Hi Josephine Thanks for the details. Yes i do have them and the fact that it would appear brother and sister married at the same church has made us realise that this Joseph is unlikely to be ours along with other info from another researcher. Our Joseph Waters married Elizabeth Moody on 4/8/1811 at St John Bedminster so it is not likely he married twice as the double marriage is later (unless he maintained two families!). He and Elizabeth and 10 children between 1812 and 1829. In fact he died in July 1829 before the youngest was born. He committed suicide and i have a couple of newspaper articles, his burial and an admon in favour of wife Elizabeth. No mention is made of his parentage. He is noted as an accountant or a clerk and his sons went into Hatting whereas the other Josephs family seemed to have their roots in coalmining/landownership. I note there is another Waters family in Dymock Gloucestershire but have made no connections to them. Any ideas welcomed. Thanks Debbie Waters

On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:04:07 +0100, Mouseuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Our Joseph Waters married Elizabeth Moody on 4/8/1811 at St John > Bedminster > I note there is another Waters family in Dymock Gloucestershire but have > made no connections to them. > Any ideas welcomed. Hi Debbie, As your Joseph Waters was married in Bedminster, Somerset, perhaps his family came from Somerset rather than Gloucestershire. If you have the Marriage Index Vol 10 North Somerset Parishes 1754-1837, you could look at brides and grooms with the surname WATERS and note the churches where they married. This may give some idea of parishes where people called WATERS may have lived. This, of course, may be a red herring, but nothing ventured nothing gained. Josephine

Hi Debbie, I have a Mary Ann WATERS in my tree - she married my great-great-uncle Jesse MORGAN at Bristol St George in November 1852. Mary Ann was born in Bitton in about 1832 (christened in Hanham Abbots in September 1832). Her parents were George & Ann WATERS. George was a carpenter, born in Bitton about 1808, and was probably the son of Samuel & Ann WATERS as George and his family were with Samuel & Ann in the 1841 census. Samuel WATERS would have been born about 1775 and was a blacksmith. I also have an Ann WATERS born in Warmley about 1825. She married a distant cousin of mine, James QUARMAN, in May 1848 at St John Bedminster. Ann's parents were Benjamin & Sarah WATERS. Benjamin was born about 1799 and was a yeoman farmer at Grimsbury Farm, Warmley. (This might be the Benjamin WATERS whose baptism was mentioned in an earlier post by Josephine.) I haven't looked any further back into these WATERS families as I'm not really related to them, but I wonder if they would be connected to your WATERS family? Best regards, Jan > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 14:04:07 +0100 > Subject: [B&S] Waters > > Hi Josephine > > Thanks for the details. Yes i do have them and the fact that it would appear brother and sister married at the same church has made us realise that this Joseph is unlikely to be ours along with other info from another researcher. > Our Joseph Waters married Elizabeth Moody on 4/8/1811 at St John Bedminster so it is not likely he married twice as the double marriage is later (unless he maintained two families!). He and Elizabeth and 10 children between 1812 and 1829. In fact he died in July 1829 before the youngest was born. He committed suicide and i have a couple of newspaper articles, his burial and an admon in favour of wife Elizabeth. No mention is made of his parentage. He is noted as an accountant or a clerk and his sons went into Hatting whereas the other Josephs family seemed to have their roots in coalmining/landownership. > I note there is another Waters family in Dymock Gloucestershire but have made no connections to them. > > Any ideas welcomed. > > Thanks > > Debbie Waters > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message