----- Original Message ----- From: Rita Battersby <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 3:20 PM Subject: Watson research > Hi! I'm also researching Watson - it's my mother's line, starting with > GILBERT & Hannah/Ann of Todmorden, Lancs./Yorks. (1765 - 1850 approx). Their > children = Sarah 1804; John & William (?twins?) 1808, JAMES 1811 (m. Mary > Chatburn, Eastwood, Yorks); Grace 1811; Gilbert 1815. James's children = > Gilbert 1833; Alice 1835; Ann 1838; LUKE 1840; Susan 1845; John 1848. Luke > m. (1) Elizabeth Stansfield (and poss 2nd time around 1890). Their children > = Maria 1869; Ellen 1867; Mary A. 1861 (?Annie? who m. Charlie Chinery and > went to Australia 1912); poss. Giles? and JOHN SAMUEL 1875 (my maternal > grandfather who m. Sarah Jane Brierley of Whitworth, Rochdale, Lancs.). > Still many of 'my' Watsons in the Castleton, Rochdale area and others around > UK. I'd love to hear from you if you think you may have a connection. Rita > Battersby nee Astley, Worsley, Manchester, Lancs. UK >