The Doynton Anstees

by Gary. M. Anstey, chief researcher of the Anstey story project.

• Overview of the Doynton Anstees
• DO 1. Robert Anstee (b 1780 Codrington)
• DO 2. Robert Anstee (b 1814 Doynton)
• DO 3. William Anstee (b 1816 Doynton)
• DO 4. John Anstee (b 1817 Doynton)
• DO 5. George Anstee (b 1825 Doynton)
• DO 6. Edward Anstee (b 1830 Doynton)
• DO 7. John Alvis Anstey (b 1839 Doynton)
• DO 8. George Anstee (b 1845 Doynton)
• DO 9. Edwin Anstee (b 1853 Doynton)
• DO 10. James Anstee (b 1838 Doynton)
• DO 11. George Anstee (b 1840 Doynton)
• DO 12. John Anstee (b 1842 Doynton)
• DO 13. William Anstey (b 1850 Doynton)
• DO 14. Robert Anstee (b 1860 Doynton)
• DO 15. Thomas Anstee (b 1863 Doynton)
• DO 16. Robert Anstee (b 1847 Pucklechurch)
• DO 17. Thomas Burchill Anstee (b 1858 Pucklechurch)
• DO 18. Henry Anstee (b 1861 Wellow)
• DO 19. John Anstee (b 1865 Wellow)
• DO 20. George Thomas Anstee (b 1850 Doynton)
• DO 21. Jesse Anstee (b 1854 Doynton)
• DO 22. John Robert Anstee (b 1856 Doynton)
• DO 23. Albert Alfred Anstee (b 1857 Doynton)
• DO 24. Edwin Anstee (b 1863 Doynton)
• DO 25. Edward Anstee (b 1856 Doynton)
• DO 26. John Anstee (b 1857 Doynton)
• DO 27. Elizabeth Mary Anstee (b 1859 Doynton – Mrs Ettle)
• DO 28. Colin Anstee (b 1866 Doynton)
• DO 29. Sidney Anstee (b 1869 Wick)
• DO 30. Alexander Anstee (b 1879 Bitton)
• DO 31. Arthur Robert Anstey (b 1875 Wick)
• DO 32. Alfred Anstey (b 1876 Wick)
• DO 33. William Robert Anstee (b 1884 Langridge)
• DO 34. John Arthur Anstee (b 1879 Rodmarton)
• DO 35. Richard George Denly Anstee (b 1880 Castle Combe)
• DO 36. Albert Edward Anstee (b 1877 Wick)
• DO 37. Herbert Anstee (b 1874 Crudwell – exempted during World War One)
• DO 38. James Robert Anstee (b 1875 Cold Ashton – served during World War One)
• DO 39. Gilbert Anstee (b 1876 Bitton – served during World War One);
• DO 40. Edward Anstey (b 1880 Doynton – served during World War One)
• DO 41. Edward John Anstee (b 1880 Bedminster – served during World War One)
• DO 42. George Anstee (b 1880 Doynton – served during World War One)
• DO 43. Walter Edward Anstee (b 1880 Rodmarton – exempted during World War One)
• DO 44. William John Anstey (b 1882 Weston – served during World War One)
• DO 45. Sidney Anstey (b 1883 Bedminster – served during World War One)
• DO 46. Herbert Anstey (b 1884 Weston – served during World War One)
• DO 47. William Joseph Anstee (b 1884 Wick – served during World War One)
• DO 48. Ernest Robert Anstee (b 1885 Lacock – exempted during World War One)
• DO 49. Edwin Anstee (b 1886 Doynton – served during World War One)
• DO 50. Ralph Anstee (b 1887 Lacock – served during World War One)
• DO 51. Walter John Anstee (b 1887 Westbury on Trym – served and died during World War One)
• DO 52. Walter Reginald Anstey (b 1889 Henbury – served during World War One)
• DO 53. Robert Anstee (b 1890 Henbury – served during World War One)
• DO 54. Nigel Victor Anstee (b 1892 Stanton – served during World War One)
• DO 55. Wilfred Alfred Anstey (b 1892 Westbury – served during World War One)
• DO 56. Henry George Anstey (b 1893 Weston – served during World War One)
• DO 57. Herbert George Anstey (b 1893 Westbury – served during World War One)
• DO 58. Rachel Doreen Anstee (b 1893 Malmesbury – served during World War One)
• DO 59. William Robert Douglas Anstey (b 1894 Weston – served during World War One)
• DO 60. George Anstey (b 1896 Bedminster – served during World War One)
• DO 61. Hubert Stanley Anstee (b 1896 Oldland – served during World War One)
• DO 62. Robert Albert Anstey (b 1896 Winterbourne Down – served during World War One)
• DO 63. Colin Anstee (b 1897 Oldland – served during World War One)
• DO 64. Alfred Richard John Anstey (b 1898 Weston – served and died during World War One) 
• DO 65. Alfred John Anstee (b 1899 Frome – served during World War One) 
• Further Details on the Doynton Anstees

Overview of the Doynton Anstees

The Doynton Anstees are a sub-branch of the Dyrham Ansteys and hence connect to the South Gloucestershire Anstey pedigree. We need to be somewhat careful with our labelling of the Doynton Anstees because quite a few Dyrham Ansteys moved to Doynton at various times during the 1800s (see Further Details #1). However, the ‘true’ Doynton Anstees are only those descendent from Robert Anstey (DO 1), who moved to Doynton in c1810.

Also see ‘Anstey: A Complete History From the Norman Invasion to World War One‘.

Further Details on the Doynton Anstees

#1. Other families also moved to Doynton in the early 1800s, but they are not Doynton Anstees. For example, John Anstey (DY 16) married Mary Stephens in 1823 in Dyrham. This couple moved to Doynton in about 1826 and had six children, including George Anstey (DY 24 – b 1826, not to be confused with George Anstee (DO 5 – b 1825)); and Cornelius Anstey (DY 25). Despite living in Doynton for a short while, this family is part of the Dyrham Anstey sub-branch, not the Doynton Anstees, as they had moved on by c1840. Similarly George Anstey (DY 31) moved to Doynton in c1840 and had numerous children there, but the family had moved away by c1856 – they are also part of the Dyrham Anstey sub-branch. Ditto John Anstey (DY 36) who had a family in Doynton from the 1870s, but he is still a Dyrham Anstey (ditto numerous of his sons who were born in Doynton in the 1870s and 1880s and some remained there). Ditto Aaron Anstey (DY 21) who was actually the nephew of the Doynton patriarch and did live in Doynton for a substantial period, but he is still officially a Dyrham Anstey.

Occasionally Dyrham Ansteys married Doynton Anstees, so their children were both Dyrham Ansteys and Doynton Anstees. For example William Anstey (DY 60) married his somewhat distant cousin Edith Annie Anstee (daughter of George Anstee (DO 8)) in Doynton in 1901. They had a son Percy (b 1907) who was buried in Dyrham in 1990.

#2. Thomas Anstee, buried in Doynton in 1814 “aged 68“, was son of Robert Anstee (DY 6) and Betty Gunning of the Dyrham Ansteys.

#3. ‘Letty Anstee‘ born c1885 Wick was living with her uncle John Bowker at 37 Morse Road Redfield in the 1911 Census. She is certainly a Doynton Anstee but we cannot connect her as ‘Letty’ is probably a nickname

Also see ‘Anstey: A Complete History From the Norman Invasion to World War One‘.

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