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    Edward   Benjamin  
    1767-1841   1769-1797  
    Solicitor of Reading a n d    
     
      WILLS  
     
     
  Son of  
  Edward1725 Edward[1]   Emma 1790[2]  
    1767-1841      
    Mary     Edward[3]   Augusta E 1836[4]  
    Hillier[5]   c 1805-      
      Elizabeth     Ellen A 1838[6]  
      Augusta      
        Edith H 1840[7]  
  Sons of      
  Edward     Emily M 1842[8]  
  1725-1785      
        Edward A 1844[9]  
         
        Arthur V 1846[10]  
     
  Son of  
  Edward1725 Benjamin[11]   Samuel 1796-c1892[12]  
    1769-1797      
    Elizabeth     Elizabeth 1797  
    Worcester  

[1]
Edward was a solicitor of Reading and apparently a main figure in the Vines family businesses. See his will of 1840.
[2]
Emma born between 1790 and 1800, inferred from Edwards will of 1840. Jenny Vines, Sydney.
[3]
Edward Vines in Reading, later of Wyvol's Court, Swallowfield near Reading. His last three children were born at Swallowfield, and his wife's name was Elizabeth Augusta, but I haven't found a marriage for them yet. Jenny Vines, Sydney.
[4]
Augusta Emma 1836-1903. Professed Nurse/Church Worker. Never married.[
[5]
First wife Ann?
2nd wife Mary?
[6]
Ellen Anne 1838-1913 Governess. Never married.
[7]
Edith Harriet 1840-1900 Governess. Never married.
[8]
Emily Mary 1842-1923
Governess. Never married.
[9]
Edward Alfred 1844
1844-?1892. Edward is a problem. He may have died young, or he may be the Edward A. Vines, Single, late Superintendent of Police, Lunatic, [the "L" word again!], in the Royal India Asylum in Ealing, London in the 1891 Census. Jenny Vines, Sydney
[10]
Arthur Vernon 1846-1915. Schoolmaster. Arthur married Mary Adelaide Green [born in India] in Cheltenham, Gloucester in 1885. Sadly there appear to have been no children, so this family ends here as far as I know. Arthur had a Girls' School, "Cherbourg", in Great Malvern, Worcester for a long time. Jenny Vines, Sydney.

[11]
Elizabeth Worcester married Benjamin1769 Vines, son of Edward1725 and Ann Henly, on 25th May 1795 at the Moravian Church at East Tytherton. He died in 1797.
Elizabeth didn't remarry and died at Malmesbury 1826.
Their son Samuel was born 10th March 1796. He had a sister Elizabeth who was born 20th December 1797.
[12]
Samuel 1796-1892, was the sole benefactor in his mothers 1826 will, Elizabeth Vines of Malmesbury.
In the 1871 Census, there was a Samuel Vines, aged 75, born Brinkworth, Wiltshire, widowed, retired ironmonger, living Milton End, Fairford, Gloucester. He was also there in the 1881 Census, aged 85, but not in the 1891 census (Jenny Vines, Sydney.) He died 1892,aged 96, from the FreeBDM index.