Among the earliest Bint
families in the Shinfield area were those who lived at Bint's
Farm, Dunsden at nearby Sonning in the 16th & 17th
century. The photo below is from my visit in 1996 when the
building was being extensively renovated.
Richard Bint,
who died in 1605, had farmed there, and his family's births,
deaths and marriages are recorded in the earliest of Sonning's
parish registers from the 1590s. I have not however at this time
found any recorded link to them. In my view this family is
significant because they appear to be the first recorded Bint
family in the Wokingham, Shinfield area.
Early wills indicate that
they had connections with the West Ilsey and the Ridgeway area
sheep farmers.
An early manorial record
appears to spell our name as Bynde which may give an indication
of its origin.

Bint's Farm near Sonning
The earliest Bint families
on Berkshire records were sheep farmers from West Ilsey,
Lambourn and villages around the Vale of the White Horse and the
Ridgeway.
William Bint from Shinfield
who married Hannah in 1800, fathered the Arborfield family from
whom I, Thomas Henry Bint, the son of Thomas William Bint and
Ivy Savery, born at my mother's home near Pontypool, South Wales
in 1936, and brought up in the Egham, Surrey area, a few miles
from my father's birthplace, Sunningdale, am descended.
My mother's family,
the Saverys,
have their roots in the Thornbury area of Gloucestershire. Our
earliest recorded ancestor was shoemaker
John Savery
who moved from
Berkeley to Cow Hill, Oldbury in the mid 18th century. His
descendants include the Elberton 19th century blacksmith's
family who founded the Savery's ironmongers business at
Thornbury. Luke Savery,
my mother's great-grandfather, moved to South Wales in the late
19th century, his family finding work in the Pontypool area's
iron smelting and coal mining industry.
The New Zealand family
are also descended from the Shinfield and Arborfield,
Berkshire Bints. Philip
Thomas Bint and his wife Charlotte Allman
migrated to Christchurch, New Zealand on the
Cardigan Castle
in 1876 with their sons, Philip, George and James. Another
son, Walter, was born on the voyage. Charlotte gave birth to
more children in New Zealand and it from the descendants of
this family that I believe there are now far more Bint
family members living there than now reside in the UK.
The Cisco, Texas family
are descended from
William Bint and Magdalen
Hansaker who
married at Lambourn in 1673. We have no indication from
which of the Berkshire families William originated. We do
know that she was christened at Lambourn in 1655 the
daughter of Charles & Joan Hansaker.They did not have a long
marriage as William Bint died in February 1685 leaving her
with six children, one of them being Dolphin's ancestor
William who was born in 1675. Magdalen herself only lived
till February 1687 but left a will bequeathing everything to
her mother who was to take care of the children. She seems
to have been reasonably wealthy as the estate was valued at
480 pounds which was a fair amount in 1687. Her clothes were
worth 10 pounds.
Dolphin Bint,
one of the founding fathers of Cisco, was christened at
Lambourn in November 1840 the second son of gamekeeper
Charles Bint (born 1802)
and Mary Legge (1810)
who were
married at Childrey
in 1836. His
older brother was Francis John (born 1837)
The
Yorkshire & Eaton families.
A younger son of Henry
Bint from Eaton in
Berkshire was
James Frederick Bint
who was born in
1865. He, like his three brothers, was employed as a
gamekeeper. James married 16 year old Frances (Fanny) Rose
Green (born 1872) from Pendock, Worcestershire at Upton upon
Severn in 1888 and their first child Beatrice (1889) was
born nearby. Many of their descendants are include in the
Yorkshire pages on this site.
Will Bint the music halls comedian,
who appeared in the very first Royal Command Performance,
and born in Hertfordshire, has no connection to my family
tree. He has been added because of enquiries from Canada
several years ago about his illegitimate son who as an
apparent orphan was sent there. I went on researching after
finding this period of Victorian music hall history quite
fascinating.
These
pages also include families outside our area. I have had
many contacts over more than 30 years with people sharing
our surname, some with no provable connection, who were
making enquiries and sharing information about their family
members. That information and some photos has been added.
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