Elizabeth (Betsy) Bird^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1757 - 1837  (80 years)

• Name	Elizabeth (Betsy) Bird
  Nickname	Aunt Winstone
  Born	1757	Ridgeway Devon
  Gender	Female
  Died	22 Apr 1837
  Age	80 years
  Buried	Holy Trinity Staplet Hayward Winstone Vault Oldbury Bristol
  Person ID	I42	Curtis Hayward
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Henry Bird,   b. The Grove Plympton, Devon, England ,   d. 1791
  Mother	Elizabeth Biggs
  Family ID	F73	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Hayward Winstone,   b. 1743,   d. 26 Oct 1818  (Age 75 years)
  Married	11 Feb 1782
  Children	1. Henrietta Hayward Winstone,   b. 24 Nov 1782, Died In Infancy ,   d. April 16th 1789  (Age 6 years)
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2020
  Family ID	F18	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Known as Aunt Winstone to the Byrde family. Was very close to her ostracized brother Henry and his children. Less so his wife who wasn't the same class.She wrote terse letters about their finances which wasn't entirely fair as they were miserably poor and had all to work on the farm as it then was,there being only a small pension and some canal shares. She almost certainly helped them financially. Had nearly all of the daughters to stay at Quedegely and Bath and married one or more of them off. It must have been a revelation to them to leave their rustic surroundings for the relative sophistication of Bath. Appointed cousin Maria Arnold Biggs spinster executor of her will and left her £20 pa payable Feb and August. Maria was to hold in trust for Albinia's niece Francis all her estate not otherwise entailed as a life interest. The estate was then to pass on to Francis's children Living at 18 Park S't in 1822 and still there in 1826. Her husband's will said that she should "choose Bath or the vicinity for residence and have a selection from the house in Great Bedford S't or the place of residence at my death" (18 Park St) On their return from their wedding tour they found one of the family Bibles open at Rev 18:2 with the word Babylon struck out and Oldbury substituted so that it ran "Oldbury the great is fallen and is become a cage of every unclean and hateful bird". Sir Thomas Hayward  Southby is believed to have been responsible for this. Had the habit of continually saying "switter switter switter", Her husband had the family capacity for sneezing and could do so twenty times running when this happened she used to say "God bless you my dear can't you stop switter switter switter can't you stop switter switter switter" Small pencil sketch of her by Reynolds

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] From jotting about the Hayward family by the Rev W. winstone Curtis Hayward 1888. (Reliability: 0). [S1] letter from Mr Byrde of Goytrey House Pontypool 8/4/1940 (Reliability: 0). [S6] W.F. Butler Says cottage Says Lane Langford BS18 7EA (Reliability: 0). [S28] Will of Elizabeth Hayward Winstone ( Betsy Bird) (Reliability: 0).