Backhouse/Wynter/Gratze

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~pillagoda/genealogy/ch13-03.htm

Dr Walter Essex Wynter of Bartholomew Manor, Newbury wrote on 29.5.1942 that the first John Winter at the head of his family tree (b. 1750, d. 1818) who appeared in the Bristol Parliamentary voting list in 1792, was a manufacturer of high decorative combs in the Empire period and no doubt transferred from Madrid where he was brought up.

The surname Winter seems to have existed in Spain, settled by Flemings who came with Philip "le Bel" of Hapsburg, Duke of Burgundy (king of Spain by right of his wife Juana "la Loca") and also during later reigns because the Spanish Hapsburg inherited the Netherlands. On 4.2.1562 Arnold Berde alias Wynter, a Spanish subject, paid customs of 6s.8d as an alien in England. (Calendar Patent Rolls, Elizabeth 1560-1563).

Dr. Winter thought his branch of the family settled in Armagh either in Elizabethan or Cromwellian times and was associated with the Duke of Ormond in the Pretender's risings in 1715 or 1745.

There was a marriage of John Delap and Anne Winter at Richmond Hill, Ballyhagen, Armagh on 8.5.1745 ("Irish & Scotch Irish Ancestral Research"- Margaret Dickson Falley, FSG America from records of French Huguenot churches in Ireland & "The French Settlement at Youghal, Co. Cork" - Rev. Sam. Hayman) and there is a monument to John Delap Halliday in Halesowen, Worcestershire so perhaps the Delappes or de l'Epées were Walloons originally from Flanders where the surname L'Epée survives.

The Huguenot family of Delappe went to Youghal in Ireland (Huguenot Records, Guildhall library) where they they became one of the principal families, recorded in the Irish church and their ranks in military records (1689-91). They thought highly of one of the Dukes of Ormond (Butler) who helped them.

An old Miss Winter from Armagh told Dr Winter's aunt Emily Webb (then a child a 100 years ago) never to forget that she was a Butler.