Person:Godfriedus Wynge (1)

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Rev. Godfr(i)edus1 Wynge(6979) was born in Liege, Liege, Belgium about 1526.(6980) Godfr(i)edus died 3 SEP 1595/7 in London, England, at 70 years of age.(6981)

He married Levina Grant ? circa 1545.(6982) (Additional notes for Levina Grant?(6983)) Levina died 1562.(6984)

It is possible that Matthew Wynge was the son of Rev. Godfr(i)edus Wynge, an early minister at Sandwich, England. Some family members believe it is more than a coincidence that two generations later Rev. John Wyng also served as minister to the same Sandwich Church. However, neither the Wing Family of America, Inc., nor the compiler is aware of any other evidence that links these two ministers. In addition, an early OWL recorded the following: Mr. Leander J. Wing, of Lexington, Mass. and his daughter, Mrs. Mabel Wing Castle, late of Honolulu, have been in England for several months, and while there, made inquiry of eminent genealogists as to the possibilities of tracing the Wing family ancestry beyond Matthew Wing of Banbury. The following very interesting communication written by Lothrop Witherington, an eminent London genealogist to Mrs. Castle, and by that lady transmitted to Mrs. Chamberlin, under date of June 30, 1910, would indicate that the possibilities of making further finds in England are not by any means exhausted. Mr. Witherington writes: "According to promise I send you some suggestions concerning the ancestry of your ancestors, the Rev. John Wing and his wife Deborah Bachelor.

Practically, all that is at present generally known concerning the Rev. John Wing, is the information discovered by my old friend the distinguished genealogist, Mr. Henry Fitz Gilbert Waters, whose work I am continuing in connection with my other undertakings, and all of whose manuscripts, including the Wing notes, are now in my possession. To these notes, I have added important information myself, and, I think, sufficient data, if I am given the opportunity to adequately work up the proofs, to carry the pedigree back several generations. Mr. Waters printed in his "Genealogical Gleanings" the wills of Rev. John Wing himself, which is in folio 73 of Register Scroope of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and of Matthew Wing in folio 111 of Register Lowe of the same Court. The will of the Rev. John Wing was annotated by my deceased friend Mr. Whitmore, the late City Registrar of Boston, and one of the most accomplished genealogists New England has ever had. Mr. Whitmore showed at once that the supposed first John Wing of Sandwich in New England given in Savage's Dictionary was a myth, and that Deborah Bachelor came over as a widow with her children, her husband who had been one of the pastors of the Puritan exiles in Holland had died in the famous parish of St. Mary Aldemary near Cheapside in London in 1629, the year before the great fleet went over to Boston with Winthrop.

Mr. Waters also showed that the Rev. John Wing was the son of Matthew Wing who died at Banbury in Oxfordshire in 1614, being a tailor in that famous market town. Mr. Whitmore rarely made a mistake and I suppose he is correct in this case, though I do not quite see the complete proof, but I have not, on such short notice, had sufficient time to go thoroughly into the question.(6985) If Matthew Wing of Banbury was the father of Rev. John Wing, I think that I have the father of Matthew Wing, but wish further opportunity of confirming my notes before committing myself. Although there are various Wings whose wills are found in Oxfordshire before the date of Matthew, they are mostly connected with the yeomanry, and Matthew belonged to an eminently worthy trade, the cloth industry, far and away the most important in England at that epoch, and the back-bone of the great Puritan movement. I have found the will of a cloth worker in quite a different shire, but in a famous town for New England ancestry, who leaves an only son Matthew, just a generation before the date of the man of Banbury. With such a rare surname one can fairly deduce that this is pretty near the mark, though sometimes we stumble first on the wrong individual, but they usually prove to be near cousins. The name of Matthew becomes specially interesting when we find that some of the Wings of this connection had connections named Grant, at once suggesting the origin of that famous old New England pioneer, Matthew Grant of Dorchester, afterwards the first town clerk of Hartford and ancestor of General Grant.

Mr. Waters also presented the will of Simon Wing, a tailor of St. Clement-Danes near Temple Bar in London, who died in 1626 or 1627 and whose will is in folio 29 of Register Skynner. He rather confuses the issue, as he has brothers Matthew and John who seem to be not the same as the Rev. John and his brother, but they are probably another generation... The fact remains that there are two parishes named Wing in England. One Wing All Saints in Buckinghamshire aforesaid, and a tiny Wing St. Peter and St. Paul in Rutlandshire. Perhaps the two have some mysterious connection. They could each be the origin of the name, and might be the source of a similar name for two quite distinct families...

The Rev. John Wing was doubtless descended at some epoch from a knightly family, though his immediate connections were industrial, and thus the name was doubtless manorial, and the overwhelming probability is that it came from Buckinghamshire parish. Wing in Buckinghamshire has become famous from its inclusion in the famous jingle "Tring, Wing and Ivinghoe Hampdon did forego For striking of a blow." ... "Wing" is however in itself by far the most historic and interesting of the three. It was the seat of a priory founded by the Empress Maud as an adjunct to the great Benedictine Establishment at Angers the capitol of the Plantagenet husband, the Count of Anjou, whose great fortress still remains today the most impressive sample of medieval warlike strength, putting even the tower of London to shame. At the suppression of the religious houses under Henry VIII. "Wing" fell for a time into the hands of Cardinal Wolsley in the brief interval before his own historic personal disaster. In the meanwhile during all these intervening centuries some of the most famous baronial families had been connected with "Wing" and the Queen's consorts of England had been patrons to this church. This makes the analysis of the Wing coat of arms most interesting. Az, a green maunch. The maunch is preeminently the coat of Robin Hood house of Hastings, the earls of Huntingdon, and also the famous houses of Tonez (the Knights of the Swan), of De la Ware, and of Congers, also of the fairly well known houses of Wharton, Staverton, Calthorpe, Mahun, Buller, Norton, Fleming, Mounsell, Thukhall, Aschem, Flamville, Heyford, and Grosby. Far more to the point, however, is the fact the "mounce vert" is alone given by Glover to Pagnell of Bringham. Now the great house of Pagnell connects Lincolnshire and Buckinghamshire, having famous seats in both. And if the Wings are a branch of the Pagnells, it would account for their green mouche, and their double connection with distant shires... (6986)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Toni Viertel on Ancestry Family Tree, Url: mailto:toniwv@mac.com.