Hi John, I realize this is the Northumbria list but I have an Ann Watson, who married my 3 x's g grandfather in Wooler, Northumberland in 1766.  I wonder if the family you are researching may be related to Ann?  Cousins perhaps?   Susan ________________________________ From: John Ayton <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:47 AM Subject: [NMB] Raven and Fairless Allendale Stanhope Hi, I know a few others have an interest in the descendants of Anthony Raven who mostly lived in Upper Weardale and died there in 1753. His daughter Sarah Raven married Edward Fairless in 1749. I have found recently a little more about Anthony Raven's family. Anthony was baptised at Allendale 20.5.1691. He was the son of William Raven and Jane Watson. Many years ago I found a reference to this family in the will of Jane Watson's sister and brother in law (William Fairless and Sarah Watson). Recently I found that William Raven married Jane Watson 23.11.1681 at Hesket in the Forest Cumberland. I think that this marriage has only recently come on Familysearch. William Raven and Jane Watson also baptised a son Joseph Raven  in that parish Joseph 21.12.1681.. A John Raven and a Robert Raven were also baptising children in that parish at that time. Indeed Robert Raven had a daughter Mary baptised on the same day as Joseph Raven in 1681. William Raven and Jane Watson had 3 more chi! ldren in Allendale that I know of--Sarah 4.11.1683, Anthony and Jacob who drowned at the Holmes in 1705. Sarah Raven appears to have married Joseph Dawson in 1702 in Stanhope.Jane Watson was the eldest daughter of Anthony Watson and Elizabeth Nevin of Huntwell. The Watsons were a well documented Quaker family.. I am still trying to find the marriage of Anthony Raven to an Elizabeth about 1715.. Yours John Ayton                          .. Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- 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

Susan: Watson, originally meaning "the son of Watt", is a VERY common surname throughout the region covered by this List (the old counties of Northumberland and Co Durham). If you don't live within the region, then perhaps you do not fully realise how large it is, both in terms of mileage between places and of population, in historic times as well as in the present. At any time in the last 400 or so years there will have been numerous Watson families in all parts of the region, many of them quite unrelated to any of the others, so to a local person the suggestion that a Watson family from, say, Weardale, might be related to one from, say, Wooler, does sound rather silly - unless, of course, there is already some known evidence which points that way. A more general comment on the same lines is that English patronymics (surnames ending in -son) are far more common in the north than in the south of the country. They have always been found to some extent all over England, of course, and the result of the enhanced mobility brought about by the railway, among other things, has been to "stir the mixture" quite a lot. Hence it is not as obvious nowadays as it might once have been. Nevertheless, those -son surnames do form a much greater proportion of the population in the north of England then they do elsewhere. Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Susan C <[email protected]> To: northumbria <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:10 Subject: Re: [NMB] Raven and Fairless Allendale Stanhope Hi John, I realize this is the Northumbria list but I have an Ann Watson, who married my 3 x's g grandfather in Wooler, Northumberland in 1766. I wonder if the family you are researching may be related to Ann? Cousins perhaps? Susan

HI I doubt that they are connected unless your Ann was a Quaker Sent from my iPad On 22 Apr 2013, at 16:09, "Susan C" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > I realize this is the Northumbria list but I have an Ann Watson, who married my 3 x's g grandfather in Wooler, Northumberland in 1766. I wonder if the family you are researching may be related to Ann? Cousins perhaps? > > > Susan > > > ________________________________ > From: John Ayton <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:47 AM > Subject: [NMB] Raven and Fairless Allendale Stanhope > > > Hi, I know a few others have an interest in the descendants of Anthony Raven who mostly lived in Upper Weardale and died there in 1753. His daughter Sarah Raven married Edward Fairless in 1749. I have found recently a little more about Anthony Raven's family. Anthony was baptised at Allendale 20.5.1691. He was the son of William Raven and Jane Watson. Many years ago I found a reference to this family in the will of Jane Watson's sister and brother in law (William Fairless and Sarah Watson). Recently I found that William Raven married Jane Watson 23.11.1681 at Hesket in the Forest Cumberland. I think that this marriage has only recently come on Familysearch. William Raven and Jane Watson also baptised a son Joseph Raven in that parish Joseph 21.12.1681.. A John Raven and a Robert Raven were also baptising children in that parish at that time. Indeed Robert Raven had a daughter Mary baptised on the same day as Joseph Raven in 1681. William Raven and Jane > Watson had 3 more chi! > ldren in Allendale that I know of--Sarah 4.11.1683, Anthony and Jacob who drowned at the Holmes in 1705. Sarah Raven appears to have married Joseph Dawson in 1702 in Stanhope.Jane Watson was the eldest daughter of Anthony Watson and Elizabeth Nevin of Huntwell. The Watsons were a well documented Quaker family.. I am still trying to find the marriage of Anthony Raven to an Elizabeth about 1715.. Yours John Ayton > .. > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > 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 > .. > Please remember to snip most of the earlier message before you post any reply...... Thank you! > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > 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