Hi Sharon, Donna & Jay, Thanks for replying. My Watsons never were in VA. They left England on the ship Belle Wood in 1865 and went directly to the Missouri Valley. They were in Nebraska City, NE 1865-68; Peru, NE 1869-71; Hamburg, Iowa 1871-76; Pattonsburg, MO 1876-83; Tacoma WA 1884 til their deaths in 1896 and 1906. A number of descendents still are in Tacoma, where William had the first flour mill in the city. He had flour and sawmills, agricultural implement business, in the NE and IA locations. In Cockerham, Lancs, England they had silk mills. Except for the Mark Watson previously mentioned, I can account for almost all descendents of William and Anne, down to the present day. There was a nephew from England, Benjamin Sykes, living with them in the 1880 census (can't put my finger on my extract at this moment), but did not migrate west with the family, perhaps returned to England........ Still hoping to make a connection (:)) Good hunting!! Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: S.Arbour <[email protected]> To: Jean C Gobel <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 27 October, 1999 11:41 AM Subject: RE: WATSONs of Texas 1800's > there are Watson's and Morris in Albermarle Co. Va and both families had > branches that went to Missouri along with Gibson, Chew, Maupin and others > from that area that were in Calvert Co. Maryland before that I decend from > some of those lines but we stayed in Va. lots of Johns, Williams, Joab, > James all those good ones. I will go back thru my lines to see if dates are > in the ball park I have a John Watson will from 1734 in Alb. Co. Va but am > stuck on 4 John Watsons living in Alb Co at that time I know they are at > least 2 maybe 4 seperate lines. sharon >