Since our visit to Uppingham, we have tried in vain to find any record of Edwin, or his brother William attending Uppingham school as a day pupil or a border. We now have in our possession, a book listing everyone who attended from 1853 to 1947 and no where is there any mention of Edwin or William Winn. We even bought an envelope from eBay addressed to a Hugh Wylie at Uppingham school and he is listed!
Ten years on Edwin was apprenticed to a horse dealer in Hampton Lucy near Stratford Upon Avon, a William Wynn of Ryan House Stud Farm and William his brother, had moved to Nottingham and working for a cycle firm, was soon to be married, have three children in quick succession and then be widowed shortly after.
About this time Edwin changed the spelling of his surname from Winn to Wynn probably to further his business connections. More strange is the fact that his brother followed suit with the same change of spelling. Gerald Wynn, one of Edwin's seven sons (there was also a daughter) was my grandfather (he died in 1953) and is the person I was named after.
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