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The Watson Family Website
A web site devoted to the Watson
family descended from Amos Watson, of Northallerton in North
Yorkshire. Amos was was born in 1843 and we have traced five
generations of descendants from his marriage with Mary Anne. We
now have entries from over 200 descendants in our database.
Latest Additions
20/12/2008 Site put back up with some parts removed.
Please accept my apologies for some of the tree files - in particular the
whole tree - I cant remember how I produced them last time !.
20/12/2008 Later. I've finally figured it out. Should now be working just
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Contents
The Story So Far
Why we started
When Wilfred
Hector Watson died in 1989 there was
amongst the possessions a large family bible. Typically for
bibles of this nature, it contained a significant amount of
family history and records.
Wilfred Hector Watson was one of a family of
fourteen, two boys and 12 girls. He had only one son, my father,
Wilfred Watson of Leyburn, North Yorkshire, which makes him the
the last surviving male in the Watson line, descended from William
Watson (1865-1952).
Where have we got to
My mother, Nan Watson has over the last few
years, through writing to many of the relatives, built up an
almost complete family tree. More recently we have been able to fill in some of
the missing details, and then we have put together this site including many
photographs and some snippets of the social history that surrounds the
family.
The Family Tree
There are two options to look at the family tree.
- You can view the whole tree at once in a single document.
(Click here
to do that now.)
- We have each of the separate sections of the
tree by major family members. Click here to go to the page that helps you find the
right part of the tree.
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Family Pages
The pages contain all the photographs and biographical information that we
have collected
- Amos Watson
- William Watson Family
- Violet Ethel Watson and Arthur Scott Family
- Ivy Watson and Thomas Judson Family
- Daisy Watson and Robert Smith
Family
- Alixe Kathleen Watson and Stanley Batts
Family
- Wilfred
Hector Watson Family
- Wilfred
Hector Watson Family - The recent generations
- Myrtle Idena Watson and Francis
Colborn Family
- Rupert Amos and the Baron family
- The West Wing including the Dixon family
Current Activity
- Filling in the details
- My interest is in the social history attached to the
family. We have the structure of the family tree, but
there are many details missing such as occupations,
places of birth, marriage and death. I am hoping to be
able to complete those details.
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- Researching The NZ/Australia Branch
- There is a significant arm of the family in the Antipodes. It would be great to get in touch and find
out when and why the family moved overseas...
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- Researching the Right Wing
- If we go back two generations from Wilfred Hector Watson
then we get back to Amos Watson (1843-1925). There is a
big part of the tree that we have no contact with any of today's descendants.
Mystery Persons
Help us to find the identify of some old photographs found in bottom drawers.
Go
there now
Send us a photo and we can publish it to help you.
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Acknowledgements
The site would simply not be here were it not for the efforts and
contribution of many of the Watson family. Thanks to everybody who has
contributed and specifically to:
- Nan Watson, without whom we would simply not have started at all, and
who pulled together the vast tree that we have.
- Peter Smith, who has provided many of the old photographs
- Kate Byrne who has filled in some of the gaps, and provided pictures
- Betty Scollick who has provide pictures, details and extensive memories
of the William Watson family members
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