Ernest Winterton

Ernest was the son of William and Elizabeth Winterton. Ernest was probably the youngest of at least 11 children. Named on the census between 1871 and 1891 were: Eliza Ann (b. 1869, Arnold, Nottingham) Joseph (b. 1871, Leicester), Elizabeth (b. Leicester), Harriet/Harriett (b. 1874, Leicester), Lily/Libby (b. 1876, Nottingham), Violet/Violetta (b. 1880, Nottingham), William (b. abt 1883, Nottingham), Fanny (b. 1885, Nottingham), Thomas (b. 1887, Nottingham), Lucy (b. 1889, Nottingham) and Ernest (b. 1891, Nottingham). In 1871 William (24 b. Nottingham), a shoe finisher, and Elizabeth (21, b. abt 1851, Nottingham) were living at 12 Navigation Street, Leicester. They had two children, Eliza Ann (1½) and Joseph (3 months). By 1881 they had returned to Nottingham and were living at 33 Norland Road, St Ann's, and had six children; Eliza (11), Joseph (10), Elizabeth (8), Harriet (7), Lily (5) and Violetta (under 5 months). William was a shoe maker and his wife was working as a lace clipper. In 1891 William and his wife were living at 12 Watson(?) Street, Nottingham with their children Elizabeth (18, seamer), Harriet (17, winder silk), Lily (15, winder), Violet (10), William (8), Fanny (6), Thomas (4), Lucy (2) and Ernest (3 months). Their eldest daughter, Eliza Ann Winterton (21), was listed on the same census as an inmate and general domestic servant at Southwell House, Nottingham, in the ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity. Their youngest daughter, Lucy, may have died in 1897 at the age of 8 (b. abt 1889, death registered J/F/M, Nottingham). William and Elizabeth have not yet been traced on the 1901 Census although Elizabeth may have died the same year at the age of 51 (death registered O/N/D, Nottingham). Their daughter, Lily Winterton (25, cotton winder) was listed on the 1901 census as a boarder in the household of William and Sarah Ann Haines and their daughters Alice (20) and Sarah Ann (15) at 39 Cremorne Street, Meadows. In the same census another daughter, Harriet (37, charwoman), was the head of household at 27 Lammas Yard, Bellar Gate, Nottingham; two female boarders were in the household. Violetta Winterton was admitted to a Lunatic Asylum on 21 September 1901; she died aged 21 on 2 March 1902, death registered Nottingham (UK Lunacy Patients Addmission Registers 1846-1912). Ernest joined the Royal Navy in 1908 when he was 17 years old and by the time of the 1911 Census was an Ordinary Seaman serving in HMS King Alfred which was at Torquay. The following members of his family have also been traced in the 1911 Census: Joseph (40, shoe repairing manager), the eldest son, was single and a boarder in the household of a widow, Mary Ann Boyfield (56), and her son, Joseph Richard (20), at 15 Ewart Road, Forest Fields. William (28, coal miner hewer) had been married for six years to Elizabeth (28) and they were living with their four children, Elizabeth (5), Arthur (4), Walter (3) and Ada (1), at 282 St Ann's Well Road, Nottingham. Harriet (37, clipper lace worker, working at home) was living alone at 9 Bees Yard, Nottingham. Lily (35) had married Charles Tomlinson (34, labourer steel industry) the previous year and was living at 55 Bradford street, Attercliffe Common, Sheffield. The Royal Navy notified his father, William, of his son's death; William's address was given as 282 St Ann's Well Road, Nottingham. This address was that of his son William at the time of the 1911 Census. William's father was not in the household on the night of the census so there was either an error on the RN record and the William referred to was Ernest's brother or William senior later went to live with his son. William senior probably died aged 69 in 1917 (registered June, Nottingham). His son William may have died in 1958 at the age of 75 (registered June, Nottingham).

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