From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> > Next, the 1841 census for Halifax (online at Ancestry and Findmypast) > shows an 11-year-old John Watson living with William Watson, aged 30, > shoemaker, and Ann, also 30, plus three other younger children at > Great Albion Street, Halifax. The 1841 census does not show > relationships but they can often be inferred and I think you can take > it that William and Ann were husband and wife and the children were > theirs. Also in 1841, the ages of all adults over 15 were rounded down > to the nearest lower multiple of five, so the ages of William and Ann > may not be entirely accurate.> I can further tell you that the parents of John Watson remained in Halifax, since in the 1861 census they were still in Great Albion Street where William, now 55, was a bootmaker. His wife Ann was 52 and they had 4 children between 22 and 10 still with them. So clearly they didn't emigrate with John. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE