Francis Winter (abt. 1690 - 1743)

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Pratt) Pockridge — married 24 Sep 1737 (to 1743) in Dublin, Ireland

Descendants

Died 1743 at about age 53 in Griffinrath, County Meath, Ireland

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Biography

Francis was the son of Samuel Winter and Mary Pywell.

He was born about 1690 and as a younger son had to find his own living which he apparently did as a woollen draper in Dublin. However he was nearly 50 when his elder brother Sankey died and he inherited the Winter estates. Before 1738 but probably after he inherited in 1736/7, he married Margaret Pratt, the eldest daughter of Benjamin Pratt (1689 - 1771) of Agher and his wife Jane Nugent.

Francis Winter married Mary Pratt.

Children

1. Samuel married Margaret Robbins, youngest daughter of Joseph Robbins, on 4 December 1762,
2. Jane
3. Mary married Nicholas Reynell, of Reynella, co. Westmeath, on 9 August 1764.

He died in 1743.

Probate ^[1]

Francis Winter

Will dated 15 October 1743, proved 1 June 1745

Son - Samuel

Daughters - Jane and Mary

Cousin - Oliver Moore

Wife - Mary [Margaret ?] Winter once, Pockridge

Note: In 1745 Margaret married secondly to a Captain Richard Pockridge but, according to the Winter history, it was an unsatisfactory marriage since “he was a profligate from whom she was obliged to separate”. She died in 1746.

Sources

1. ↑ FindmyPast - Betham's Genealogical Abstracts. Prerogative Wills: (Phillips Mss.) W 1739-1764.

• A Genealogical and Heraldic Histoy of the Commoners of Great Britian and Ireland (Volume 2). [1]
• Stirnet. [2]
• http://www.bomford.net/IrishBomfords/Chapters/Chapter20/Chapter20.htm#20.1.1%C2%A0_The_Early_Winters_