“Wynkefelde the Saxon held honour and fee, ere William the Norman came over the sea.” Ancient Suffolk England Rhyme

Vol. XXX No. 1 (112th Issue) Winter / February 2016 “Join me in New Orleans!”

In This Issue:

• Upcoming: New Orleans 30th Annual Meeting (Flyer)

• 2015 Annual Meeting Report- about Chicago Meeting

• 2016 Membership Dues Notice

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• A Book Review - Wingfield College & its Patrons from the Acting President… • Wingfield Event News - Wingfield Sculling Report I am pleased to be serving WFS as the new Acting President since 1 December 2015. For those • Wingfield Memoir who wonder why I am “Acting” President, there are two reasons: WFS Bylaws state no - An Eton Education: President can succeed himself as President, so in order to serve a full term, I must serve out George A. R. Wingfield John’s term as Acting President; also, there is a ceremony that must take place in order to pass on the title of Lord of the Manor. This will be conducted at our upcoming annual meeting. • Wingfield Ancestors - Col. James H. Wingfield The 30th Annual Meeting will be at New Orleans, LA, Friday—Sunday, June 3-5, 2016--the • Wingfield Places French Quarter, Jackson Square, Café du Monde and Beignets, Jambalaya and Muffulettas, Jazz - Sherborne Castle and the WFS! We haven’t been there since 2002, and our busy Meeting Coordinators Barbara Cortino and Jim Nowak have finalized details, and the board has voted. See Registration Form. • In Memoriam: There will be free time allowed for experiencing New Orleans. A - John Kenelm Wingfield Digby - Diane “Skippy” Wingfield major new attraction is the National World War II museum. It has been designated by the U. S. Congress as America’s official WWII Museum. Powerful images and extraordinary artifacts A Reminder: bring to life the American Spirit, the courage, teamwork and sacrifice that won the war. From the 1930s, prelude to war to the Normandy Invasion and the battles in the Pacific, visitors trace Please send your America’s role in both the war and on the Home Front. WFS dues for year Samuel C. Batsell, Esq. Come for a weekend! See you in New Orleans! 2016. Acting President ______Wingfield Family Society Winter / February 2016 Issue Page 1

______WFS 2015 Annual Meeting Report Chicago Annual Meeting: A Great Success! { 13-16 August, 2015 } by Jocelyn Wingfield of England, International Vice President

The 2015 annual meeting was in Chicago (meaning “onions or The President reported that the directors had approved: (1) garlic” in the local language) which is a beautiful city of 116 Jocelyn Wingfield writing to 59 Wingfields identified from the sky-scrapers. We had great accommodation at the Hilton internet, including 42 American Wingfields; and, (2) Jocelyn Garden Inn in Des Plaines, just a seven-minute drive from Wingfield, Vance Wingfield, and Mary Wingfield were to O’Hare airport. The meeting, slickly organized by Meeting produce a draft “small brochure” on the WFS for approval by Coordi-nators, VP Barbara Cortino and Jim Nowak, supported directors for sending to all Wingfields world-wide, especially in by Wally Goodman and Mary & John Wingfield, provided gift Canada and Austrailia. packs which were hugely enjoyed by the nearly 40 WFS members. Webmaster Vance Wingfield showed the meeting his new Facebook/blogs/Twitter/ and YouTube pages with its 23 videos.

Burwell Wingfield proposed that the WFS hire a PR professional “member recruiter” and it was agreed that this would be considered. He felt the WFS should concentrate on the Wingers Program (family info for members under 18), produced by Jocelyn Wingfield to encourage more teenager-interest in the WFS, but Jocelyn felt we should concentrate on approaches to parents aged 25-45. The President read a report from Maria Wingfield Butler about the Edward Maria Wingfield (EMW)

Memorial Fund at Preservation On Thursday, August 13, after the Directors’ Meeting, about Virginia (PV). The “principal” 20 of us had a delicious giant pizza meal at Giordano’s, not far now stands at $177,792 and the from where Sam Batsell attended university and did his first interest gained thereon (which is legal job. The President John D. Wingfield, presided over the the only money touchable) is meeting. Sam Batsell was elected Vice President. $3,704. PV Secretary Elizabeth S. Kostelny’s letter stated that On Friday, the President reported that Newsletter Editor the latter sum would be spent on Burwell Wingfield and wife, Wafa, were moving to Amman, Edward Maria Wingfield education about early Jordan, for two years – and Burwell confirmed that he would be 1550-1631 Jamestowne and would describe editing the newsletter from there, just as before, four sides of EMW as “a Soldier, investor and Jamestowne’s first president”. historical material from Jocelyn Wingfield (with Wally Goodman improving images where necessary), and with the President John Wingfield stated that the President of the newsletter publication by Director Mary Wingfield in SD. The Jamestowne Rediscovery Foundation, British professor and President proposed that he appoint member, Elizabeth Jane author James Horn, had reported that four graves buried in 1608- “Janie” Sherman of Staunton, Virginia, a well-qualified 1610 were discovered in the chancel of Historic Jamestowne’s professional genealogist and editor to be Newsletter Copy church. They were identified as: the Rev. Robert Hunt Editor. It was unanimously approved. (recruited by EMW), Captain William West, Ferdinando Wainwright and Gabriel Archer. Archer’s grave contained a two Mary Wingfield, reported: (1) that she will shortly produce the and a half inch silver reliquary, traditionally associated with 2016 Roster, and (2) that WFS membership is down from 2013 Catholics, thus, giving suspecting Archer may have been a when it was over 400 members, now 282. It was thought that Spanish spy. much of this regrettable decline was due to old age.

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Burwell Wingfield proposed that the WFS present a Scholar- Jocelyn Wingfield mentioned five Wingfield “Chicago area” ship for Native Americans. It was agreed to investigate this. connections: (1) Lt. David Wingfield, Royal Navy, who was mapping the Great Lakes before the War of 1812 and who The President reported on the 2013-2014 church projects in UK: named Wingfield Point, Wingfield Basin and Wingfield Harbour (1) The stolen memorial brass from Letheringham church had after himself. (2) Walter Clopton Wingfield, inventor of lawn been located in a junk shop and was returned; (2) The GPR tennis, and who was the President of the England-based Cordon (Ground Penetrating Radar) search at Tickencote graveyard for Rouge dining club (ca.1890s-1912). (3) Some Wingfield the remains of the Tickencote Wingfield progenitors of the immigrants of German origin who came to Wisconsin, and Virginia Line is about to begin, the delay due to the death of Chicago in ca. 1900, at about the time that “The Wingfield member, Hugh Wingfield-Hayes and an increase in costs. The Waltz” was published there by Otto Lundell at North Clark latter will be covered by Ann Wingfield-Hayes and John Parry- Street. (4) The 4th great grandson of John & Mary Wingfield nee Wingfield, each contributing $100. Hudson of Virginia, Fred S. Calvin Wingfield, the famous spelling reformer, lived in Chicago 1928-1940. (5) Jocelyn Virginia Wingfield reported that the famous Iowa-born boogie- mentioned that his elder daughter, Serena Poncia of NSW, woogie piano and organ player, Sid Wingfield (Sidney James Australia, has been, since 2007, active in getting Chicago’s 1999 Wingfield), formerly of Dick’s Last Resort, Chicago, but now invention of R.E.A.D. or “Reader Education Assistance Dogs”– of Sarasota, FL, had agreed to play at this 2015 Chicago meeting called “Story Dogs” in Australia --transferred to other at a reduced fee, but this fell through. states. Primary schoolchildren with reading difficulties Jocelyn Wingfield read a message from member, Ian Wingfield, apparently excel when reading to dogs! (See You Tube: Story about Tom Mor, the New World Tapestry producer of the Dogs - Serena Poncia). world’s largest tapestry—24 panels and 267 feet—which took Jocelyn Wingfield apologized for not yet organizing the 20 years to complete. Tom is producing a tapestry on the presentations to Historic Jamestowne of some items, including Mayflower, which set out on September 6th, 1620, from among others, a copy of the 400th Anniversary Service Sheet for Plymouth, England, some 13 years after Jamestowne was “A Service in Memory of the Life, Death and Resurrection of founded in 1607. the First President of Jamestown Colony, Cradle of America, Edward Maria Wingfield (1550-1631) and of the first colonists in VA (1607),” 28 April 2007.

It was agreed that the items would be passed to Wally Goodman for posting to Maria Wingfield Butler, and that Jocelyn would arrange a letter to Daniel Hawkes, stating Maria and/or Greg Wingfield would present these WFS items at a later date. Several members said that they would like to go on an England & Ireland tour and Stephen Chanko and Jocelyn Wingfield agreed to investigate further and to report to the President. The Raffle & Auction – which contained several rare prints of “Wingfield places” like Pendennis Castle and Windsor’s Garter Chapel - made $632 (Raffle: $164 and Auction $468) and the Wingfield Store took in $192.

On Saturday, Barabara Cortino and Jim Nowak arranged a Wendella Boat Tour of the Chicago River (the first river in the world to be reversed) with, in brilliant sunshine, views of amazing architecture, such as the 1,454-ft Willis Tower (formerly, the Sears Tower) and the great Merchandise Mart Editor’s note: After contacting Tom Mor, he told me his next Building, with a fascinating commentary. We also viewed by project is not the Mayflower, but the 1619 Berkeley Plantation which is to be stitched in America. The 1607 Panel is where our (Continued on Page 11) Edward Maria Wingfield is mentioned. EJS

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______Wingfield Ancestors

A New Orleans Connection to Wingfields: Soldiers in the Civil War, 1850s-1870s Col. James H. Wingfield of VA and LA (1st Article of 3 in a Series) By Jocelyn R. Wingfield, WFS Historian

On 5 Oct 1826, James H. Wingfield, was born in Norfolk, VA. Forno and Capt. J. H. Wingfield to report to Grivot’s office to Twenty-six years later in 1852, James H. Wingfield was in New select a camp site with water along the New Orleans, Jackson Orleans enrolled as “Master” of the riverboat, Iroquois1. The and Great Northern Railroad.4 Then, a Confederate company following year he was in Nashville, TN (2 Aug 1853), and again called, the 3rd Regt. LA Calvary, “Wingfield’s Cavalry” was in 20 Apr 1854. formed and in September 1864, Col. James H. Winfield (sic) recognized the 9th LA Battalion and designated them the 3rd Two months later, on 19 June 1854, there is a New Orleans Regiment LA Volunteer Cavalry. The wife named is: Mary A. death of an Eliza Wingfield, 61, native of Richmond, VA, born Wingfield, thus, providing proof of the right Wingfield. 1793. She is believed to be James’ mother. She is buried in the Wingfield Family Tomb at Metairie Cemetery, Central Avenue, New Orleans. An Eliza Wingfield is found in the 1850 census at Rusk Co, TX with two males: F. A. Wingfield, 35, and Thomas H. Wingfield, 26. All three were born in Virginia.

On 13 Nov 1856, James married Mary Ann Decker.2 The next piece of a paper trail was in 1859. On 1 Jul of that year, two land purchases were made at Greenburg, LA, land office made by James H. Wingfield: one for 195 acres and another for 95 acres both in St. Helena Parish, LA. Interestingly, on the same date, a Mary A. Wingfield purchased four more tracts, also in St. Helena Parish, LA. [Editor’s note: A Parish is like a County in other states.]

The family was found in the 1860 Census: Greenburg, St. Helena Parish, LA as: Unidentified 3rd Louisiana Calvary Regt, CSA (aka Wingfield’s Cavalry.)5 • J. H. Wingfield, male, age 33, farmer, value of real estate: $21,000; value of personal estate: $4,000, born in LA. Company E was organized by members of the 4th LA Inf. and • Mary Ann Wingfield, age 31, born in NY. was active in the Baton Rouge area. Ten companies (1,850 men) were commanded by Col. James H. Wingfield. Next door neighbors are shown as: Roberta B. “Waingfield,”3 female, age 32, value of real estate: $10,000, born LA; and In 1870, James H. Wingfield owned Waddill Plantation, George K. Wingfield, age 11, born in LA. Hernando, LA. He was one of the oldest merchants and firemen in New Orleans. He was connected with the Jackson Railroad The next genealogical records found were military ones. There and at the time of his death on 2 Apr 18746 he was passenger is a Capt. James H. Wingfield serving in the 4th LA Inf agent of the Iron Mountain Railroad. and was buried in the [Infantry] Regiment; also, a James H. Wingfield in the 27th LA (Continued on Page 11) Volunteer Inf., again, no date. On 9 May 1861, Governor Moore, through Adjutant General Grivot, ordered Lt. Col. Henry

5 Websites: http://thecivilwarparlor.tumblr.com/post 1 The Iroquois was a side-wheel packet boat, wood hull, built at New /75017908670/unidentified-3rd-louisiana-calvary-regiment-csa Albany, IN, 1847. 485 tons. 230 length x 30 width x 7.8 draft. Ran Wingfield’s Cavalry Regt was organized from four companies; and members.tripod.com/j_richard/18th_history_camps_forts.html Louisville-New Orleans. Ran Nashvile-New Orleans in latter years. 6 2 LA Marriage Records 1846-80, p. 678, n. 847. Find a Grave.com #70830696, obituary. 3 Indication of the southern pronunciation of Wingfield. 4 Website: www.confederateheros.org/LA/Corp. Albert G. Fussell.

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______Wingfield Memoir

An Eton Education by George Wingfield of England and Iowa, USA Naturally Eton has changed considerably during the last 575 years. When Jocelyn and I were there the school had about

1,200 pupils all of whom boarded in the 25 boys’ houses each run by a housemaster (or “beak”) assisted by a matron who was known as a “dame”. We were both in the same house, but only briefly since, being five years older than me, he was very senior and soon left the school. At the time I was merely a “new boy”.

Seven years earlier, at a time when I had never been away from home, I was chosen to be the classroom companion of Prince William who was about to be educated at home by a private governess, Miss Ramirez. She had been engaged as governess by William’s father, the Duke of Gloucester, who was the younger brother of George VI, then King of England. (Americans may remember the 2011 movie The King’s Speech which was all about George VI and the problems he had with stammering.)

The duke’s home was Barnwell Manor about seven miles from where my parents lived in the village of Elton. The Gloucesters’ establishment at Barnwell was rather like Downton Abbey though this manor was not quite as imposing as Downton (which in real life is Highclere Castle). As one might imagine, shy little George Wingfield, aged 7, was quite overwhelmed by all this grandeur when he was first delivered to Barnwell to begin lessons with the prince in 1949. He bolted, running down the drive at full tilt intent on making his escape, but was pursued and caught by two footmen closely followed by the duke’s rather portly butler.

An inauspicious start but it seems that I must have grown used to moving in such rarefied social –perhaps indeed ducal-- circles and also I did of course benefit from this rather remarkable education. Like me, Prince William went on to Eton College Young Jocelyn and George Wingfield at Eton College when he was 13. Many years later he was sadly killed in a plane crash during an air race in 1972. This photo taken 60 years ago in the School Yard at Eton shows my brother Jocelyn Wingfield (WFS International VP) and me, That was the year that my elder son, Rupert, was born and in due both attired in formal school dress, standing by the statue of course, he was sent off to Eton to be educated. It was still a Eton College’s founder, King Henry VI. He founded the school boys-only school and remains so to this day. Several other in 1440 “to educate 70 poor boys” who would go on to Kings Wingfields, mainly those from the Barrington branch of the College Cambridge which he founded a year later. Henry was family over the last 150 years, have gone to Eton and some of an almost saintly king --quite unlike King Henry VIII a hundred their names are carved in the wooden paneling of Upper School years later who was better known for having six wives and which is on one side of School Yard. Others are listed on the beheading two of them --plus various other supposed traitors. school’s various war memorials having fought and perhaps died in World War I or World War II. Eton has educated 19 British

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prime ministers and generations of the aristocracy, and it has Ireland seemed like a land stuck in a time warp fifty years behind been referred to as, “the chief nurse of England’s statesmen”. the bustling modernity of, say, London. A recently published The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, was educated book whose front cover is seen here, Portrait of an Era –Trinity at Eton and, of course, today’s Prince William, plus his brother College Dublin in the 1960s, tells some of this story and contains Prince Harry, were also educated there. many photos of Trinity with its undergraduates and other characters. Although Eton calls itself a college, it is not the same as the university colleges that are usually attended by students in the Life in TCD was certainly unlike Eton, and there were few Irish UK at about age 18. Boys at Eton are aged roughly from 13 to country houses left like Downton. (Incidentally, that’s me on 18--which in the US would be middle school and high school the cover turning to the camera.) age. In the US the college years are the ones that cost dearly and often require expensive student loans. In Britain the major After getting my degree from TCD, I returned to London and took expense of educating children privately is funding attendance at a job with IBM just when computers were being developed that an independent school (previously called a “public school”) like proved to be essential to every aspect of modern business. I Eton. Today there is fierce competition in regard to getting worked in various capacities with IBM over the years and was one’s son selected for Eton, and neither noble birth nor having a sent to the US for the first time in 1988. Although I’d watched dad who’s a billionaire will necessarily help. Dallas --with Larry Hagman’s J.R.Ewing-- on TV in Britain before I arrived in Dallas, landing in Texas then was like landing on another planet! But I loved America and even Texas grew on me. I’ve returned dozens of times since then and travelled to nearly every US state.

Jan and George Wingfield of Iowa and England

Currently I live in Ottumwa, Iowa, with my second wife, Jan, for half of the year. We return to my house in Somerset, England, for four months during the summer --besides travelling to Ireland, Scotland, France and Italy.

In September 2014, the next photo (page 7) was taken beside that statue of King Henry in Eton School Yard. It shows my George Wingfield, turning, on far right. son, Rupert, together with his son, James--then aged 8. I’m the one on the right. Maybe --in a few years time--young James At age 19, I went up to university at Trinity College Dublin Wingfield might gain admission to Eton and then, perhaps, (TCD) where I studied Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and follow in his father’s and his grandfather’s footsteps. Math). That too was quite an adventure and back in 1961

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Elizabeth Jane “Janie” Sherman Editor

Robert Carr Editor Emeritus Three Wingfield Generations: Rupert, James and George Wallace “Wally” Goodman Photo Technology George A. R. Wingfield Copy Editor at Eton College, Windsor, England. Mary E. Wingfield Publishing & Mailing ------

WFS OFFICERS Samuel C. Batsell, Esq. Acting President John D. Wingfield Immediate Past President Stephen D. Chanko Vice President John D. Wingfield Treasurer Barbara C. Cortino Secretary Jocelyn J. R. Wingfield International Vice President

WFS DIRECTORS (Elected) Years 2014-2016 Years 2015-2017 Barbara Wingfield R. Ian Wingfield Rosalyn Dowling Greg H. Wingfield Billy Wingfield E. Burwell Wingfield Robert W. Wingfield Florence Foster Nixon

WFS DIRECTORS (Appointed) Archbiship Mark A. DuBois Chaplain Dale Ruf Chaplain Emeritus Vance G. Wingfield Computer Vance G. Wingfield Webmaster Mary E. Wingfield Publishing Mary E. Wingfield Membership Wallace “Wally” Goodman Photography Jocelyn J. R. Wingfield Historian WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! H. Wingfield Hughes Wingfield Store Samuel C. Batsell, Esq. Genealogy Karen Wingfield Link Staunton, VA Mary E. Wingfield Reunion Registrar Greg H. Wingfield Preservation Virginia Liaison M/M Robert Cameron Jordan Hardy, VA Barbara C. Cortino Meeting Coordinator Jim Nowak Meeting Coordinator Whitney Suzanne Jordan Staunton, VA *Extras of this issue: $4.00 for members.

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______A Book Review By Stephen D. Chanko, WFS Vice-President

From the Book Preface: “The foundations at Wingfield were book that was edited by Peter Bloore and Edward Martin established by Sir John de Wingfield; a veteran of battles…, called, Wingfield College and its Patrons that we and…in service of Edward the Black Prince. The building of a felt our members might be interested in purchasing. On our chantry college, new church and battlemented castle was a behalf Peter Bloore (current owner of what was once called serious bid for power and reputation by the knightly Wingfields Wingfield College in Wingfield, Suffolk County, England) and their de la Pole descendants. In five generations the family contacted the publisher about a special discount for us. Both went from being merchants in Hull to making viable bids for the Jocelyn and I have already purchased the book during our recent throne of England. No other family of that period rose so fast visit, and based on my limited review, it looks well researched and became so powerful--even arranging the marriages of kings and appropriately sourced, and very interesting. and queens.” Total Cost: $54 plus shipping, $5.95 = $59.95 when NOTE: During Jocelyn’s and my visit to Wingfield on 5 you use the discount code: 15777. December 2015, we learned about a recently published

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______Wingfield Event News

In the Men’s Wingfields, the wind seemed less than for the women until the scullers got to the Eyot where it blew up badly causing Laurence Wells to fall in, but he righted his boat and the scullers returned to the center for the last part. Tim Richards, the 2013 & 2014 defending champion deserved his win of a tough race. Sir Redgrave presented Tim with a date bar to add to his medal from last year and referred to the “scullers’ craft” the competitors had demonstrated today.

In 2014, Tim Koch, Wingfield Sculls Champion in 1991 and 1992, said of the Wingfields, “It’s a fantastic race because it’s a great test of physical ability…of fitness and strength, and also of technique. The Tideway can throw all sorts of things at you in terms of conditions, wind, stream and so on, so it is a real test of watermanship…It’s not a short spring, you’ve got to get it right and keep getting it right…As an oarsman, it’s fantastic to have your name on the Wingfield Sculls Trophy. The look back Sir Steve Redgrave , Tim Richards & over the years of racing and you can see that you have joined a Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne with Greg Searle rather impressive list of scullers…I quite like the fact that it’s (Courtesy of TimKoch/heartbosting.com) not a world renowned race…it’s a peculiarly English thing The 175th single sculling race for the pair of silver sculls really…It’s a great race to take part in and a great race to win, of presented first in 1830 by Henry Colsell Wingfield “to be held course.” by the best” as long as they agreed to race on his birthday The WFS has been involved with the Wingfield Sculls for the “forever,” took place on Putney to Mortlake course on 12 last 10 years, and in years past presented the Wingfield Sculls November 2015. Henry’s birthday was actually on 10 August, Committee with a new giant flag. We also funded and presented but thanks to the organizing committee of former winners, at a silver sculls trophy—based on Henry Wingfield’s original least the forever part has remained. 1830 Trophy—for the revived Women’s Wingfields. The 9th Women’s Wingfields, a revival of the Women’s Amateur The closest living relative to the Wingfield Sculls founder, Rowing Championship, first raced in 1927, was revived under Henry Wingfield, is Clare Morton, who is the 3rd Great the Wingfield’s banner in 2007 with the support of the Wing- Granddaughter of Henry’s Uncle, John Wingfield. Clare field Family Society. The committee of former Champions was presented both the trophy to the winner of the 2007 race, Elise out in force with Sir Steve Redgrave (above), five-times winner Laverick, (and a framed montage of extracts about the “Life of of the Wingfield Sculls in 1985-89, umpiring. Sir Redgrave, the Wingfield Sculls Founder” to Wade Hall-Craggs, the CBE, won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from Honorary Secretary of the Wingfield Sculls Committee. See 1984-2000, three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfield_Sculls World Rowing Championships golds. Date Winner Club Time In the Women’s Wingfields, Mel Wilson, the 2014 winner, was unable to defend her title due to a bad back. As Champion of the 2011 A. Watkins Leader Club (record) 20.55 Thames, Mel, now a doctor, was looking forward to being challenged by the two rowers from “the GB under-23 Double 2012 B. Rodford Gloucester Rowing Club 23.32 Scull: Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne (Reading) and Georgia Francis 2013 I. Walsh London Rowing Club 21.44 (Imperial). It was a close fought battle. Greg Searle presented Mathilda with her silver medal stating what a special place the 2014 M. Wilson Imperial College 21.31 race had in his career when he won the Wingfields in 1998- 2000. 2015 M. Hodgkins-Byrne Reading Rowing Club 21.54

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______In Memoriam

father, Kenelm Simon Frederick Wingfield Digby. The photo at the left shows John in his favorite smoking place, the Sir Walter Raleigh stone seat where Walter is said to have smoked his pipe.

John’s funeral, took place 25 days following his death on 24 August 2015 and was attended by 500 at Sherborne Abbey. To many at Sherborne, John was affectionately known as “The Squire”.

Family History & Sherborne Castle

John’s ancestor, George Wingfield Digby, at age 60, had in 1856, inherited Sherborne Castle estates and £I million from his bachelor uncle, Edward, the 8th Lord & 2nd Earl Digby. It was George who employed the architect, Philip Hardwick, to restore the Tudor “house” built by Sir Walter Ralegh, as well as the choir in Sherborne Abbey and eight churches on the estate along with a new Wingfield Digby mausoleum.

It is remembered that John’s father, politician Simon Wingfield Digby, MP [Member of Parliament], kindly opened Sherborne Castle exclusively for WFS President Bob Wingfield and the Wingfield Family Society members who were visiting England. John Kenelm Wingfield Digby The WFS members were shown many pieces of family art (and Raleigh’s pipe!) via guides, and recounted the history of the (1937 – 2015) Wingfield Digbys, which goes back to Tudor times.

John, age 78, died on 30 July 2015. Mr. Digby is survived by (Sources: WFS Newsletters of Summer 1991, The Western Gazette, his wife of 53 years, Josephine nee Walker; his daughter, 1 Aug 2015, The Times, and The Peerage: www.thepeerage.com.) Victoria, and his sons: William, Simon and Edward; and a sister, Lady Venitia Anne (nee Wingfield Digby) Sherborne Castle and Estate, Dorset, England Hardy. John was born 16 February 1937 and soon afterwards was taken to Canada by his mother, Kathleen Elizabeth nee Kingstone for the duration of the war, where he stayed with his grandparents in Toronto.

Back in England, John was educated first at West Downs Prep School in Winchester, then followed his father to Harrow School and then to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied history and law. John worked at Lloyds of London and the Joint Iron Council before going to the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester.

John Kenelm Wingfield Digby, named for his great grandfather, was owner of Sherborne Castle in Dorset, once the home of Sir Walter Raleigh, which was inherited in 1998 from his

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______In Memoriam COL. J. H. WINGFIELD, Continued from Page 4

Metairie Cemetery, in the Wingfield Family Mausoleum, where other burials are recorded:

• George J. Decker, b 29 Feb 1840, NY-d 28 Jul 1870

• George Wingfield, of VA, b 19 Oct 1820- d 25 Apr 1860.

• George K. Wingfield, b 12 Sep 1850- d 11 Apr 1875 (Most likely James’ brother. George’s wife, Roberta living next door to James on the 1860 census.

• Roberta B. Wingfield, wife of George K., b 4 Sep 1828 - d 21 Jun1881. Diane "Skippy" (Reissner) Wingfield

Diane “Skippy” Wingfield of Birchwood Village MN passed away April 19, 2015 at age 86. Skippy grew up on the WINGFIELD Mississippi River in Hastings, MN. She was predeceased by her MAUSOLEUM husband of 52 years, Harold “Duke” Wingfield. She is survived Metairie by children David (Alice Roberts), Jeff (Ellen) and Mary; Cemetery, grandchildren Sarah (Eric), Kierna (Jeff), Liam (Stephanie), Patrick (Ashley) and Max; four great grandchildren; brother New Orleans Fred Reissner and brother-in-law Bob Wingfield (Virginia). Skippy and Duke were active members of the Wingfield Society for 29 years.

(Source: St. Paul, MN, Pioneer Press, 21-2 A

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CHICAGO Continued from Page 3 CORRECTIONS bus the center of Chicago and the Chicago Cubs’ stadium and Error on p. 3 of last issue, Director, Archbishop we had a scrumptious picnic lunch. On Saturday evening we Mark A. DuBois [NOT DeBois] had a delicious dinner with presents of Wingfield photo albums or Wingfield key-rings for all, followed by a most interesting Error on p.8 of last issue, Sir John Wingfield’s talk by (Mrs) Ginger Frere on “The Newberry Library, the Ancestors. WFS Historian Jocelyn Wingfield genealogy library in Chicago,” after which the President writes: My apologies for sending two wrong presented a copy of “Virginia’s True Founder” and “Wingfield, christian names for Sir John’s ancestors. Please its Church, Castle and College” for their library. amend as thus: Sir John Wingfield & Margaret [NOT Elizabeth] Hastings and On Sunday, member Archbishop Mark DuBois of Mackinaw Sir Thomas [NOT John] Wingfield & Margaret IL held a lovely church service in the Hotel. It was a most Bovile. enjoyable and successful meeting enjoyed by all.

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WFS GPR Project The Tickencote Burials Mystery by John Parry-Wingfield & Jocelyn Wingfield

It has long been a source of mystery that no memorial stones Burials show up under this technique, since they are less dense have been found for the many Wingfields buried at Tickencote than the surrounding soil. church over some 200 years. The WFS has been supporting John Parry-Wingfield and Anne Wingfield-Hayes in trying to The work was carried out in August 2015 in those areas where resolve this mystery. The Wingfields acquired the manor of the GPR equipment could be used without moving heavy pews Tickencote in Rutland, England, in 1593 and lived there or other furnishings. The result was that no evidence was found continuously until 1920. In 1948 the main house was sold and of a crypt. One possible grave and unmarked gravestone were subsequently demolished. The latest in the line of Tickencote identified, but otherwise nothing was detected that would justify Wingfields, John Parry-Wingfield, now lives two miles away in excavation work. This was disappointing. the village of Empingham. St. Peters Church, Tickencote Tickencote also has a very fine Norman church dating from the 12th century, with a stunning and very rare chancel arch with six individual sections. In 1792 there was a major restoration funded and organized by Eliza Wingfield, then aged 85. The church records show that 27 Wingfield family members were buried at the church between 1602 and 1783 and yet, with one exception (1759), there are no tombstones or other memorials to identify these burials. The grandparents of Thomas Wingfield of York River, VA [TWYR] are Sir John Wingfield, who died on Christmas Day, 1631, and buried 9 January 1632; and Frances, daughter of Edward, Lord Cromwell, buried 25 June 1662, and also TWYR’s great grandfather, Sir John Wingfield, Sr. "of the Exchequer” were all buried somewhere at Tickencote: [Wingfield Muniments, pp.10-11]. After 1783, however, all the burials are identified by some form of memorial. Looking at the documentary evidence it suggests that, if there were any memorial slabs, they were probably on the floor, very John and Anne, together with Anne’s husband, Hugh (now possibly had become illegible and lost or destroyed when both deceased), decided that the mystery of the absent memorials the nave and the chancel floors were raised in the 1792 needed investigation. The Wingfields were after all the Lords of rebuilding. On the other hand, if this is the case, it is surprising the Manor of Tickencote, so surely they merited a stone or other that Eliza Wingfield did not make a record of any slabs found, in memorial either in the church or the churchyard? whatever condition, during her building work. The original 1130-1150 (22’ x 18’) Chapel of the Holy Trinity is thought to Funding was requested and generously granted by the WFS for a lie under the outside south path, next to the chancel. Maybe Ground Penetration Radar (GPR) survey of the interior of the several Wingfields were buried there before and during the church and some of the immediate surrounds, the purpose being restoration - after which the Chapel ended up hidden underneath to see if there were signs of any unmarked graves or a burial the church, but the mystery remains as the GPR did not locate crypt, which might be investigated further at a later date. GPR them. uses radar signals to record the density of features below ground.

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