LEWIN AND LEWIN-PUTTERILL OF TUR LANGTON, LEICESTERSHIRE AND WINKBURN AND SOUTHWELL, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND

William LEWIN-PUTTERILL married Mary NOTON on the 3^rd February 1820 by licence in the Winkburn Parish Church, Winkburn near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England.

William and Mary had eight children, seven sons and one daughter. The families stayed mostly in the Southwell area and are still present in the area today. The families used the surname LEWIN-PUTTERILL until the early 1900s when it became just LEWIN.

John LEWIN-PUTTERILL	born 1820	Married 1st Charlotte HARRISON. Marr 2nd Ann ?	No known children
Thomas LEWIN-PUTTERILL	born 1821	Married Mary RADCLIFF	2 sons, 2 daughters
William LEWIN-PUTTERILL	born 1824	Married Mary FINES at Southwell Minster	3 sons, 3 daughters
Edward LEWIN-PUTTERILL	born 1826	Married Anne JOHNSON at Winkburn	No known children
George LEWIN-PUTTERILL	born 1826	Married Louisa NICHOLSON	3 sons, 7 daughters
Ann LEWIN-PUTTERILL	born 1829	Died 1858 Unmarried	-
Henry LEWIN-PUTTERILL	born 1831	Living Derbyshire 1881. Nothing more is known.	-

After the death of Mary NOTON in 1835, William LEWIN-PUTTERILL married Harriett CATLIFF at Southwell Minster on 8 December 1836.

Where did William come from and why the double-barrelled name? After almost 20 years of research a chance comment by someone at the Leicestershire Archives led to the Bishops Transcripts for Tur Langton where he appears as William PUTTERILL son of William PUTTERILL and Catherine nee LEWIN. William had six sisters so he possibly took both surnames to stop the LEWIN name dying out!

With the advent of on-line census searching thanks to Ancestry.co.uk and a very good friend we may have found William and Harriet in the 1851 census.

Wendling, Norfolk (HO107/1825)

At an illegible property between Abbey Farm and Hennings Hall there is in residence

William LEWIN	Head	Marr	Farmer - Steward of 100 acres employing 5 labs	Bn Northampton ???
Harriet LEWIN	Wife	Marr	-	Bn Hint ? Nottingham
Robert MURREL	Servant	Unmarr	Farm Servant	Bn Hingham, Norfolk

A cousin has found in the 1861 census: -
William Lewin 59 born Langton Leics, living at Hendon Middlesex, Under Gardener Domestic.
Harriet Lewin 59 born Redford (Retford) Notts., living at Hendon Middlesex.
The Ecclesiastical parish for both is Mill Hill St. Paul.
The ages do not tally with the previous information, but they hardly ever do !!

PUTTERILL is an English metonymic occupation name for someone responsible for keeping horses or nickname for a frisky high-spirited person. Pullus-young animal. A family called POUTREL or POWDRILL held the Manor of Thrumpton Nottingham from the time of the Doomsday Book until 1604 when it was confiscated in view of the family's well-known Catholic sympathies. Members of the family then moved to West Hallan, Derby. But the direct line died out in 1666. The name had also spread in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire by the early 14th century and is still found mainly in this region. (Hank & Hodges Surname Dictionary.)

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