Winton Family History & Genealogy

Maximillan Winton of Tarrant County, TX was born circa 1953. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Maximillan Winton.

Susan E Winton of Tarrant County, TX was born circa 1958. Susan Winton was married to Maximillan Winton on April 28, 1986 in Brazos County, TX and they separated on April 27, 1987 in Tarrant County. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Susan E. (Janik) Winton.

Robin Winton was born on August 13, 1956 in Maidenhead, Berkshire County, England United Kingdom, and died at age 6 years old on August 13, 1962. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robin Winton.

Robert Winton was born on October 23, 1914 in Greater London County, England United Kingdom, and died at age 94 years old on March 10, 2009. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert Winton.

Charlotte Winton was born on June 11, 1908 in United Kingdom, and died at age 87 years old on February 4, 1996 in Camden Town, Greater London County, England. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charlotte Winton.

NICHOLAS WINTON AND THE RESCUE OF CHILDREN FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1938–1939 Nicholas Winton organized a rescue operation that brought approximately 669 children, mostly Jewish, from Czechoslovakia to safety in Great Britain before the outbreak of World War II. Nicholas Winton was born Nicholas Wertheimer on May 19, 1909, in West Hampstead, England, and baptized as a member of the Anglican Church by decision of his parents who were of German Jewish ancestry. He was a stockbroker by profession. In December 1938, Martin Blake, a friend and an instructional master at the Westminster School in London, asked Winton to forego his planned ski vacation and visit him in Czechoslovakia, where he had traveled in his capacity as an associate of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia. This committee had been established in October 1938 to provide assistance for refugees created by the German annexation of the Sudeten regions under the terms of the Munich Pact. Convinced that a European war was imminent, Winton decided to go. In Prague, Blake introduced Winton to his colleague, Doreen Wariner, and arranged for him to visit refugee camps filled to capacity with Jews and political opponents from the Sudetenland. After Munich, Winton had been certain that the Germans would occupy the rest of Bohemia and Moravia before long. He had been alarmed further by the violence against the Jewish community in Germany and Austria during the Kristallnacht riots in November 1938. When he heard of subsequent efforts of Jewish agencies in Britain to rescue German and Austrian Jewish children on the so-called Kindertransport, an effort that eventually brought about 10,000 unaccompanied children to safety in Great Britain, Winton summoned a small group of people to organize a similar rescue operation for children imperiled by the impending German dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Winton immediately established a Children's Section and, using the name of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, initially without authorization, began taking applications from parents at his hotel in Prague. As his operation expanded, he opened an office in central Prague. Soon, thousands of parents lined up outside of Winton's Children Section's office seeking a safe haven for their children. Winton returned to London to organize the rescue operation on that end. He raised money to fund the transports of the children and the 50 pound per child guarantee demanded by the British government to fund the children's eventual departure from Britain. He also had to find British families willing to care for the refugee children. By day, Winton worked at his regular job on the Stock Exchange, and then devoted late afternoons and evenings to his rescue efforts. He made a great effort to raise money and find foster homes to bring as many children as possible to safety. The first transport of children organized by Winton left Prague by plane for London on March 14, 1939, the day before the Germans occupied the Czech lands. After the Germans established a Protectorate in the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, Winton organized seven further transports that departed by rail out of Prague and across Germany to the Atlantic Coast, then by ship across the English Channel to Britain. At the train station in London, British foster parents waited to collect the children. The last trainload of children left Prague on August 2, 1939. Rescue activities ceased when Germany invaded Poland and Britain declared war in Germany in early September 1939. The total number of children rescued through Winton's efforts is not yet certain. According to a scrapbook he kept, 664 children came to Great Britain on transports that he organized. In the research compiled for the documentary “The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton,” aired on Czech television in 2002, researchers identified five additional persons who entered Britain on a Winton-financed transport, bringing the official number to 669 children. The available information indicates that some children who were rescued have not yet been identified. After the war, Nicholas Winton's rescue efforts remained virtually unknown. It was not until 1988, when his wife Grete found a scrapbook from 1939 with all the children's photos and a complete list of names of those rescued that Winton's rescue efforts became known. Winton since received a letter of thanks from the late Ezer Weizman, former president of the State of Israel, and was made an honorary citizen of Prague in the independent Czech Republic. In 2002, Winton received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to humanity.

Grete (Gjelstrup) Winton was born on December 21, 1919 in Denmark, and died at age 79 years old on August 28, 1999 in England United Kingdom. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Grete (Gjelstrup).

Barbara Winton was born on October 23, 1953 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire County, England United Kingdom to Nicholas Winton and Grete (Gjelstrup), and had siblings Nicholas Winton Jr and Robin Winton. Barbara Winton died at age 68 years old on September 20, 2022. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Barbara Winton.

Nicholas Winton Jr was born in 1952 in United Kingdom to Nicholas Winton and Grete (Gjelstrup), and has siblings Barbara Winton and Robin Winton. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Nicholas Winton Jr.

Raymond S Winton of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California was born on January 15, 1916, and died at age 63 years old in August 1979. Raymond Winton was buried at Riverside National Cemetery Section 7 Site 1B Van Buren Boulevard, in Riverside.

Lonnie L Winton of Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, TX was born on September 21, 1914, and died at age 75 years old on June 23, 1990.

Roger Allen Winton of Highlands, Harris County, Texas was born on January 23, 1951, and died at age 56 years old on May 22, 2007.

Gene H Winton of Stephenville, Erath County, TX was born on August 29, 1931, and died at age 64 years old on June 27, 1996.

Victor A Winton of Buffalo, Erie County, NY was born on October 12, 1908, and died at age 63 years old in May 1972.

Thomas D Winton of Spokane, Spokane County, Washington was born on September 29, 1901, and died at age 84 years old in September 1985.

Roy W Winton of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas was born on January 25, 1906, and died at age 77 years old in June 1983.

Donald R Winton of Huntington, Wayne County, WV was born on October 3, 1924, and died at age 78 years old on January 1, 2003.

Peter Jacob Winton of Texas was born on April 4, 1958, and died at age 51 years old on March 23, 2010.

John E Winton of Newcastle, Placer County, CA was born on January 2, 1924, and died at age 69 years old on November 14, 1993.

John D Winton of Somerville, Morgan County, AL was born on August 15, 1922, and died at age 79 years old on March 12, 2002.