William Wainman was born in 1804 in England. Baptised on May 27, 1804 at St. Mary Church in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, William was born to William Wainman and Ruth Knowles. William was the oldest of seven children.
1825: William married a woman named Mary Bright at the same church, St. Mary, in Nottingham on April 3, 1825. Mary may have died by 1826, or it is possible that she stayed in England when William left for America. This is a difficult thing to trace, as the records do not seem to exist for Mary Bright after 1825 and he disappears from English records at this time.
1827: William Wainman arrives in New York City on July 6, 1827 on board the ship Hercules.
1830: William appears for the first time in the US Census in 1830 in New York City, Ward 12.
1840: William's place of residence on June 1, 1840 in the Federal Census is defined as the Town of Williamsburgh in Kings County. That is now a section of Brooklyn within New York City. It is around this time that William would have married who is believed to be his second wife- another woman by the name of Mary. We know this is not the same person as the first wife because the census records a great difference between the women's ages: the first wife having been born in 1806, the second Mary in 1816. They begin having children starting in 1839 with James A. Wainman. The rest of their children are: Margaret Wainman (1842), William G. Wainman (1848), Harriet Wainman (1852), Charles E. Wainman (1855), and Mary E. Wainman (1859).
1850: In the 1850 Census, William is called a weaver and he is living with his wife Mary and three children, James (11), Margaret (8), and William (2) in New York City's Ward 13. Both James and Margaret are listed as attending school in the last year.
1852: William Wainman attains US Naturalized Citizenship on May 28 1852 at the age of 48.
1860: William, at 56, is still living in Brooklyn, New York. He is listed as a stocking weaver and his personal estate is valued at 500 dollars. His wife Mary is now 45. His eldest son James, listed as a machinist, is 21 years old. His daughter Margaret is now married and living with her husband and young son elsewhere. His son William (12) and daughter Harriet (8) are in school. Charles (5) and baby Mary (6 months old) are at home with their mother.
1870: By the 1870 Census, William is no longer living in the United States. The next records we have for him are back in England. It is believed between 1860 and 1870 that his wife, Mary died and William returned to England. This would explain why in the 1870 US Census, William, Charles and Harriet are living with their older sister, Margaret and her husband Edward. The youngest daughter Mary, is not to be seen again in a census record. There is a record that she may have married someone named Daniel Brewer in 1884, however, this record with all of the available data has not been reviewed yet to prove this is the same Mary Wainman.
1873: William Wainman seems to have returned to Nottingham, his initial home, and married a woman named Harriet Preston. Harriet was born in 1833, and was 40 when she married the 69 year old William. The couple had a son, John George Wainman in 1874.
1876: William Wainman died in 1876 at the age of 72 years. He left a number of descendents both in the United States and England.
It should be noted that two lines of Thelma Brewer's family trace their lineage to William Wainman. Thelma's mother and her father seem to have been second cousins. This was not uncommon back in the early twentieth and late nineteenth centuries. This is how the family tree works for this line:
William Wainman
Margaret Wainman
William Baines
Mabel I. Baines
Thelma Brewer
Robert M. Brewer
Mary Wainman
James A. Wainman
William Wainman
William Wainman was the father to both Margaret and James A. Wainman.
William Baines and Mary Wainman are 1st Cousins.
Mabel I. Baines and Robert M. Brewer are 2nd Cousins.
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