This tree began with a query about a link between Stoke Gabriel in Devon and Australia but it has now been widened with other branches within the UK.
Ray Hingston <houseofh@internode.on.net> and Vivienne Melville <kennyviv@optusnet.com.au> are investigating the link between an Edwin Hingston in Australia, born Stoke, Devon, in 1833. The most likely candidate for the parents is the family shown in Stoke Gabriel in 1851. Edwin is absent from that census but is present in 1841. Edwin drowned in a flood. Intriguingly, there seems to have been another Edwin Hingston at the same place of work. The following summarises what we know at the moment. - CJB
I have assumed here that the William and Mary Ann who were recorded in Australia as the parents of Edwin Hingston at the time of his marriage were the William Hingston and Mary Ann Janes who married at Abbotskerswell in 1821 and lived at Stoke Fleming; the naming of the children with Janes as a middle name is probably persuasive. However, there was another William Hingston who married Mary Ann Skilton at Stoke Damerel in 1811. I know nothing more about this family.
Other Hingston entries in Stoke Gabriel that are not yet connected to this family:-
7 Sep1852 Mary Anne Hingston buried 24 yrs (~1828)
20 Jan 1856 William Launder Hingston of Totnes Union buried, Infant
1841 Census entries at Stoke Gabriel not yet tied in
Hingston Richard, Watton 10 m
Hingstone Jane, ?? Farm 20 f
Their children probably include:-
21. EDWARD PUTTIFEN HINKSON (434 in WEH) bapt at Stoke Gabriel 28 Jun 1761, the son of 14. Richard Hinkson and Christian (Puttifen). He married ANN COLLINGS at Stoke Gabriel on 2 Mar 1783, at which time he was living at Paignton.
They had children:-
22. JOHN HINGSTON (435 in WEH) bapt 12 Aug 1764 at Stoke Gabriel, the son of 14. Richard Hinkson and Christian (Puttifen). He probably married ELIZABETH ELLETT on 17 Jan 1786 at Totnes (DFHS index). John was buried 9 Mar 1845 (age 81). Elizabeth was buried 6 Jun 1847, age 86 (so born c. 1761). In 1841 census family listed at South Down, John aged 77, Elizabeth aged 80.
We only know of one child:-
15. WILLIAM HINGSTON (438 in WEH) was bapt 14 Jul 1771 at Stoke Gabriel, the son of 14. Richard Hinkson and Christian (Puttifen). buried on 25 Jun 1848 (or 9?), He married MARY FABIS on Christmas Day 1793 at Kingsbridge (DFHS index). William shown as 70 in 1841, Mary as 74. Living with them in 1841 was Mary H, aged 46 (a daughter?), Rebekah aged 20 (an unrecorded granddaughter?) and Lantena (?) aged 7, presumably their graddaughter Luttna.
(Fabis is rare - there are only 12 births in FreeBMD - all in Kingsbridge between 1837 and 1873)
Ray believes they had at least three children
There are two complicating entries in the Stoke Gabriel records as sent to WEH by the vicar (which I have checked in my photo of the correspondence). On 19 May 1817 WILLIAM HINGSTON of Paignton married MARY HINGSTON at Stoke Gabriel. I have given them the number HV#23 (see below). There was also the birth of a CHRISTIAN HINKSON, daughter of William and Mary on 8 Oct 1820. Both events predate the marriage of 1. William to Mary Anne Janes in 1821. For two Hingstons to marry is not unknown. WEH's lines assume that Mary was Mary Janes and that William was the youngest son of 21. Edward Puttifen Hingston, but he was unaware of the 1821 marriage in Abbotskerswell and didn't have access to census data. We know that 1. William below was 40 in 1841 so his attribution as the son of 15. William is secure. But who were William and Mary. The other complication is that it looks as though there were two William and Mary families in Stoke Gabriel at the same time, so it is possibble that some of the children assigned to 1. William should instead be assigned to 23. William.
WEH also mentions three children 477 Richard, 478 Thomas and 479 Maria all children of 449 William who may actually be HV23. This needs checking
23. WILLIAM HINGSTON of Paignton married MARY HINGSTON at Stoke Gabriel on 8 Oct 1820. William could be the son of 21. Edward Puttifen Hingston and Ann Collings, as WEH supposed, but who was Mary?
They are assumed to be the parents of:-
26. EDWARD HINGSTON born Paignton in about 1800 (from age in census). He is probably the son of 21. Edward Puttifen Hingston and Ann Collings but he isn't listed by WEH who listed the other children, although he may be the youngest child born after the family moved to Paignton, as mentioned by WEH. He was a Stone Mason. He married MARY KINDRICK at Kingskerswell 5 Feb 1826.
In 1851 at Pembroke Cottage, Hammersmith, Edward Hingston age 51, Stone Mason born Paignton; Mary, 48 born Brixham son Samuel, Stone Mason, 24 born Kingskerswell.
In 1861 they were living at 8 St Anns Road, Kensington (Edward Kingston (sic), age 62 (1799), Stone Mason, born Colyton, Devon; wife Mary 59 born Brixham; Samuel 34, Stone Mason born Kingskerswell. Also living with them was their son Edward and his family.
In the 1871 census at 121 Westbourne Park Road. Edward Hingston 71 (1800) Stone Mason born Paignton; Mary 68 wife; Samuel E 44 Clerk, Kingskerswell.
They had at least two children:-
1. WILLIAM HINGSTON, (449 in WEH but with the wrong children) bapt 9 Sep 1798 at Stoke Gabriel, Devon, the son of 15. William Hingston and Mary (Fabis). William, a labourer, living in the village, who married, on 27 Apr 1821 at Abbotskerswell, MARY ANNE JANES, born about 1801 in Abbots Kerswell (DFHS index where his name is spelt Hinkson). In the 1841 Census, living at Stoke Village shows William 40, Mary 40, Charlotte 15, Mary 10, Edwin 7, James 5, Richard 2, Henry 0. Some, but not all, of their children were recorded in the Stoke Gabriel parish records. Mary Anne appears to have died in the Union Workhouse at Totnes and was buried at Stoke Fleming 1 Jun 1856 aged 55 years, which would imply the family had fallen on hard times.
20. JOHN HINGSTON (450 in WEH who does not mention his wife or children) was bapt 8 Mar 1801 at Stoke Gabriel, probably the son of 15. William Hingston and Mary (Fabis) and married SARAH (presumably STAMP) but we don't know where. In 1851 John was a miller, living in Bristol, (how old?) born Stoke Gabriel, living with wife Sarah (how old, where born?) and daughter Sarah Jane.
Possible children:-
24. JAMES HINGSTON, (462 in WEH but with different parents) born16 Dec 1806, the son of 15. William Hinkson and Mary (Fabis), and baptised 4 Jan 1807 at Stoke Fleming,. WEH says he married MARY ANN HOOPER of Brixham (no obvious marriage in FreeBMD). WEH had attached this family to 1. William rather than 15. William but the dates don't work.
WEH said his children were (with details not given by WEH).
27. EDWARD HINGSTON born about 1830 in Plymouth, the son of 26. Edward Hingston and Mary (Kindrick). He was a Carpenter. He married SARAH LEAKE (or LAKE) at Brentford Mar Qtr 1851.
In the 1861 they were living at 8 St Anns Road, Kensington with his parents; he was 30, a Carpenter, born Plymouth, with his wife Sarah age 32 (1829) born Norwood, Surrey and their daughter Mary, 7 born Hammersmith.
In the 1871 census 121 Westbourne Park Road (same address as his parents but a different household) Edward Hungston jun. 40 Carpenter born Plymouth; Sarah 41 Middlesex Norwood Green; Louise 8 London. They were still in the same address in 1881. Edward Hingston 50 (1831) Carpenter born Plymouth; Sarah 52 born Surrey Norwood; Louisa 18 Dressmaker Kensington; Mary mother 76 Brixham Devon.
Probable children:-
18. WILLIAM FABENS HINGSTON (454 in WEH) baptised 30 Dec 1821 at Stoke Gabriel, the son of 1. William Hingston and Mary Anne (Janes). He married MARY ANN CHURCHWARD on 4 Feb 1848 at Stoke Gabriel but there appear to have been no children from this marriage and Mary Ann seems to have died Sep Qtr 1852 in Totnes District.
He may be the William Hingston, age 27, Able Seaman Foretop; hurt on 2 Apr 1850. Loss of power of left arm from enlargement of elbow joint, pension certificate not granted. He may also be the William Hingston, Patient, Unmarried 28 (1823), 2nd Captain A:Guard RN, born Modbury Devon listed in the 1851 Census at the Naval Hospital Haslar. (The Census would have been almost a year after the date of the injury and the ranks don't match, nor does the place of birth so there is scope for confusion.)
William married, secondly, MARY JANE JANES on 2 Jan 1853 at St Georges, East Stonehouse. This may have been a cousin marriage because his mother was a Janes. In the 1861 census at Tuckenhay Village: Mary J Hingston, 26 (so she would only have been 18 at marriage if this reading is correct), servant, husband at sea, born Cornworthy. William son, 6 John Janes Hingston, son, 3 Samuel Hingston, 2 mths (Note, living next door was William Janes, 66, a papermaker, born Abbotskerswell and his wife Mary (possibly a link to HV1)).
The children of William Fabens Hingston and Mary Jane were:-
2. EDWIN HINGSTON (460 in WEH) was born 7 Nov 1833 and christened 24 Nov 1833 at Stoke Gabriel, Devon, the son of 1. William Hingston and Mary Anne (Janes). Supposedly emigrated to Australia in about 1853, but not living with his parents in Devon in the 1851 census and not recorded in Australia until his marriage, in 1855, to MARGARET BYRNES (da. of Edmund Byrnes and Ellen Byrnes, born abt 1833 in Cashell, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.). They married on 18 Feb 1855 at R C Church Warrnambool Vic Aust. Edwin was an engine driver at a saw mills.
They had 11 children, all born at Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, unless otherwise stated. Edwin died 9 Sep 1870 in a flood at the Black`s River, Panmure while trying to save equipment at the sawmill of his employer, Williams and Co.
"A fatal accident occured on Friday morning at the Panmure Saw Mills, to Mr Edwin Hingston, who was employed there as engine-driver. Mr Peter Duff, the manager of the works, states that at 10.40 a.m. Hingston went to him and said that the tressels were being shifted with the floating timber, and in order to save the pump he suggested that the rod should be thrown out of gear. Hingston asked that Thomas Trust should go with him. They went in a flat-bottomed boat, and as they were steadily going out into the main stream, Mr Duff asked them to throw ashore the end of a rope which was coiled in the bottom of the boat. Trust attempted to do so, but unfortunately the boat capsized and they were thrown into the river (Emu Creek)(also known as Black`s River). Trust, who is a good swimmer, managed to save himself with great difficulty, and Hingston, who could not swim, was carried right into the current and went down. No possible aid could be rendered, and the unfortunate occurence took place within sight of Mrs Hingston, who saw her husband sink; she gave a heart-rending shriek and fell down as if dead. Prompt aid was speedily obtained from neighbours and she shortly afterwards recovered, though her grief was almost inconsolable. In a note from Mr Duff dated 4 p.m. on Saturday, addressed to Williams and Co, he remarks "To give you an idea of the height of Black`s River I may state, that it`s upwards of twenty feet above the summer level, and a strong current going through our waggon track; it is roaring like the sea, indeed as far as the eye can reach it is nothing but water everywhere. The Panmure Bridge was washed away at 7.40 am to-day. The tressels, spout, pump-rod, &c., are all washed away". A carpenter named James Milne, employed in erecting Mr Anderson`s new store came off at once, along with Patrick McCann, to bring the news of Hingston`s death to Warrnambool, and not being able to cross the Cudgee Creek they went round Craigie Burn and Framlingham. On the following morning they returned, taking Mrs Hingston`s eldest son with them. They arrived on the other side of Panmure but the bridge being down were unable to get access to the Saw Mills, and returned to Warrnambool. They left again yesterday morning. The deceased had been many years in the employ of Williams and Co., and was well known as Charlie Hingston this designation being given him in the timber yard as another of the same name worked for the firm. He has left six children, with the widow to mourn his untimely end. When the body is recovered his remains will be followed to the grave by the members of the order of Odd Fellows, amongst whom Hingston was much esteemed."
The intriguing thing here is the reference to another Edwin Hingston working at the saw mills, but this may have referred to one of his sons.
Viviene Melville writes:- "Life does not appear to have been kind to Edwin's widow Margaret. Most of the information comes from articles in the "Warrnambool Examiner" of the time. After the death of Edwin in 1870, the local Order of Oddfellows, of which he had been a much respected member, opened a Trust Fund for Margaret and the children. Over 100 pounds was raised...enough to buy some land and a cottage for them. Three years later in 1873, Margaret remarried, to a Jacob Wormald (1836-1892) at Warrnambool. She would have been about 40 and he was about 3 years younger. (From "Pioneer Register" at Warrnambool FHS). However on the Certificate for that marriage both of their ages are given as 37. They were married at Margaret's residence in Raglan St, Warrnambool. Jacob had 3 living children from his first marriage and Margaret had 7 from hers. Margaret's parents were named as Edmund Burns and Ellen Burns, the same names as on her first Marriage Certificate to Edwin Hingston, but different to the names listed on her Death Cert 3 years later. This second marriage was conducted by a Congregational Minister not a Catholic priest.
The marriage may not have been a great success as she died three years after that, in 1876 of a "serious (??) apoplexy caused by drunkeness" There was an inquest held into her death. On her Death Cert it says that she'd been in the colony for 28 years which would put her arrival at about 1848 when she would have been approx 15. I haven't yet found out what happened to the land and the cottage in Raglan St, Warrnambool, but I'm pretty sure it didn't go to any of her boys because there has been a story in my family for ages about the boys being split up and sent to orphanages.
The children listed as surviving her were : Edward 20 or 21(the numbers are very blurred), Charles 18 (he would have turned 18 the month after she died), Margaret 17, William 15, David 13, George 11, Ernest 7 and Benjamin 5. (Margaret was supposed to have died aged 2??)
At the Inquest, the husband Jacob Wormald denied that there had been any violence or foul play between himself and his wife. The doctor's report suggested that Margaret had been a habitual drunkard. Also in the Inquest there is a statement by her son David, saying that over the weekend of her death he had been sent out to fetch more alcohol. It seems that Jacob, Margaret and a friend had had a fairly debauched weekend, and on the Monday morning young David had found her dead in the back room of the house. He also refers to sharing a room in the house with his 3 brothers, whom I'm assuming would be the youngest ones, George, Ernest and Benjamin. This suggests that maybe the older children had already left home.
On her Death Cert. Margaret's parent's names are given as James and Mary Byrne, but on her Marriage Cert they are Edmund and Ellen, which is more likely to be correct since she herself would have been the informant. Interestingly, on her Death Cert, her first husband's name is recorded as Charles, not Edwin. This ties in with the comment about him being called "Charlie" at the Panmure sawmill, too. Perhaps his name was actually Charles Edwin."
16. RICHARD HINGSTON (463 in WEH) bapt. 6 May 1838 at Stoke Gabriel, the son of 1. William Hinkson and Mary Anne (Janes). He married ESTHER BASSET in Marylebone Sep Qtr 1861. She had been born in Chatteris in Cambridgeshire in about 1843 although I can't find her in FreeBMD. They seem to have had several children in many different places. In the 1881 Census at Whitmoor Farm, Uffculme. Richard Hingston 42, Farmer of 18 acres, born Stoke Gabriel; Esther, 38 born Chatteris, Cambs; Harry, 15, Scholar, Middlesex, Kentish Town; Mary Ann, 13, Scholar, Middlesex, Ealing?; John Wm 8 Yorkshire Earlzeaton; Maria 5 Rutlandshire, Glaston; Eli 2 Africa?, Middleton, Somerset East; Ralph 7m Uffculme. Most of these children don't seem to be listed in FreeBMD.
(From a query in Odds and Ends #22 submitted by Annette Moy). [Richard Hingston (HV16) was born in Germany (date unknown). He married Esther and had at least one child, Harry (b.1867)(HV25) in Sth. Africa who married Elizabeth Hickman in 1896 at Fulham, London. He (Harry in FreeBMD) died bet. Oct - Dec. 1915 in Uxbridge, London aged 48. He was an engine driver on the Flying Scotsman between London & Edinburgh. I have children of Harry & Elizabeth Hickman, but know little more than that. This does not agree in detail with what we have here.]
Children:-
19. WILLIAM HOLWILL HINGSTON was born 19 Apr 1854 at Ashprington to 18. William Hingston and Mary Jane (Janes). He was a seaman (RN or Merchant Navy?). In 1881 he was aboard the "Lively" in Kent. If this is HMS Lively she was a wooden paddle despatch vessel launched in 1870 and wrecked in 1883 near Stornoway. He married (as Kingston according to FreeBMD) MARTHA FRENCH Dec Qtr 1881 at Hungerford District. In the 1901 census (where?): William, 46, Naval Pensioner (Born c 1855) Ashprington and Martha, 40, ( born c 1861) Chisbury, Wiltshire.
Children:-
3. CHARLES EDWIN HINGSTON. Born on 6 Sep 1858 in Warrnambool, Victoria, the son of 2. Edwin Hingston and Margaret (Byrnes). Charles Edwin died in Prahran, Victoria, on 11 Mar 1930; he was 71. Buried on 12 Mar 1930 in Cheltenham Memorial Park. Occupation: Carrier/Driver (On Death Cert.). Religion: R.C. On 29 Mar 1880 when Charles Edwin was 21, he married Sarah Ann BELLAIRS, daughter of William BELLAIRS & Bridget MELICAN, in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne. Born on 24 Sep 1858 in Woodford, Victoria. Sarah Ann died in North Caulfield, in 1947; she was 88.
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7. ERNEST JONES HINGSTON. Born in 1869 in Panmure, Victoria, the son of 2. Edwin Hingston and Margaret (Byrnes). On 24 Aug 1892 when Ernest Jones was 23, he married EMILY MASON, daughter of George T Masin & Sarah McCormack, in "Merton" High St, Armadale, Victoria. Born on 21 Jul 1867 in Hobart, Tasmania. Emily died in Malvern, Australia, in 1957; she was 89. Ernest Jones died in Malvern, Australia, in 1927; he was 58. Buried on 10 Aug 1927 in Cheltenham Memorial Park. Occupation: Coachman (Marr.Cert). Religion: C Of E ( At Time Of Death).
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8. BENJAMIN ALBERT HINGSTON. Born on 5 Mar 1871 in Warrnambool, Victoria, the son of 2. Edwin Hingston and Margaret (Byrnes). In May 1891 when Benjamin Albert was 20, he married CATHERINE FRANCES EUPHEMIA KELLY, daughter of James Kelly & Catherine Hyland, in Warrnambool, Victoria. Born on 13 Jul 1872 in Melbourne, Australia. Catherine Frances Euphemia died in 1943; she was 70.
They had the following children:
25. HARRY HINGSTON, the son of 16. Richard Hingston and Esther (Basset). In 1891 he was boarding at Birchdaleview(?), Stockton Heath in Cheshire and a General Labourer age 22, born Gospel Oak in Middlesex. This would be the time when the Manchester Canal (opened 1893) was under construction and this is very close to the new locks at Latchford. He is probably the Harry who married ELIZABETH JANE HICKMAN at Fulham Dec 1895. In 1901 they are living at 32 Russell Road, Leyton; he is described as a Labourer (Bricklayer). Their daughter Irene is with them but not young Harry.
Possible children:-
17. JOHN WILLIAM HINGSTON born Mar Qtr 1873 in Earlzeaton, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, the son of 16. Richard Hingston and Esther (Basset). In 1891 he was lodging at 36 Hayes Rd, Cadishead and was described as 18 and an Engine Cleaner. This is during the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal which is very close. He married JANE ARSTALL at West Ham Dec 1893. She was born at Barton, Lancs in Dec Qtr 1872. In the 1901 Census. 28 Green Lane, Irlam, Lancs .John W 28 (1873) General Labourer born Earlseaton Yorkshire; Jane 28 Fustian Cutter, born Cadishead Lancs; Richard Arstall son 8 Cadishead, Harry 7 Cadishead, Gladys E 2 Cadishead; Eveline N 0 Cadishead.
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