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Middleton joins the royal family on April 29.Westminster Abbey's historic bells will

proclaim "Kate's" marriage to "Prince Wil-liam of Wales" that Friday, just after I I a.m.London time, or following 6 a.m. EST in US.

And 'Kate,' as most Newsletter readersknow, is a bona fide Wingfield! Until newwedding pictures come along, check these:

lffil ffiffQ-q!$15- lg_.?ni A brother-in-law for

our soon-to-be Princess Catherine00 Royal younger brother Prince Harry

Didja check your mail today?2,000 wedding invitations

went round the world: RSVP

Royalty Old, E$rRoyalty New

Queen Elizabeth II haswelcomed another 'Eli-

zabeth' to join the familywhen Catherine Elizabeth

Message fromthe Manor

00 The organizers of our upcomingnational meeting in the first week ofJune, and WFS officers, encourage you topack your bag and head to San Antonio !

San Antonio is an historic place withsites like the Alamo, the Spanish gover-nor's mansion, a chain of famous mis-sions, and Institute of Texan Cultures.0 It's also home to many theme parks

including Fiesta Texas, Sea World, andmore! Our members will stay at theWyndham St. Anthony Hotel, just blocksfrom the Alamo, and that will be ourofficial hotel. You can go to the websites of the theme parkso or of the SanAntonio Convention Bureau, and printvery significant discount coupons foryourself and all your party!0 Bring the kids with ),ou. We are try-ing to orient the meeting in a youthfuldirection - they will all be welcome!

This multi-star hotel is giving us anunheard of base rate for only $89 perday, including a hot breakfast for two!0 You can't beat it so come andjoin

i// If you don't have the forms for regis-tration, or for the hotel reservation, just'web' www.wingfield.org, select'meet-ings,' then select the ones you want, andyou'll get them right away.

- As they always say: "Y'all con e!"

) With best wishes from 'Wing'and fromRoland Haden and Wally Goodman,the Winsfield 20ll Meetins Coordinators 0

l. WFS Member ProJile' tsJocelyn James Rhys WingfieldJocelyn Wingfield of Morston, Nor-

folk, England describes himself as "amember of that great EastAnglian Family that spreadin the Seventeenth Centuryto Virginia and thence allover modern day USA and tothe Caribbean, Australia,Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe),South Africa, and Canada.

Jocelyn was born in 1937.He was raised at Elton, Hunt-ingdonshire, a village nearFotheringhay between StonelyPriory and Kimbolton Castleto the south, and TickencoteHall and Upton Manor nearBurghley House to the north.

He is descended from President andCaptain Edward Maria Wingfield'sGreat-Uncle Lewis Wingfield, comp-troller for the Bishop of Winchester.

Jocelyn is the eldest of three brothers,Robin (died 1999) and George, both WFSmembers. By the time he went to Brit-ain's most prestigious (in U.S. 'private')

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- The Virginia State Qaarter--by George R. Wingfield of Ottumwa, Iowa

000 Wingfield FamilySociety members mighttry fishing the loosechange out of theirpockets or wallets tosee if they can find aquarter like this one.

I did that earlier this year, and there itwas - a Virginia State Quarter, mintedin 2000 just like this one. Of course, thechances of finding such a coin are impro-ved if one lives in the U.S. rather than inEngland. ln any case, the coin serves asa reminder of our Wingfield heritage

Jocelyn inKOYLI messkit'

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will be smiling againby noon of Friday,April 29, as he takeson new responsibilityas brother-in-law ofanew queenlo-be.Harr), will be 'best

man.' Kate's sister'Pippa' will be themaid of honor.

{ Great smiles, great hat! }

- Patrick and Margaret Wingfield fled to Cape Town, RSA -by Jocelyn J. R. l4tingfield, WFS Historian and International V.P.

Patrick Wingfield (75, fourth cousin to Jocelyn, WFS 1992-1996) and his wife'Mags' have been found after years of worry and searching by Jocelyn and other UKrelatives and friends. They are living in Cape Town, South Africa. Patrick is the sonof Noel Sparks Wingfield, who was a Rhodesian 'Member of Parliament' of Guta,Arcturus, near Marandellas in Rhodesia - now known as Maranderas, Zimbabwe.His mother was Mary Joan Wingfield nde Woods. They had a farm called Rochester.

Noel's father, Richard William Wingfield (of the Wingfield-Powerscourt Line), hadoriginally purchased, on a 99-year lease, a 3,000-acre farm which he called "Weldon,"25 miles from Marandellas. But when Richard died a few years after 1918, his widowJessie ndeKennedy sunendered it to the government. {See Patrick on page 6l

i New in London town? Here's help.I

i Find your way around easily as on page 5.

since it depicts the small fleetof ships which landed in 1607at Jamestown, where EdwardMaria Wingfield became thefirst president of the Virginiacolony. {See Quarter page 3l

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Rowland Wingfield, 1808- 1884, ofthe Shropshire, England line, was a pioneerfarmer and magistrate in Ontario, Canada.

"Why did he buy land in lowa?"

1808: Born at Shawbury, 7 miles NE of theAbbey aka Holy Cross, Shrewsbury.

1832-34: Living at Puslinch, Guelph Dis-trict, Wellington Col, Ontario,Canada West aka Upper Canada.

1834-37: Living at Sarnia Guelph District,Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada.

1838: Recce in OH, KY, IL, MI, IA in USA.1838: Bought2l5 acres in Muscatine

County, Iowa, USA. Why?1838: Bought 14 acres in Cedar Co., Iowa1860: Magistrate at Windsor, Essex Co. On-

tario, Canada. (Bench at Sandwich);summoned to deal with racial riot inBeaver Dam, Dodge Co., Wt, USA.

1868: Visit to England, thence - via Corkand NYC - to Boston, MA, USA.

1870-71: Living unmarried at Bexleyheath,Kent, England.

l88l: Living, aged 72-73, married (no wifein census), at Wandsworth, SW Lon-don.

1884: Died aged76 at Crawley, Sussex.Sole executor, James Strong, 25,Gentleman. Estate worth fl64-12shillings and l0 pence.

From his writings and actions it wouldappear that Rowland was a free thinker, aman who questioned everything, who be-lieved in fair play, and who was not going tokowtow to anyone. He was clearly used togetting his own way. He was persnickety,picky, and very aware of his rights; spoke hismind openly, and could be extremely cussed.

This is all quite apparent in his "DefenseAgainst Treason" (the charge was dropped).He was generous, over-free in his spending,and could be easily taken in. Overall he wasa friendly man with an infectious laugh.

Clearly, Rowland had a love of farmingand some wanderlust. ,IJRW/zu

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. . . George or Charles?While 'proofing' page 4

we realized that the comingJuly New s letter would besreat for members to share

with ttreir cousins some of their own ances-tors' involvements in the Revolutionary War

&_ including various situations on both

% sides of the issue. Whaddya think?'rG That era's men and women, civilians

or soldiers (some 12 years old), believed theirjudgment was the right thing. Please tell usall about your ancestors' views and activities.We will help with spelling, etc., if you wish.

Send your info to the editor per themasthead (at above right) or by 1{

{Profile continuedfrom page one}public school, Eton College (26 houses,1,150 boys), he had a consuming interestin flying saucers, as were popular at thattime. He had by then noticed that hisown parents Tim and Pat Wingfieldappeared to be related to "nearly every-one" in some way - '(4 family habit "he says, " . . . sincefrom the Tudor times,the Wingfields bred like rabbits."

When he was about 16, his father in-troduced him to 'Jack' Parry-Wingfield,the last family owner of Tickencote Hall(by then demolished), father of JohnParry-Wingfield. Jack produced a large'family tree,' and after that Jocelyn wenton to become the family genealogist.

At Eton he was the youngest ever'Captain of Games' of his house, earnedby being good at one of those two verystrange Eton-only games, "the fieldgame" a cross between soccer andrugger. He played soccer for two yearsfor Eton. and he did well in German and

Jocelyn, George, and mother Patricia at Eton

French, a forerunner to later languages.In the holidays he played football for the

village team, and in the same week that hewas conscripted for the National Service(two years in the A*y) he was also se-lected for a trial with the reserve team ofPeterborough, the local city soccer team.

But he never kept that date as he was bythen, "during the Suez Crisis and the Hun-garian uprising," doing his basic training atWinchester, the'oGreen-Jackets Depot."

A year later he was commissioned asecond lieutenant into the KOYLI, theKing's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, andposted to Cyprus, where the emergencyinvolving the EOKAterrorists, who werefighting for union withGreece, was still linger-ing on.

After two months.Jocelyn was given securityresponsibility for 100

Combat Armsof the Brrtish ArmyArms urul Services

square miles of mountains and villages,where he soon cap- {See Profile on page 3}

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1 . In the search box, type in part of thename such as 'Wingfield Family.'If the Wingfield Family SocietyGroup does not appear, click onwhere it says "See more results

for..." at the bottom of the box.That should open a list on the left,and one item in the list will be"Groups." Click on it.That, hopefully, will make theWFS group appear. Click on it.

- Thanks to Marion Wingfield

www.wingfield.org

I194 N. 520 EastOrem UT 84097

zella@wingfield.org

Editor Emeritus: Robert Caru

Zella MorrowRalph Morrow

Wallace GoodmanNila, Greg, Juli4Zach,

Adriane, and AubreyComputer Advisors Nila a Greg Blackham

Adriane a Michael Richardson

WFS Officers

Harwood Wingfield "Wing" Hughes PresidentRoland HadenJohn D. WingfieldBarbara CortinoJocelyn Wingfield

Vice PresidentTreasurerSecretary

International VPWilsie Wingfield Can President Emeritus

WFS DirectorsELECTED:Years 2010-2013: Years 2008-201 1:Gail Miller Doris MurphyEd Coussens R.Ian WingfieldBilly Wingfield Greg H. WingfieldRobert W. Wingfield Mark T.Wingfield

APPOINTED:Dale Ruf ChaplainSara Garrett ComputerZella Morrow PublishingVance Wingfield WebmasterMary E. Wingfield MembershipWallace Goodman PhotographyJocelyn Wingfield WFS HistorianRobert Carr Editor EmeritusWing Hughes Wingfield StoreSam Batsell Genealogy - DNAVirginia Jones Reunion RegistrarWilsie W. Carr President EmeritusRoland Haden and Meetins Coordinators

Wally Goodman

O 201I Wingfield Family SocietyExtras of this issue: $4.00 for members

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EditorAssistant EditorPhoto TechnologyMailing Assistants

wo Changes to Member Information I

Mary Cottrell: email is changed toonbigcreek@gmail.com

Marilyn Wingfield: email corrected tomarilynlw ingfi eld@gmail. com

John D. Wingfield, treasurer, is stillhaving problems with his phone #.(Mostly Zella Morrow'sfault -- sorry!)

IThe land line is sti l l478-987-1868]J3 cell phone J3 which he prefers

for WFS members: 478-957 -5974

Change his phone # in the catalog, also.

Todd Newsome: moved to 2364 HarborBlvd., Apt. 102; CostaMesa, CA92626-6285; new phone ??

Dixie Foster: moved to 11210 Huggins Dr.,Houston TX 77035-6030; new phone ??

Raven Ross: 631 West Indian School Rd.,Unit 0; Phoenix AZ 85282; same phone602-332-5086; email remains the same.

- .Pg..yg.lf.Lgg.9t..bee due ???If 'Dec l0' is on your mail addresslabel now, 'tis probably so! To be

in the good graces of " King W'ingfteld" *

and receive more Newsletters, Rosters,etc., remit the one or 5-year tab ($35 or$150) by June I to volunteer treasurerJohn D. Wingfield, 1004 Cherokee Rd.,Perry GA 31069 -2243. * (See page 7.) I

Directors to be elected at San AntonioFor the three-year term of 20ll to 2014,

four directors will be elected at the SanAntonio general meeting in June, as re-lated in the previous newsletter. Per theWFS bylaws, a nominating committeewill present nominees at the meeting, andall members at large may also nominatewilling members whose names have beensubmiued to Pres. 'Wing' Hughes by May

\ 15th via his Membership RosterA address or his email address

ryH' at dhughe l5@tampabay.rr.com.

How about a British bank holidayon a Sunday? (maybe April 29th7?)- Well, we sort of made

that suggestion in the previ-ous Newsletter issue, frontpage. But somehow theBritish frrancial sector (orwas it the royal sector) did 1 '

not take us up on that idea, so . . . .So ... guess the wedding will be on

Friday the 29th. -A good day for it!-'See ya there . . . Friday! ^:,

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The 50 States Commemorative CoinProgram Act was passed by Congress in1997 and signed by President Clinton.

The front, or obverse, of the quartersbear an appropriate chosen emblem foreach of the fifty states. From 1999 to2008 five new state quarters were issued

each year in the order of their statehood.That is, starting with the original 13

states and then continuing in the order inwhich they joined the Union.

Virginia was among the original 13which declared independence on July 4,1776, but the U.S. Constitution was notratified by Virginia until 1788, makingit state #10 in the order of statehood.

Tim Kaine, Virginia's governor in2006, is in the above photo which wastaken at a 400th anniversary Jamestowndinner in London in December 2006.

With him, left to right, (above) areWFS members Richard and Jocelyn Wing-field, John Parry-Wingfield, GovernorKaine, George Wingfield, the governor'swife Anne, and the vocalist ElisabethWingfield. (All Wingfields are WFS.)

Tim Kaine was the 70thgovernor of Virginia, from2006 to 2010, and welcomedthe WFS to Virginia in2007.He is now the chairman of the

Democratic National Committee. GRrr/ / z-M

{Profile continued from page 2} tured a key terrorist courier with EOI(A orders. SinceJocelyn wanted to capture the bus as well, he made the courier drive the bus through the moun-tains at gunpoint. When the driver deliberately crashed the bus, Jocelyn chased and arrestedhim in a cemetery, thinking if the man had made a better job of the crash this is where he proba-bly would have ended up - "a sort of Boot Hill." After that, he was given local leave with lwoother officers. Their 'hire' car had a faulty petrol gauge, so they had to try to fill up in a villagewhich had apparently been under curfew for four months. They were very nearly lynched byburning by a large mob, but escaped by pretending to be German tourists. On his retum fromleave, his father introduced him to Dr. Bill Wingfield from Marl Ridge, Ashland, Va. "CousinBill" and Jocelyn became great friends. "Dr. Bill," the first WFS president, was searching forThomas Wingfield of York River's birthdate, "flourishing 1680." [Bom in London, March 20,1664.f

Jocelyn was then posted to the 'British Army of the Rhine' where within ayear he was on the vast Sennelager Ranges, helping to run the NATO FallingPlates (rifle shooting competition) Final. The general running the competitioncalled out: "Wingfield, come over here!" Jocelyn and a colonel wearing aRoyal Electrical and Mechanical Eneineers* hat badge doubled over and stoodto attention. The general was nonplussed. The colonel was Jocelyn's fourthcousin whom he had never met - Robert "Bobby" Wingfield, husband of MaryWingfield (both WFS, now deceased). *

[REME, often called'Reemee'fThe general and the shooting were both forgotten. They both started talking

genealogy. Bobby, whose beautiful illuminated Wingfield Family Scroll

Royal Electrical and was the one tasked by Bill that later was to unearth that Thomas of YorkMechanical Engineers River's father, John wingfield, York Herald, died in debtors' prison and was

buried at St. George the Marffr, Southwark. "Wingfields!" screamed the generalfor the third time. - Wingfield genealogy stopped.

The NATO shooting resumed, but finished five minutes after the 5G-odd rangesshould have closed, so the German range staff of 200 were paid overtime. Bobbywas a keen genealogist, and before long the two of them had unearthed the fact that

Harbottle Wingfield II had emigrated to Port Royal, Jamaica in the 1670s.Traditional early I 800s

stute dress hetme, Jocelyn was posted to Malaysia, "a gorgeous place with lovely people." Headored the place except for scorpions, and was twice stung by 50 bees, "good for

those with creaky backs," he says. "We never spoke in the jungle. Everything was done withhand signals." He soon learned Malay. Before long he was posted to the British Army JungleWarfare School as the Deputy Chief Instructor, Jungle Warfare, on the South Vietnamese Offi-cer Wing (with interpreters), and after a year he returned to his regiment for the Brunei Revoltand Indonesian "Confrontation." He found Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah) the most won-derful place - primary jungle, wonderful people, especially the Ibans (he quickly taught himselfIban) and Kayans of Brunei and of Sarawak, "vast fast flowing rivers with rapids, hombills,crocodiles, outboard motors, longboats, and of course vast longhouses."

Once when having his evening swim, he nearly swam into two red "lights" in midstream,but realized... and surely beat Johnny Weissmuller's record to the river bank. The croc wasjust as surprised and headed for the other bank. "But you had to wash!" { See Profile on page 5 }

Happy 93rd Birthday !

to Middleton Wingfieldof Collierville, Tennessee

t March 3. 201I r- And many more ! -

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Magazine, submitted by another proud alumnus, the storiesRobert Wingfield of Buffalo Grove, Illinois. zM told here

p r i m a r i l ycover thev Marilyn Wingfield of Capitola, Califor-

nia, writes: "My big news for the year 2010was my trip to Africa. I gathered l0 of myadventurous friends and went to Botswana-Zimbabwe. Zambia. and South Africa."

period from the 1930s to the 1960s.Florence has spent all her life in

herst County, Va. She attendedElementary School and sraduatedMadison Heights High School in 1954. ---

--- flow of the Okavango River into theKalahari Desert. Then we also went toKafue National Park, located in Zambia,seeing many birdsduring the river safariand the Hwange Na-tional Park located inZimbabwe. At thetent camp in Hwangethe last night we werethere, about 80 elephants came to drinkout of the swimming pool. That was atreat - for all !!

"We also went to Victoria Falls,which is the larsest curtain of water on

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...these new members since the previousissue of the ltlewsletter. More info is

coming soon. Our heartiest welcome to:

o Roger Wingfield of Brooklyn, NY.

I Col. Stewart B. McCarty, Jr., ofFairfax, Virginia. Col. McCarly is aretired Marine colonel and a cousin ofMary Wingfield, our Membership Chair.He is also an active genealogist! n

---+ She then attended and graduatedfrom Phillips Business College.

She served as co-chairman on both ofthe book commiffees when the AmherstCounty Virginia Heritage, Vol. I and II,were published. She is currently a mem-ber of the Amherst County Museum andHistorical Society, where she served onthe activities committee; the NationalSociety Daughters of the AmericanRevolution, where she served as regentof the Amherst Chapter; the NationalSociety Colonial Dames XVII Century,where she served as registrar of the Westof the Falls Chapter, and has proved anumber of armorial ancestors; the Na-tional Magna Charta Society Dames;and Plantagenet Society. (Sounds busy!)

- Your editor read the book and foundit especially interesting as she has ances-tors who came from Amherst County, Vzr.,including Pollard, Berry, Moonye, and my3-greats Grandfather James Thompson -

one of Washington's soldiers at Yorktownwatching Lord Cornwallis' troops layingdown their weapons in October 1781 .

If interested in more informationabout the book, or perhaps to purchasea copy, contact Florence at 123 YoungerDrive, Madison Heights VA 24572;phone 434-384-2853; or contact her byemail at hfnixon@verizon.net. zM

earth - one of the "Seven Natural Won-ders of the World." And while there, Itook a helicopter ride to see the VictoriaFalls from above - beautiful !!

This was certainly one of the verybest trips I have ever taken. - Marilyn

- winsligldp in A_c_tion -

Rear Admiral Nora Tyson of Madison Heights, Virginia, published

==**., ;[ navigates uncharted wa- the book "In The Shadow of Tobaccoters as the first woman to Row Mountain;

command a Navy carrier Elon, Monroe, and

strike group. other villages' "

When she was studyins The book came out

Shakespeare and, Mitton it last fall and has

Vanderbilt U. in the late been doing quite-to{

1970s, Nora wingfield well' For more

Tvson never dreamed she'd be makine than 30 years, Flor-

hiitory one day. But last July, in u "i

ence has been collecting photographs and

ernous aircraft carrier hangar in Norfolk, stories of Elon' Va. and surrounding area.

Va., Rear Admiral Tyson did just thai this volume she has compiled a brief

when she became the first woman in h.itt?w..9f southwestern Amherst county', , . . . , , . , _ _ l r i c h l y i l l u s t r a t e d w i t h m o r e t h a n 5 0 0 p h o -

u.5. Navy nrstory to De nameo me com- . ' ,mander of a carrier strike sroup. l"^i:1on:::ll' |]:'i:'j'-':3:':T: T:y;

As such, she's responsible for the lives ,'n?:'J:1""ir13llrJlj ff:l',] -ffi;:?

of more than 9,000 sailors and airmen, not ;;^ :,.^; , ,. c, ., ,to mention bil l ions of dollars wortir of

me pnotograpns' lnquolng'oT: or,Dullq-

^L:-^ ^-r ^ : -^-^r1 -^:^^r +^ ^+-: t .^ ̂ . . :^r - r , . lngs no longer stanolng' werg taKen Dy nerships and aircraft poised to strike quickly ;':-^';^' ,at America's enemies anywhere in th; i i ]"^1n

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world. It's a heavy load foi anyon" to u"ui H "" t ; : T :- man or woman

"The work is never easy but it is, in my *t\illr,,.

rn.mind, the most noble and rewarding work

Uoo[ in_there is - serving our country," she says. -, -;--This article byloanne Lamphere Beckfiam,BA cludes . some

'63, appears in the current Vanderbitt Alumni early history,

Am-Elonfrom

"It was a great trip, and all of my friendsenjoyed each other, even though they didn'tknow each other before this trip.

"We did many safaris to see all the ani-mals. In Chobe National Park. located inBotswana, we saw tons of elephants!

"One of the highlights for me was doingthe Okavango Delta in the makoro dugoutcanoes. The Okavango Delta is the world'slarqest inland river delta. created bv the ---+

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Florence and Holcomb

- Continuing

ffiWingfields in Action -

lan Wingfield wasformally enclothed

in otThe Liveryooand presented to LadyMilnes-Coates, Master ofthe Worshipful Com-

cluding bits, bridles,spurs, stimrps, saddletrees, and related items a long-agoskill and still today an 'ordinance.'

The craft continues to be taught inLondon, with the company's assistance,atthe Capel Manor College campus atEnfield, in north London. It was #founded earlier than any other frordinance craft except cappers,

"ffithe makers of boots, etc., but Lorinersc'o'a

later taken into the haberdasher livery.

Remember K * I4t: Newlywed cou-ples may have a 5-year WFS mem-bership for iyst hay yte regular cost.

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pany of l-oriners, on January 2U[ afurwhich an investiture dinner was held byThe Loriners Company at the Vinbrers'Hall in London. The Loriners ilre nowcelebrating the 75Oth year since itsfoundins in 1261. and 300 vears since

Queen Anne, in l7ll,granted its charter.

"Loriners" originallymade various parts for - Remember all those places you'd like to visit again'? So how about another 'WFS England T'our' arul then a

stop at Westminster Abbey.for the Royal Wedding. With only 2,000 invilations sent, there'll be room.for us, right?

{ Profife continuedfrom page 3 | Before long, Jocelyn volunteered for the Malaysia Rang-ers," fioining them in Malaya)," which was to recruit and train fast to be able to return to Bor-neo to fight against the incursion of Sukarno's Indonesians within a year. As a jungle-trainedIban and Malay speaker, Jocelyn was a natural to be sent to recruit up the great rivers of Sara-wak and then to train them for war. There were no high street banks upriver, and the new re-cruits (ofeight races) had to be fed, transported, and paid, so he hada money belt made, stuffing it with thousands of pounds of bank notes in small denominations,and took a bodyguard everywhere. One night he had his evening swim in his underpants andslowly began to sink - f 10,000 in wet notes weighs a lot, and one of the belt buckles was un-done. He and his men sat with loaded weapons in a hired warehouse (with a glass roof) thefollowing day, watching thousands of bank notes drying in the sun. After Borneo, Jocelynposted to Berlin, the "Divided City," where he met and became engaged to Sara ffolkes. [Itreally is spelled with two lower case fs - the old capital 'F'.] Whilst courting, when they hadbeen 'out on the town' they regularly used to go to the Brandenburg Gate when the night clubsclosed at 4:00 a.m. '0... to 'say good-night ' to the Russians." Joceyln's room at the KOYI-IOfficers' Mess was just 15 yards from the East Germany-West Berlin border.

Jocelyn and Sara were married at Yoxford, Suffolk, a village 25 miles north of Ipswich(70 miles north of London) in 1968, and bought a home not too far from Wingfield, Suffolk.

horses' harnesses in- *

Jocelyn then did a tour in Abu Dhabi [Persian Gulf], learning Arabic for the job, which besides visiting tiny sheikdomsby helicopter involved running the National Parade of army jets, navy, and the camel corps, and anyone who owned atruck. A tour of two and a half years at the West German Defense College followed (he is a qualified German inter-preter), and then a tour at HQ Armed Forces Central Europe in Intelligence followed - about which he will tell us noth-ing! - after which he left the army and became a "head hunter" or an executive research consultant for several years, cov-ering the Middle East, prior to joining "Save the Children," a community development agency where he ran programs in22 countries with an annual budeet of $5.000.000.

Jocelvn in Abu For the last five yean of his working lifg €ed 60 to 65, he punued the career he wanted to teaching English as a

"*!:";#*: foreign tanguage -bui it didnl "u- "noughrnon

y. He and Sara had some 75 students, mainly aged zs-:: ana 'tigh- ;,;; J,,;;ch' achievers,' fr.91n .everf comer of lhe globe, one at a time, staying in their homes for from two to four weeks to teachheaddresi them the English language one-on-one.

Jocelyn and Sara's two daughters, Serena and Camilla, are both married andlive respectively in NSW Australia, and in London. Camilla has three children aged l0 thru five.

Jocelyn has travelled in 56 countries and lived in some of them. He has done lecture tours forBritish 'oSave the Children" including on TV and radio in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand,all rich locations for family history. He was one of our WFS founding members and has attendedall WFS meetings since 1987. He has written six WFS (family) "Links" books published by the

WFS and is a regular contributor to the WFS newsletter. Heorganizes the legal handover of the "Lordship of the Manorof Wingfield" on changes of Wingfield Society presidents.

One day in the 1980s, Jocelyn hosted Princess Anne, thePrincess Royal, traveling around the "Save the Children"rural health projects in Honduras. In 1991 Jocelyn wasawarded the ooSave the Children Award" by the PrincessRoyal. ln 1992 his biography of Edward Maria Wing-field was published (l15, 000 words, 900 notes, and a bibliog-raphy of 500 books), and in 2007 it was reprinted with an update. Jocel]'n and Sara have been mar-ried for 43 years. Now they live in Norfolk, England, where Jocelyn was chairman of his village's"Design Statement" (Building and Planning) and author of the village history. He is on the ParochialChurch Council [in US: "vestry"f and is EXO of the village church fundraising committee. He and Sara

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Of Richard and Noel's six children, only Noel and Clare remained in Rhodesia.My father, W.T.R. ('Tim') Wingfield met Noel Sparks Wingfield in Bulawayo,

Rhodesia, in 1927, but I have never met Noel's son, Patrick,although t did hear news of him from the late Mary Wingfieldof Bognor Regis, widow of Lt. Colonel Bobby Wingfield, aWFS Member. (.q.)

Patrick was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) on Septemberl, 1934. He was a farmer, a keen shot, fisherrnan, and rider tohounds, and lived at Belvedere North, Goromonzi, in Masho-

naland East, about 30 miles south of the capital, Salis-bury (now Harare). He occasionally visited England.He had two farms - one of 1.320 acres and the otherof 1,930 acres.

In 1960 he married Jean Williams at SalisburyCathedral. They had three children: Sandra Joan, L-R'. Patrick's mother, Patrick,

Jean Williams, Patrick's father.

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County Tipperary. lreland. aka Tli lS

;) 'l'if i.l"l'i B;, illli,f ?;; l7lc. 3 miles northwest of Shinrone, 'i

In 1880 Captain James Sheppard, ofthe Tipperary Militia, married Mary, whowas the daughter of Thomas Doolan of"Wingfield Shinrone" and of Mary ndePalmer of Shinrone. Also circa 1808,Mary Short of "Wingfield Shinrone"married William Sheppard of the CastleSheppard family. In 1875, R.T. Croadaleowned "Wingfield Shinrone."

. Wingfield, Kent, England: a ruraldistrict of Faversham. Kent. s.e. of London.

-To be continued in the next newsletter. lJRI,v

> This poem was written by Maria Butlerand was a favorite of her husband, Tom.It was read during his memorial service.

Thut Kind of Rain ---I'm talking about the rain

that softens the earththat drank it in for a long week

that brought me inside,thinking I'm a drop

that falls to flow with others dropping,connected, moving without mind.

When it is my time to die,I want to.ioin the others

flowing in an ocean of soulson a warm day

in a sea ofSeptember tide,

becoming one again.

['ll need the sun at lastto ripple across the water,

casting a rainbow,arching the dunes

like the signature of Godsigning me in again.

- Maria Wingfield Butler

Richard David Noel. and Clare. They divorced in1964. In 1965166 Patrick married Margaret (Mags) Finch from Canterbury, Eng-land (b. 1947). In 1973 they had a son, Jeremy James.

In 1970 Rhodesia was declared a republic, and in 1979 was renamed Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. From 1980 to 1987, Canaan Banana (upper left) was president of thenewly independent Zimbabwe, with Robert Mueabe (his successor-to-be, l.) the prime

mlnlster."In May 1982 at 9:00 a.m. Margaret Wingfield, 35, was being driven from Goromonzi to

Harare by farm manager Antony Jackson, when President Banana's motorcade aporoached atvery hieh speed with lights flashing and sirens wailine, led by ten motorcycle outriders - formerguerillas of the Presidential Guard" Behind the motorcycle escort came two police cars, fol-lowed by the president's Mercedes, and then a landcruiser with the Presidential Guard in greencamouflage uniforms, all toting AK-47 rifles. We slowedalmost to a halt as they whizzed past," said Mrs. Wingfield."Then we heard shots, and both my back and front windshieldsshattered and I had a bad gash on the head." By law, MagsWingfield should have "... stopped at the roadside. ... Penalty forfailure to do so was f 15." (s)

In Zimbabwe in 2000, the president (and from 1980 the dicta-tor) Robert Mugabe announced the impending seizure of Pat-rick's two farms (see below) - two of many hundreds of farmsseized then and afterwards. WFS member Mary Wingfield, theircousin and their UK contact. died durins that time.

We British Wingfields heard nothing more of Patrick and his family. Since many of thewhite farmers were beaten, and some even murdered, we feared for his family's safety.

In June 2000 the Zimbabwe government published under "Farms for Seizure" Patrick'sadjoining farm of 6,486 acres, lying 30 miles due east of Harare in Goromonzi District, which heran as one unit - Rochester Farm, where Patrick grew up and his parents lived until they movedto Harare. Patrick subsequently ran all three under one umbrella - 3.192 acres. We thought atfirst that Patrick and Mags might have fled to Harare, the capital, maybe with Patrick's sisterJenepher (Jennifer) Hensman, or to Capetown (earlier spelling), South Africa. {Cont. next page}

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,Itt"...M"p-Wp_m-n.. Thomas Sterling Butler suddenly began his life of peace with cod on January 2,2011, in Mathews,Virginia, while on a brief vacation. He was the son of the late Mil&ed and Morris Butler, formerly of Petersbug, Virginia.

He had lived in Richmond since 1969. Tom was an engineering graduate of Vfginia Tech and eamed a Master in Commerce de-gree from the University of Richmond. He served in the Navy (USNR) at N.A.D. Earle, N.J., and in Chu Lai,

Vietnam, as Military Sea Transport Officer, retiring as Lt. Junior Grade. Tombegan work as an industrial engineer at Reynolds Metals in 1969, retiring fromAlcoa at age 57. Currently he was employed by Morgan Edwards Realty inMathews, Virginia, and was active in numerous professional societies and phil-anthropic organizations. Tom was ever faithful, a loving caretaker of his familyand supported everyone he knew. He had a way of always knowing exactly whatneeded to be done and simply doing it. He was a fisherman (baiting everyone

else's hooks), a lover of sunsets and of nature's beauty. He was always ready for a round of golf, and was afaithful Virginia Tech football fan. His family and friends are all beneficiaries of his life. Tom is survivedby his wife, Maria; his two children, Lizry Mottem and husband Bobby Mottem; and Thomas Butler and parher Vivian Sylvest;sister, Janet Barker; uncle, Lewis Butler; and aunt, Francis Healey. A graveside funeral service was held on Friday, Ja tary'7, atBlandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia. Following the burial, there was a memorial service at Trinity United Methodist

Ensigtt Thomos Butler, [/.5. Navy

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- Perhaps some readers of the October2010 Newsletter issue were surprised tosee that royal title (up at the top 1) onthe last page of that issue, in the thirdcolumn text. So were your editors.

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> 1550 to Apri l 13, 1631(In respectful memory of

Edwa rd-Maria Wingfield,born at Stonely Priory,

Cambridgeshire, in I 550during reign of Edward VI, the boy king.

After his initial Jamestown venture of1606 to 1608, 'EMW' retumed to Eng-land and reported to the goveming boardof the Virginia Company.

He then continued advising and sup-porting the efforts of the Virginia Com-pany during its tenure. rrT--1-

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ilT,.'".,j":l?lle "i':#,x- Mman Of the BOafd Of GOVer- Kimbotkn schoot

nors of the Kimbolton School, Cam-bridgeshire, until his death in 1631.

He was buried at Kimbolton. Cam-bridgeshire, on Sunday, April 13, 1631,

{ Profile continuedfrom page 5 }supper club which meets in private homes.

One of the highlights of his life was orga-nizing, in 2006 at Kimbolton, Cambridge-shire, in England, a memorial service forEdward Maria Wingfield and, with gWFS President LeBron Preston't\gffigenerous help and advice, the %HFdesign, authorization, installa- HAC berer badge

tion, and dedication (by Bishop John Inge)of EMW's "memorial stone" in St. Andrew'sParish Church [protestant], attended bysome 250 people (mainly from the UK andthe U.S., including military attach6s andUSAAF personnel), and processing "fromthe castle to church and return" ;- famous for providing a body-guard on ceremonial occasionsfor the Lord Mayor of London,the renowned "Pikemen andMusketeers" of the HonourableArtillery Company. (HAC c.o.a-)

Numbers included the governor of the

Jamestown Society, sixty-six Wingfield kin(including 30 from the WFS), nine clergy,

and senior descendants of several early Vir-ginia pioneers such as Raleigh." 000

Ed. note'. Jocelyn says the two most fulfilling talkshe gave were one about a dozen years ago to theJamestown Societv entitled "Wet Edward MariaIltingfield Really Did," plus one in 2007 to the"Cordwainers Livery Company" in London.

During that presentation he had to delicatelypoint out that Captain John Smith - one of theirclaimed forbears - wars never actually a memberof that organization, plus that the City of Londcn- including the livery companies - did not actuallysupport the Jamestown venture until 1609 - not

JJRW/zu

{Patrick continuedfrom page 6}Just before the Williamsburg meeting in May 2010, after many inquiries over three

years made to those in England with Zimbabwe connections, I was delighted to be told oftheir address in Cape Town in South Africa. They were safe and wrote. in answer to myletter: "Thank you for your letter. By all means, report to the Wingfield Society that weare now living in Cape Town. Our leaving of the farm was quite traumatic - theyoriginally gave us three hours to leave, but Patrick managed to speak to the large groupand persuaded them to allow three weeks for our packing and departure.

"During that time, both our house and our garden were inundated with political agitators- mostly high on drugs or alcohol. However, we managed to take most of the valuableswith us."

"On coming to Cape Town in August 2004, Patrick then had to undergo sur-gery, a hip replacement. Either during this operation or immediately afterwards,he sadly suffered a stroke, which has affected his short-term memory. This, I amconvinced, was caused by all the pressure and anxiety he had been under for thelast six years.

"It hasn't been easy for him - he would still go back to the farm tomorrow!I am pleased to say that he is now under a Chinese herbalist who has definitelyimproved the memory and confidence of Patrick. Mr. Robert Mugabe has somany dreadfully sad stories to answer for."

))) We were all relieved to get this communication from 'Mags' and find theyare safe, but sad that Patrick has had such a reaction to those circumstances.We wish them well, and for a speedy recovery for Patrick. - Jocelyn lhingfield

Notes: (a) Bobby used to own the beautiful, illuminated Wingfield Scroll (Pedigree), whichwas apparently stolen from the Wingfield Store at our 2002 WFS meeting in New Orleans.

from its founding of 1607.

(b) (UK) Sunday Express,30 May 1982. JJRW / ZM Pikemen and Musketeers of the Honourable Artillery Companyperform at the 2006 EMW Kimbolton celebration.

tbu!! !4 !.I--epgr-igm Mary Jrne Winglield Webster of Spart4 New Jersey, passed away on July 9, 2010.-

She was bom in Charlottesville, Virginia, on November 22, 1925, to John Richard Wingfield II and his wife, Elizabeth.In 1949 she graduated from Westhampton College, Richmond, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Science degree.

She married Edward P. Webster of New Rochelle, New York, in 1952, and they then moved to Bronxville, NewYork. After summering in the Sparta, New Jersey, area for three summers, the family moved there in 1963.

Mary Jane enjoyed working as a computer scientist for 35 years. Mary Jane always enjoyed wildlife, birds,and country-type areas. In more recent years she was a docent at Waterloo Village, demonstrating farm life ina l9th-century log cabin. Later she enjoyed portraying a "chuck wagon cook" at 'Wild West City.'

Mary Jane is survived by two sisters, Betsy Hughes of Lithia, Florida, and Beverly Monroe ofSalisbury, North Carolina.; and by one daughter, three sons, four grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. According to her son Richard, she greatly enjoyed meeting other Wingfield Family Society members,including last year at the Jamestown meeting, and she always looked forward to receiving the Wingfield Family

- Thanks to Richard Webster

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torway service station, in a hotel,trars quoted a tab of jgst $600 forceremony plus reception, but that"castle hire." And how about for

Well, while Wingfield Castlevenue at this time, maybe someabout and considering the possi-

or wherever. East Sussex regis-the ceremony, or $1,300 for adid not appear to include theall the romantic t Winsfields?(bottom righ) is not an availableready Wingfields will be castingbility of tying the knot at one or

tershall Castle (left center), or how(lower left) or at the unique Restor-which is one of the four chief Nor-stormel Castle, built circa 1100, islar design. Once a luxurious resi-wall, it became ruined in the years

Many of us have beenatop Orford Castle on

WFS England tours.

another of our 'fomily castles" still standing in England - such as Orford (left) or maybe family/historic Kimbol-ton Castle (right), Deal Castleabove), or the vast 'keep' of Tat-

(center, far righ), or beautiful Sherborne Castle (center

about at Framlingham Castlemel Castle (above far right),man castles of Cornwall. Re-notable for its perfectly circu-dence for the Earl of Com-after the English Civil Wars, but it is still a popular locale for the public, now in the care of British Heritage.Getting married in any of them could be just magical! Kimbolton was a Wingfield family castle from 1523

to 1615 (see in the Winter/January newsletter, including its "haunting by the queen").It does wedding receptions but not wedding ceremonies.

Our ancestor of many in the Wingfield Society, Virginian Thomas Wingfieldof York River (emigrated to Virginia in 1680) stemmed from the Orford Ticken-cote Line and of Orford Castle. Orford has a fabulous banqueting hall createdcirca 1165l 1173, perfect for special Wingfield occasions - just choose a date !

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Sherborne Castle Restormel Castle

Kimbolton Castle

Wingfield Castle - yes; weddings - no.

ffi + Seven Royal Visits to the Wingfield Family ("s.) <> .._ * _,Ef One month after his coronation, King George IV (teft) visited Sir Richard Wingfield, W

5ft Viscount Powerscourt at Powerscourt, County Wicklow (below),Ireland. Previous to thisvisit, Sir Richard had dammed the adjacent River Dargle atop the Powerscourt Falls (lun,

397 feet high, the highest waterfall on the island of Ireland, one mile from Powerscourt House.His Lordship's plan was for the two of them to be near the foot of the falls one afternoon,

standing or siffing there on a newly constructed bridge. Then as he would describe that con-struction project to King George, the dam up above, holding back the water, would be blown anda huge torrent of water would be released, plunging downward and roaring past them as an eventto dramatically, favourably impress His Majesty, the young King George.

At lunchtime that day, in Powerscourt House, the King had (as usual) had "much drinktaken" and so the meal went on interminably - to such time and to such the King's condi-tion that he was unable to visit the falls that afternoon, which was the final day of his visit.Some days later, after King George's departure, the dam was blown up, the pent-up waterplummeted downward, and the bridge they would have been standing on was destroyed!

Thus the Wingfields would have accidentally assassinated the young monarch, King George IV,whose coronation was just one month earlier on July 19, 1821, at Westminster Abbey.

Thereafter, the huge chair uponing all his mealtimes was always knownand 'The Throne' was always kept into be "thefinest room in lreland."

which the King had sat dur-notably as "THE THRONE,""THE SALooN," which is said

-JJRWngfield / RM

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So three cheers for...... George or Charles?While 'proofing' page 4

we realized that the comingJulv Newsl etter w ould begreat for members to share with their cousinssome of their own ancestors' involvementsin the Revolutionary War including various

situations on both sides of the issue.Whaddya think?

That era's men and women. civiliansor soldiers (some 12 years old), believed theirjudgment was the right thing. Please tell usall about your ancestors' views and activities.We will help with spelling, etc., if you wish.

Send your info to the editor per themasthead (newsletter,p.2) or by phone

per the Membership Roster.

(Photo copies are welcome.)