My Family Tree

Bernard Paynter and his son William emigrated from Devonshire, England about 1820. Bernard had a bought a pair of forceps or bill-hook as he called it. William made his own. Should a person call holding onto his jaw William would stop shoeing a horse, take the bill-hook off the nail on the wall, wash off the dust and bugs in the barrel of water used to temper irons. A man had to lay down on his back, William sat on his chest and stumped out the tooth. A sore jaw but no more tooth ache. Women set up on a bench, No record can be found of his charges. These forceps can be seen at "Woodleigh" and "Old Mill Museum". From a History of Long River, Prince Edward Island from the Island Lives website

Bernard and Susannah had two sons named William - one baptized in September 1818, died in December 1819, the other baptized in July 1820. William's sister Sophia said the family emigrated when she was about 6, in 1827 or 1828. Her younger sister Matilda was born on the Island in 1828.

William married Matilda Mann.

Name William Paynter
Age 85
Date of Death 29 April 1904
Source pre-1906 Death Index. St. Mark's Anglican Church, Kensington, Book 1
Notes Buried St. Thomas Churchyard, French River

William didn't leave a will, and no admin papers for the estate were filed.

There was another William Paynter in Lot 21, possibly a cousin, who married Mary Ann Hacker. He died in 1880 at the age of 73.