

No: 54

Alleged date of birth: 2nd April, 1879

When baptised: 20th May, 1879

Child's Christian Name: Edmund

Surname: Winter

Parents' names and address: Alfred Octavius Winter & Maria Eveline, Badegama.

Where and when parents were married: Tuticorin, Dec. 10th, 1863.

Names of sponsers: Annie Bowman, William P. Schaffter

By whom the ceremony was performed: Richard Dowbiggin.

I certify that the above is a true extract from the baptismal Register of Christchurch, Baddeganma, kept at Mission House, Baddegama. Witness my hand this fifth day of August One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Two. Rienzie Perera.

Name: Dassanayake Mudiyaniselagé Pahalagedara Kiri Menikay

Date & Place of birth; 17th July, 1884, Minigomuwa, Udapalata East, Tumpana

Fagther's Name: Dassanayake Mudiyanselagé Pahalagedara Ranhamy.

Mother's Name: Dassanayake Mudiyanselagé Pahalagedara Tikiri Menika.

Grandfather's & Great Grandfather's names: Not known.

Grandmother's & Great Grandmother's names: Not known.

Edmund was educated a St. Thomas CMS College, Colombo and Trinity CMS College, Kandy. He started planting as a "creeper" (apprentice) on Baddegama Estate with his uncle Edward Deslandes Bowman in 1898, leaving to take up a billet as an assistant on Coodogalla Estate, Kadugannawa under Mr Stanley Hill. After a period of 8 months he was transferred to Isabella Estate, Galagedara but left owing to a very bad attack of malaria. He returned to Baddegama Estate and took up a post as a tea maker but after a few months he left and went to Alluta Estate, belonging to Messes J. J. van der Spaar & Co. Due to a depression in the tea market, he left after two years, the estate being abandoned in 1901. With his savings he started a small dairy in Kandy with one cow, walking barefoot to sell milk to his neighbour - this venture was not successful and he returned to planting on Betworth Estate (the former Isabella Estate) which was under the management of Mr S. Hillman. After some time this estate changed hands and on leaving he found employment with Mr Hamilton Harding of Preston Estate, Dickoya.. Returning in June 1905 to Alluta Estate, he opened up 400 acres in rubber for Messrs Gordon Frazer & Co.

During these seven years of service, he saved sufficient money to purchase 42 acres of government land which was eventually opened up in rubber, he later acquired a further 60 acres from the villagers, which he also planted with rubber. He called the property Uduwakande Estate. When the rubber came into bearing (which normally takes 5-6 years), another 30 acres was purchased, extending the estate to 135 acres, 35 acres of which were planted with coconut and the rest with rubber. The whole estate was named St. George. In time when profits from these estates were good, he built a bungalow at St. George and when it was finished, he left Alluta Estate to reside there. A further 58 acres in the North Central Province was purchased, planted with coconut and named Gurugoda Estate. Later 300 acres was bought in the Kegalle District in and planted with rubber and cocoa called Labugolla Estate. A final addition of 58 acres called Majuba Estate in the Galagedara District was made, this being planted with rubber and later a portion in cocoa. All these properties amounting to 758 acres approximately were formed into a limited company in 1952 known as the Winter Estates Company, the directors being various members of the family. On parts of the estate he had as many as 4 different crops growing at the same time, tea, rubber, coconut and pepper vines and vanilla growing up the palm trunks, cocoa and even an occasional coffee bush.

Extract from the Memorandum of Association of the Winter Estates Company Limited

3. The objects for which the company is established are:

(1) To purchase, take-over or otherwise acquire, the whole or any part of the estates, plantations, properties called:

(a) Labugolla Estate situated at Dedumpitiya in Pallepalata Korale of Tumpane in the District of Kandy, Central Province.

(b) Gurugoda Estate situated in Pambegama in the Mahalboda Egoda Korale of Hiriyales Hatpattu of the District of Kurunegala, North Western Province.

(d) St. George Estate situated in the villages of Hithgoda Walpola, Uduwa, Malhabarala, Potilla, Medagoda, Naranwela, Gunadaha and Galdola in Udapalata of Tumpane in the District of Kandy, Central Province.

Now owned by Mr Edmund Winter of St. George Estate, Galagedara.

5. The share capital of the company was one million rupees (Rs. 1,000,000) divided into ten thousand (10,000) shares of rupees one hundred (Rs. 100) each.

Edmund Winter, St. George Estate, Galagedara, planter.

Willie Winter, St. George Estate, Galagedara, Superintendent.

L. B. Kolugala, Proctor and Notary, 1952.

77. First Directors: The first directors of the Company shall be Mr. Winter (Permanent Governing Director), Willie Winter and Mrs Nancy Winter who shall be permanent directors for life and the provisions hereinafter contained as to retirement and rotation and removal of directors shall not apply to them.

Edmund had 11 children >:

(1) Nellie Winter (b. 31.3.1903) = 24.4.1924 Benjamin van der Poorten (b. 12.5.1898), 2^nd son of Antoine Joseph van der Poorten Snr of Greenwood Estate, Galagedara >:

(a) Antoine Joseph van der Poorten junior (b. 3.2.1929 = Miss Mandelsohn, divorced,

no issue, emigrated UK and died there on 5.11.2001.

(b) Michael "Mickey" Adrian van der Poorten (b. 23.8.1930) = Carmini, emigrated UK >:

A. Ranmal van der Poorten.

B. Kirimenike van der Poorten.

Mickey = (2) Janet _______ from Ireland >:

C. Peter van der Poorten, nuclear physicist.

D. Benjamin van der Poorten.

E. Anna van der Poorten.

F. Danny A___? by another relationship.

of Nellie's sister Mary Winter & Humphrey Gray of Galagedara) >: Michelle van der

Poorten.

(2) George Winter by his wife Dassanayake Mudiyanselagé Bandumenike >:

(a) Bruce Winter = Dawn Jamieson emigrated Australia > Coreen in Australia.

(b) Blossom Winter = Jothipala, a Sinhalese singer >:

A. Waruni Wilochini Jothipala.

B. Regina Jothipala.

C. Esther Jothipala.

D. Krishiai Jothipala.

(d) Doris Winter.

(e) William Winter.

(f)Thistle Winter.

(g) Robert Winter

(3) Mary Winter (b. 21.9.1906 d. 17.10.1966 bur. Mahiyawa Cemetery, Kandy) = Humphrey Gray (a relative of Annie Gray, Daly's wife) >:

(a) Malcolm Gray = Viveca > 2 daughters in Ceylon.

(b) Marlene Gray = Trevor Cannon > Mark & Collin in Canada married and with issue.

-Canadian/Red Indian > son Anil and daughter, also Roseanne by another

relationship who married but died soon after leaving a son.

(d) Anne Gray twin with Jean = Joe Joachim, no issue, emigrated Canada.

(e) her twin Jean Gray = her cousin Emil van der Poorten (see above).

(4) Ernest Winter (.b. 3.9.1904) = Mary Burnane > Diana Margaret = her cousin George Johnston (son of Annie Winter & Richard Johnston) > daughter. Also Irene Winter by another relationship.

(5) Annie Winter (b.12.8.1910) = Richard George "Dick" Johnston, planter of Urugalla > George Christopher Johnston = his cousin Diana Margaret Winter of Dea Ella Estate, Galagedara > daughter. George = (2) his aunt by marriage Helen Winter (née Pritchard) > Rocky Johnston. George = (3) Indira. Gray, illegitmate d. of Tarzan Gray, illegitimate son of Humphrey Gray > Rehana Johnston.

(6) Nancy "Mabel" Winter (b. 11.4.1912, d. 16.7.1967 at East Molesey Cottage Hospital, Surrey) = on 11.7.1936 her cousin Norman Dagmar Winter >:

(a) Wendy Florence Winter (b.12.1.1940) = 18.12.19667 José García Pichel, son of

Rogelio Garcia Garcia & Concepcion Pichel Sampayo of Villar, Silleda, Pontevedra,

Spain >:

A. Guillermo Garcia Winter (b. 21.6.1967) = Mary Hennessy of Glanmor, Kilkenny,

Eire [div. 2004] > (1) Elena Maria Garcia (b. 27.5.1997)

(2) Rory William García (b. 23.6.2000).

B. Daniel David Garcia Winter (b. 2.6.2.1969) = Angela Strange of New Malden,

Surrey > (1) Michael Joseph García (b. 18.1.1999)

(2) Molly Garcia (b. 30-.9.2003)

C. Sara Elena Dorotea Garcia Winter (b. 21.2.1979, d. 13.11.1979).

(b) Anne Marguerite Winter (b. 10.3.1942) = Peter Graham Williams >:

A. Anna Katrina Williams.

B. Jeremy Peter Williams.

C. Laura Melisande Williams

Norman Benjamin Winter, also 2 stepchildren Simon & Caroline Milner (in USA).

(7) William Winter (b. 6.11.1915) = (1) Hazel Reith of Longueville Estate, Matale = (2)

Peggy Hillman of Meesgastenne Estate, Hataraliyadda. by (1) >:

(a) Roy Anthony Winter born in 1947 at Matale during a flash flood when all his hospital

cot was swept outside by the water, emigrated Australia married, no issue.

(b) Terry Winter = ? > Alain Winter.

(8) Jessie Winter (b. 29.6.1914, d. January 1966) = Captain Ivor Peter Murray, RN &

RCN >:

(a) Angela Anne Murray emigrated Australia = Palitha Mahendra "Harry"

Thambugalla >:

A. Alison Anouchka Thambugalla.

B. Adrian Thambugalla.

(b) Rodney Paul Murray, emigrated Australia, married, divorced, remarried. no

issue.

(9) Victor Winter (b. 29.11.1918 murdered in 1950s during race riots, bur. St. George,

Galagedara) = Helen Pritchard (she emigrated to Australia after his murder) >:

(a) Cheryl Virginia Winter (Mrs C. Sellamuttu).

(b) Louis Winter.

(d) Michael Winter.

(e) Allan Winter.

(f) Patricia Winter.

(g) Veronica Winter.

Helen = (2) George Johnston > Rocky Johnston.

(10) Dorothy Helen Winter (b. 28.3.1921) = George Albert Wood, an Englishman in the British Armed Forces stationed in Ceylon during the World War II., emigrated to Hull, Yorkshire and she returned to Ceylon when they divorced >:

(a) David Hencliffe Wood emigrated to UK = a Tamil girl Sarojini.

(b) Dorothy Anne Wood emigrated to Australia = van Cuylenburg (div) > 2 daughters in

Australia and a son Gareth in UK(?).

(d) Lynette Hazel Beverley Wood emigrated to UK = Chandrasiri > Charlene

Chandrasiri.

(11) Phylllis Winter (b. 19.1.1929) = 22.9.1951 Reginald Robert, son of John & Grace Roberts of Lelwela Estate, Baddegama >:

(a) Ralph Roberts married with issue in Ceylon.

(d) Kevin Roberts married in Ceylon emigrated Canada = Sherie Nugara >:

(i) Regenald David Roberts

(ii) Corolyn Roberts

After suffering for several years from stomach cancer, Edmund died in the early 1960s and was buried in his orchard at St. George, Galagedara.

No: 3233. This is the Last Will and Testament of me, Edmund Winter of St. George Estate, Galagedara in the Island of Ceylon.

1. I hereby revoke all Wills, Codicils and other testamentary writings and dispositions hereto made or executed by me and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament.

2. I hereby appoint my son-in-law Ivor Peter Murray of No. 51, Flagstaff Street, Colombo 1 (hereinafter referred to as my Executor) to be the Executor of this my Will.

3. Out of the money lying to my credit in any bank or banks and other moneys due to me I direct my executor to pay all my just debts and funeral expenses.

4. I give and bequeath unto my driver Katupullegedera Omala Marikkar's son Mohamed Rasheed a sum of One Thousand Rupees (Rs. 1,000) free of estate duty.

5. I give and bequeath to the Winter Estates Company Limited One Hundred and Twenty (120) shares standing in my name in the Baddegama Estate Company Limited.

6. I give and bequeath all my shares in the said Winter Estates Company to my children:

(a) Nellie van der Poorten

(b) William Winter

(d) Annie Johnston

(e) Mary Gray

(f) Jessie Murray

(g) Dorothy Helen Woods and

(h) Phyllis Roberts

to be held by them equally.

7. I direct the said Winter Estates Company Limited to permit my wife Dissanayake Mudiyanselagé Gedera Kiri Menika to occupy the bungalow on St. George Estate with all the facilities for taking the income from the garden round the bungalow of that part of St. George Estate that has formed the bungalow garden and to pay the said Dissanayake Mudianselagé Gedera Kiri Menika a monthly allowance of Five Hundred Rupees (Rs. 5,000) beside paying all her medical bills.

8. I direct the said Winter Estates Company Limited to pay the salaries of my domestic servants and driver and to keep the motor car belonging to the said Company at the disposal of my said wife Dissanayake Mudiyanselagé Gedera Kiri Menika who shall be permitted to use it whenever she requires it. I further direct the said Winter Estates Company Limited to maintain the car in good order.

9. I declare that my son George Winter and the heirs of my deceased sons Victor Winter and Ernest Winter shall not be entitled to any share of my estate as I had already provided sufficiently for my aforesaid three sons.

10. I give, devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my property, estate and effects whether real or immovable or personal or movable of whatsoever kind and wheresoever situate and whether in possession, expectancy, reversion, remainder or otherwise unto the said:

(a) Nellie van der Poorten

(b) William Winter

(e) Annie Johnston

(f) Mary Gray

(g) Jessie Murray

(h) Dorothy Helen Woods and

(i) Phyllis Winter

to be held by them in equal shares absolutely.

In witness whereof I, the said Edmund Winter, have set my hand to this my Last Will and Testament at Kandy this Tenth day of December One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty.

Signed, published and declared by the said Edmund Winter, the above named Testator as and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of one another hereunto subscribe our names as witnesses.

Sgd. D. D. Jayawardne

Sgd. B. Vidanagamagé

Sgd. J. L. P. Perera, Notary Public

I, James Percival Perera of Kandy in the Island of Ceylon, Notary Public, do hereby certify and attest that the foregoing Last Will and Testament having been duly read over by the therein named Edmund Winter, the same was signed by him (signing as E. Winter) and also by Didi Dias Jayawardne and Vidanagamagé Balamahatmaya both of Kandy aforesaid (signing repectively as D. D. Jayawardne and B. Vidanagamagé) and subscribing witnesses thereto, all of whom are known to me, in my presence and in the presence of one another and by me, the said Notary, in their presence, all being present at the same time at Kandy aforesaid on this Tenth Day of December One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty.

And I further certify and attest that in page one of the foregoing Last Will and Testament in Line 10 the word "other" was deleted before the same was read over and signed as aforesaid.

Which I Attest. Sgd J. L.P. Perera

Notary Public

Kandy, 10th December 1960.

Seal.

George was given land in Kuchchiveli, Ernest had Dea Ella Estate and Victor was also given some land. All three of them were artists, George knew the jungle like the back of his hand and painted wild life pictures which an American tourist wanted to get published but George was not interest; they all suffered from that plague of planters - alcoholism.

9. Ellen Nova, ninth child of George Winter & Sarah Cresse b. at Galle 7.4.1838, died and was buried on 13.4.1838.

10. Harriett Decima, tenth child of George Winter & Sarah Cresse was born on 12.4.1838 at Gindura and married at Baddegama on 23.4.1863 William Elphinestone Underwood. She died at the Queen's Jubilee Hospital, Richmond Road, Earl's Court on 4.8.1906 after being knocked down by a horse-drawn bus. Mr Underwood was in the Civil Service, Madras, Presidency of India and magistrate and Revenue Officer of the whole of Wynaad at the time of his death at St. Thomas's Hospital, London on 1.8.1893. They had 3 children:

(a) Robert Charles Elphinestone Underwood born 1864, probably educated at Dulwich College and then under Rev. R. Philips at Hambledon. He went to India in about 1883 and joined the Burma Mounted Police, married the colonel's daughter and became a colonel himself. He served in Pegu, Lower Burma and had no children.

(b) William Elphinestone Underwood born 17.11.1867 and lived at Lordship Lane. He went to Dulwich College and lived with his aunt Carry at 23 the Boltons. He studied at the Crystal Palace School for engineering and went to India where he worked for many years in railway construction. He retired in to England and eventually settled in the River Colony, South Africa. He married Sarah Miller and had a daughter Gladys who married Bertie North and had a daughter.

(c) Sarah Jessie Underwood was brought up by Carry, her aunt and had an excellent education. She had a lovely voice and played both piano and violin well. She married Paul Daniel Eyre in 1889 when he was rector of Newnham, Hampshire becoming a DD in 1900. They had 3 children >:

1. Lt Commander Wilfred Richard Paul "Putty" Eyre, RN (b.19.1.1893 married in 1933 Shelagh Basile Fan (nee Horner), widow of Alfred William Rosmalecocq Winter (d. Dec. 1931), d. of Charles Jared Horner by his wife Emilie Frances, d. of Rev. Henry George Cavendish Browne (see Barons Kilmaine). Wilfred left the Navy after World War I suffering from shell shock. He came to Ceylon to learn planting under his cousin Ally Winter and after his death, Wilfred Eyre married his widow (nee Shelagh Basile Horner). He committed suicide in Kandy and is buried in Kanatte cemetery, Colombo son Paul Francis Cavendish Eyre (b. 6.9.1935) who died of a drug overdose.

2. Arthur Charles Benedict Eyre of 90, Eaton Terrace, London SW1 & Westburton House, Bury, Sussex (b. 21.3.1901, d. 1984, Sir Douglas Hurd gave an impressive address at his funeral.), educated Marlborough. Benedict went into tax exile. He married on 27.9.1926 Evelyn Kate Lee of Hartwell, Bucks., d. of Philip Douglas Lee (see Lee of Hartwell) and had a daughter Tatiana Elizabeth Michelle Eyre (b. 12.12.1935) who married in 1960 Sir Douglas Richard Hurd (b. 8.3.1930), eldest son of Baron Hurd (d. 1966) by Stephanie Corner, educated Eton (King's Scholar & Newcastle Scholar); Trinity College, Cambridge (Major Scholar), President, Cambridge Union (1952), HM Diplomatic Service (1952-66), served in Peking (1954-56), UK Mission to UK (1956-60), Private Secretary to Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office (1960-63), Rome (1963-66), joined Conservative Research Dept. (1966), Head of Foreign Affairs Section (1968), Private Secretary to Leader of the Opposition (1968-70), Political Secretary to Prime Minister (1970-74), Opposition Spokesman on European Affairs (1976-79), Vis. Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford (1978), CBE (1974), MP Mid-Oxon. (Feb. 1974), Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, author. Douglas Hurd had 3 sons.

3. Christobel Sybil Caroline Eyre, MD married Admiral Nicholson. She was sent to Holloway jail under the Official Secrets Act for revealing that Winston Churchill and President Roosveldt knew in advance of the impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. No children.

Arthur Cresse Underwood, registered medical practioner, born in 1872 was educated at Surrey County School, Cranleigh and became a doctor of medicine practising first in London. He became MO on a warship after a broken engagement and went to Birmingwhere were he was MCH. He married his first wife Phyllis Fairclough, daughter of the rector of Barton Needwood, Staffs. and lived at Saltley, Birmingham. By his first marriage he had (A) William Elphinestone Underwood who became a famous surgeon and was appointed professor by the Royal College of Surgeons after writing a book. He practised in Harley Street and General Smuts invited him to South Africa, giving him a high post at Johannesburg where he was a leading specialist and lecturer of all the hospitals He married but nothing is known of his wife or children. Arthur Cresse Underwood married for a second time Hilda Ruth ---and had a son (B) John who became a plastic surgeon and married but nothing more is known of him.

Fig. 162 -Crosthwaite Eyre of Warrens, Eyre of St. John's Wood & Eyre of Hartwell.

Humphrey le Heyr, of Bromham, Wiltshire who went with Richard I to the Holy Land = Gillica (Visitation of Wiltshire) > Galfridus le Heyr living 1275 > Galfridus le Heyr living Edward III > John le Eyr of Urchfont & Wedhampton = Eleanor, d. & co-heiress of John Crooke of Urchfont > Simon le Eyr of Wedhampton follower of Henry VI (1433) > Thomas Eyre of Wedhampton & Northcombe > William Eyre of Wedhampton & Northcombe = Joanna Cokrell > John Eyre of Wedhampton & Northcombe = (1) Margaret, d. of John Bitton of Alton, Wiltshire (descended from Sir Walter de Bitton, 12 Henry III) > John Eyre of Wedhampton, 2nd son, knight of the shire (1568), MP for New Sarum (1571) = Anne, d. of Thomas Tropenell of Great Chalfield > Sir William Eyre (b. 1555, d. 1629), Sheriff of Wiltshire (1591), MP (1597) = Anne, d. of Sir William Baynton of Bromham, Wiltshire > Sir John Eyre (b. 1580, d.1639), MP for Calne = (2) Jane, d. of John Cusse of Broughton Gifford, Wilts. > Robert Eyre of Salisbury (1542), MP for Salisbury (1557) Mayor (1559) = Jane, widow of George Tourney of Salisbury & Motcombe, Dorset > Thomas Eyre (d. 1628 Monument St. Thomas's Salisbury), of Salisbury, mayor (1587), held lands in Wimborne, Dorset, purchased Chilhampton & South Newton, Wiltshire = Susan Elizabeth, d. of John Rogers of Poole, Dorset (desc. Rogers of Brianston, Dorset) > Thomas Eyre (baptised 24.8.1580, d. 1633), Mayor of Salisbury (1610) = Anne, d. of Rev. Thomas Jaye of Fittleton, Wiltshire (she married 2ndly Robert Mede of Manuden, Essex) >: Christopher, youngest son, of Manuden (living 1652-78, d.25.8.1682 aged 60, bur. Bath Abbey) > Robert Eyre of Putney and the city of London = May 1682 Anne, d. of John Brisco, citizen of London > John Eyre of Putney & Landford, Wilts. (bapt.. 1682, bur. London 23.9.1750 ) = (2) Phillis Pilkington of Lewes, Sussex > Rev. John Eyre of Wyley, Wilts. (b. 30.9.1756, d. 24.10.1792) = (3) Susannah d. of Edward Layton of Sunbury, Middx. > Rev. James Eyre (d.7.3..1855 aged 83), 2nd son, BCL, St. Mary Hall, Oxford, vicar of Ella, incumbent of North Dalton Yorks and lecturer St. Mary's Beverley = 5.4.1806 Penelope, d. of Thomas Hele Phipps of Leighton House, Wiltshire (see Phipps of Chalcot) > Rev. Charles James Phipps Eyre, MA. St. Catherine's College Cambridge, rural dean & rector of St. Marylebone (b. 8.10.1813, d. 11.9.1899) = 5.12.1839 Mary Helen (d. 2.2.1900), d. of George Eyre of Warrens > Edmund Phipps Eyre (b. 10.1.1848, d. 16.7.1915) = 8.10.1876 Rosalind, youngest d. of Robert Cochrane Crosbie (see Herries Crosbie of Flowerburn) > Rev. Paul Daniel Eyre, DD Queen's College, Oxford (b. 6.7.1853, d. 13.3.1929 ) = 6.8.1889 Sarah Jessie Underwood (d. 24.12.1935), d. of William Elphinestone Underwood ICS.

Arthur Morier Lee (b. 10.12.1845, d. April 1909) = 5.12.1877 Catherine Anne, d. of Lucius Henry Spooner of London > elder son Philip Douglas Lee (b. 20.12.1878, d. 4.7.1914) = 30.6.1903 Violet Mabel, d. of William Lovell > Evelyn Kate Lee (b. 5.5.1904) of Hartwell, Bucks. = 27.9.1926 Arthur Charles Benedict Eyre, younger son of Rev. Paul Daniel Eyre, DD of Framfield, Sussex > Tatiana Elizabeth Michelle Eyre (b. 12.12.1935) = Sir Douglas Richard Hurd.

The Underwood family had connections with India and Ceylon:

1811 - Thomas Underwood = Mary Anne -- (India House, Madras baptisms, 1698-1800 Vol. 16?, p.575).

1828 - William Elphinestone Underwood = Madeleine Thompson (Vol.12, p.16).

1838 - Thomas Underwood = Hannah Rose (Vol. 23, p.207)

1839 - John A. Underwood = Leonora McCallum (Vol. 40, p.25).

1888 - Robert Charles Underwood = Lucy Stephenson (Vol 69, p.286).

1896 - William Elphinestone Underwood = M. S. Miller (Vol. 8, p.44).

1726 - Thomas Underwood baptised St. Mary's, Newington.

Ensign William Henry Underwood (d. 1883) of the 95^th regiment married on 6.4.1840 Florentina Georgina Theresa Baganall, aged 26, at Trincomalee (d. 26.5.1849). Mr Underwood joined the Ceylon Rifle Regiment on 13.5.1840, became Lieutenant Commander at Puttlam (1845-47). He retired in 1851 and lived at the Manor House, Somerby near Brigg, Lincolnshire.

The Regiment embarked for Ceylon on October 13^th, 1838. The earliest mention in the "Ceylon Government Calendar" for 1839 which states it was ordered to Ceylon from Newry. It arrived on 4.3.1840, on “Jupiter”, Captain R. Fulton. [The 95^th Regiment in Ceylon, c. 1838-47, transcribed from The Regimental Annual of The Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment 1914. edit. Colonel H. C. Wylly, C. B]

The Calendar for 1841 gives the following:

April 6th, at Colombo, W. H. Underwood, Esq., 95^th Regiment, to Flora, third daughter of the late Capt. J. D. Bagenall, Ceylon Rifle Regiment.

Underwoods, Winters, Whites, Busbys, Carters, Bowmans, Priors, Reads and Cresses are recorded at the baptismal register of St. Mary, Newington, St. Mary Magdalen, Woolwich, St. Leonard's, Shoreditch and St. Dunstans in the East.

11. Henry Frank, eleventh child of George & Sarah Winter was born at Baddegama on 7.12.1841 and baptised by the Rev. H. Powell on 17.1.1842. He died on 10.4.1891 of bronchitis and influenza and was buried at Grouville, Jersey. He had joined the Indian Forestry Department and had very severe sunstroke. He was dependent on his mother and lived in lodgings in Jersey. He was a tall, very thin man who spent his days writing page after of pages criss-cross fashions - no one knows what he wrote about.

12. Charles Deslandes Church Winter, twelfth child of George & Sarah Winter, was born at Baddegama on 11.3.1845. On 28.7.1874 he married at St.Lukes, Church, Torquay, Alice Jane Lee, the service being performed by Rev. Alfred Lee. The witnesses were Sarah his mother, John T. Lee, G. M. Currie, Carolie and Margaret Lee. He entered the Bengal Civil Service and was stationed at Pudna, India in 1880 and the next year whilst visiting a sick syce1, contracted cholera and died on 8.4.1881. He was buried at Monghyr, India. His children were:

(a) Percy Gibson Deslandes Winter of Southsea, Hampshire.

(b) Charles Bertram Lee Winter of 19, Gwendwr Road, West Kensington

Huguenot Society.

1syce, a groom, mounted attendant.

Alice Jane Lee married on 21.1.1884, as her second husband, George Maxwell Reilly, Manager of the London Mortgage Bank, Calcutta.

The above information was verified by the Rev. Charles Henry Winter.

"I, Charles Henry Winter, Clerk in Holy Orders, declare the above typed in black to be a true copy of papers left by my grandmother Sarah Winter, all typed in red is found on certificates and documents in my possession. As witness my hand, April 20th, 1953. at "The King's Peace", Grayshott, Hindhead, Surrey. Signed Charles Winter."

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