| GENERAL NOTES |
 Walter Lyon Sinton 1858 - 1933Photograph taken 19th October 1907 Original in the possession of his niece Eleanor M. Watson (née Sinton) Bruckless, Co. Donegal, Republic of Ireland in October 2005 Quaker Records Ireland - Birth Details Name: Walter Lyon Sinton Gender: Son Date of Birth: 10d 3mo 1858 Place of Birth: Bessbrook, Co. Armagh Parents: John & Eleanor Sinton Parents' Residence: Bessbrook, Co. Armagh Description of Father: Registration Meeting: Lurgan Meeting, Volume 6, Page 102 [RFSS Jul 2005] There is correspondence from him in LBS [Lulu Bell Sinton, Colorado] files. He is known to have been the eldest son, so born very soon after the death of WLS the first. DMS gives 10 May as this Walter Lyon's birth "born 6.24 a.m., Wednesday, 1858 at Bessbrook". JRHG insisted that there were two WLS. This is Walter Lyon whose compilation of the Sinton family was the foundation from which all the various genealogies started. WLS's research was organized and greatly augmented by Ronald Greeves (JRHG), who then passed it on to researchers all over the world. From LBS notes of about 1935: "Walter's two sons, one a mechanical engineer, who over worked during the Great War, and died soon after - the other was a surgeon in the Indian Service of Great Britain, was given many decorations for heroic service in the Mesopotamian campaign, among which were the Victoria Cross and a decoration by the Tzar of Russia shortly before he was dethroned. He is now properly addressed as Lieut-Colonel John A. Sinton V.C., Ulsterville Road, Belfast, North Ireland." Walter Lyon Sinton died 28 Sep 1933 after an operation, in San Francisco, Calif. where he had been a resident with his second wife. In another place LBS says: "Walter Lyon Sinton - a sketch, as I knew him. Before going further, I find it desirable to tell of him whose name I have so often mentioned, as I knew him, and heard from him his reasons for the life he was living. Early in this century he came to Colorado Springs (1905), in one of his trips across the continent. He had made a practice for many years to look in directories of any city or town where he happened to be for the name Sinton. He had in mind some of the name, who were near to his family, and who had dropped out of Ireland some years before he first came over (David of Cincinnati). If I can trust my memory, he had made something like twenty trips across the Atlantic before he died. When we first knew him, he was a handsome, and beautifully mannered man, with a cultivated British voice. He was quite the typical Saintone {sic) physically. Being the eldest of the children of John Sinton and Eleanor Hemington (she an English woman) who were married 21 May 1853. He was born March 10, 1857 (sic), he had broken loose from his position as eldest son of a linen manufacturing family. He had advocated advanced ideas on governmental, economic, and religious questions, and his family fearing that he would wreck the family fortunes, took means to displace him from his accepted position as the family head. So he had come to America and had been for some years trying to find a place in the new world scheme of things. His wife decided to return to Ireland and the bosom of the family, where she with their six children remained. He returned several times, and efforts were made by both sides to find a ground for reconcilement, but apparently no common understanding could be reached. He wrote me from Vancouver, about 1906 or 1907 that he had just returned from Ireland again - that every one had been kind, and wanted him to remain, but he had grown out of sympathy with their views and life. So, he had made up his mind to never go back again, but to remain on this side and follow his own light. As long as his mother lived he was provided with an allowance, and in addition she provided for his family - educating his children and making a home for them and their mother. "Which one of them secured the divorce I do not know, but he later married a much younger woman who was in sympathy with his ideals. She was a business woman and was independent of his support. He did much writing and teaching of philosophical economics (I am not sure that he would so name his activities, but that is as near as I can come to an interpretation of them.) He is now a very old man and so ill that I would not be surprised to hear at any time of his last journey to the Great Beyond. His wife stays by and supports their home. A young friend and disciple lives with them, and I suspect, helps out in many ways. They live in San Francisco. I hear from Walter several times a year. His last letter, within the month, said that he was to have a surgical operation, which might help him to live more comfortably - or might make him worse, or, perhaps help him out of life. (I do not remember the date of the above, but soon after I received word of his death on September 28, 1933 - the date of his last letter was Sep 19, 1933. All this may appear unnecessary, and yet I hope that I have not in any way drawn an unfair picture of this connecting link between the Irish and American Sintons. But for his coming among us this record would never, likely, have been given form. On his first visit here we learned that he was a fourth cousin, once removed, to Joseph Sinton (O'Brien) ... and I feel sure that it was his account of us that gave the Friends Historical Society of Dublin, the data for that designation (Sintons of Colorado Springs). Also he said that he had visited David Sinton of Cincinnati, who was a first cousin to his father." [JHJ] In the first two paragraphs above mention is made about two sons named Walter Lyon. In fact there was only one but from Quaker records I have found that he had a brother Robert born 13d 5mo 1859 and died 1d 6mo 1859. As Walter would only have been fourteen months old when Robert was born he would not have remembered the event and obviously it was never talked about in his presence when he was older. This would explain Robert's omission from the WLS complitation. Quaker birth details for all John & Eleanor's children can be viewed on the website at Quaker Births and Robert's burial details at Quaker Burials [RFSS Aug 2005] Walter Lyon was living in Wheatfield House, Portadown, Co. Armagh, in November 1890 (from will of John Sinton of Ravarnet, Co. Down) and March 1892 (from will of Jacob Sinton of Annagh, Co. Armagh). [RFSS Feb 2003] Quaker Records Ireland - Disownment / Resignation Details Name: Walter Lyon Sinton Date: 14th 4th mo. 1892 Meeting: Lisburn Record Location: Microfilm Reel 20,197 (Record book held in Lisburn) Action: Disowned Reason(s): Name to be removed from the list. Note that he was disowned yesterday. [RFSS Jul 2012] Ellis Island Passenger Record The surname has been incorrectly transcribed as Suiton First Name: Mr. Walter L. Last Name: Suiton Ethnicity: Ireland, Irish Last Place of Residence: Date of Arrival: Feb 27, 1894 Age at Arrival: 35y Gender: M Marital Status: Ship of Travel: Aurania (1883) Port of Departure: Liverpool and Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0233 [RFSS Mar 2011] Border Crossings From Canada to United States 1895-1956 Name: Walter L. Sinton Arrival Date: 13 Nov 1904 Arrival Port: Montreal, Quebec, England Age: 47 Estimated Birth Year: 1857 Gender: Male Race: Irish Last Residence: Haley Ido Departure Port: Liverpool, England Ship Name: Lake Manitoba NARA Publication Title: Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954 NARA Publication Number: M1464 NARA Roll Number: 24 [RFSS Mar 2011] United States Census, 15 April 1910 Name: Walter L. Sinton Event Type: Census Event Year: 1910 Event Place: San Francisco Assembly District 31, San Francisco, California, United States Gender: Male Age: 52 Marital Status: Married Race: White Race (Original): White Relationship to Head of Household: Lodger Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Lodger Birth Year (Estimated): 1858 Birthplace: Ireland Immigration Year: 1877 Father's Birthplace: Ireland Mother's Birthplace: England District: 20 Sheet Number and Letter: 7A Household ID: 57 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: M1283 GS Film number: 1374109 Digital Folder Number: 004327299 Image Number: 00434 [RFSS Mar 2011] United States Census, 1 April 1920 Name: Walter L. Sinton Residence: , Pierce, Washington Estimated Birth Year: 1859 Age: 61 Birthplace: Ireland Relationship to Head of Household: Self Gender: Male Race: White Marital Status: Married Father's Birthplace: Ireland Mother's Birthplace: England Film Number: 1821937 Digital Folder Number: 4390970 Image Number: 00596 Sheet Number: 8 Household Gender Age Walter L Sinton M 61y Spouse Etta M Sinton F 37y [RFSS Mar 2011] United States Census 1 April 1930 Name: Walter L. Sinton Event: Census Event date: 1930 Event place: San Francisco (Districts 251-409), San Francisco, California Gender: Male Age: 72 Marital status: Married Race: White Birthplace: Northern Ireland Estimated birth year: 1858 Immigration year: Relationship to head of household: Head Father's birthplace: Northern Ireland Mother's birthplace: England Enumeration district number: 0328 Family number: 232 Sheet number and letter: 16A Line number: 18 Nara publication: T626, roll 207 Film number: 2339942 Digital folder number: 4532354 Image number: 00124 Household Gender Age Birthplace Head Walter L. Sinton M 72 Northern Ireland Wife Etta Sinton F 47 Washington Lodger Kate Waters F 71 Illinois Lodger Ethel Garlick F 61 England [RFSS Sep 2012] California Death Index Name: Walter L. Sinton Event Date: 28 Sep 1933 Event Place: , San Francisco, California, United States Gender: Male Age: 75 Birth Year (Estimated): 1858 Certificate Number: 51473 [RFSS Sep 2017] |
| MARRIAGE NOTES |
 Marriage Certificate of Walter Lyon Sinton and Isabella Mary Pringle - 9 Jun 1880Ireland Marriages Groom's Name: Walter Lyon Sinton Bride's Name: Isabella Mary Pringle Marriage Date: 9 Jun 1880 Marriage Place: National Register Of Quakers, , , Ireland Registration District: Banbridge Volume Number: 1 Page Number: 261 Index Number: 46 [RFSS Mar 2011] |
| SOURCES |
| [ s136 ] | Ancestral File - THE SINTON FAMILY - Page 1-13 Ref. 32a - Walter Lyon Sinton / Lulu Bell Sinton / John Ronald Howard Greeves / Robert Francis Speers Sinton / Ann Heacock Sinton - Version 1.01 (Feb 2003] |
| [ s696 ] | Church Record - Religious Society of Friends, Lurgan, Co. Armagh - Monthly Meeting Birth Register - QLB-102 View Source |
| [ s1374 ] | Marriage Certificate - Marriage of Walter Lyon Sinton and Isabella Mary Pringle on 9 June 1880 in Friends Meeting House, Bessbrook, Co. Armagh, Ireland, United Kingdom - Registration District: Banbridge, Volume Number: 1, Page Number: 261, Index Number: 46 - MC1880-09-06-WLS-IMP |
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