Hi Pinetree,
Yes Mary married John Tomlinson, a gamekeeper who sadly was killed by poachers in his thirties. My Grandmother, Frances Mary Tomlinson wrote (in the 1970s) the following about the Waterton connection, the Tomlinsons and the family pub in Great Houghton. You will see that she had heard that there was possibly some noble connection and that the Great Houghton pub was in the 1900's run by one of Mary Waterton's sons - Herbert Tomlinson.
Ref the other Charles Waterton see this website
http://www.jss.org.uk/cw/Charles_Waterton/family-tree.htm. Which does have some sibling data going back a couple of generations from Charles Waterton the explorer's line. So the question is can we find William in there?
From my grandmother's memoirs (which I paste unaltered although I think there are a few errors):
"To begin at the beginning of the Family Tree as far as I know it I should mention that my Great Grandfather, Charles Waterton was born in 1801 and died in 1879. My Grandfather's name was John Tomlinson - he worked at Wentworth, Yorkshire, where he was an Under Gamekeeper, then he moved to Hooton Pagnall and was Head Gamekeeper for Sir Richard Green. Unfortunately he was attacked by poachers, injured badly and died in Doncaster Infirmary. He is buried in Doncaster Cemetery, that is why he is not with his wife and my mother and father in the grave in Darfield Churchyard. My grandmother, Frances Mary Tomlinson (maiden name Waterton) moved to Great Houghton Old Hall after her husband's death and stayed with an Aunt (the Old Hall is now demolished and a new inn built in its place called by the same name). Subsequently she moved to a small Grocer's shop (still in existence as I write) in Pinfold Lane, Darfield. This shop has an Off-License. My grand-mother was born in 1841 and died in May 1898 the same year that I was born.
I went to Hooton Pagnall on my recent visit to Darfield and my cousin Basil showed me the house where my Aunt Blanche and my father were born. Hooton Pagnall is a very picturesque little village and the house, made of stone, is quite outstanding - a large dwelling with numerous dormer windows.
I have got the impression from one of my old Aunts that blue blood flowed through the veins of some ancestors, on my father's side, but how far back it is impossible to say! Of course, we might even find some skeletons in some of the old cupboards as well!!
Grandmother Tomlinson had five daughters, Frances, Annie, Miriam, Eliza and Blanche and two sons Herbert and Fred (my father). They all married except Eliza and Blanche. Blanche became a Head Mistress and her sister Eliza a teacher under her.
On occasions we went to Yorkshire to stay with my Father's brother, Uncle Herbert and his wife and family. Uncle Herbert was the Licensee of the Inn called The Old Hall, which I have already mentioned. It was a big, rather impressive building, or so it seemed to me as a child, and had a lot of passages and large rooms. There was a picture gallery and concert room with a stage at one end. This room was upstairs and we children used to like to play up there because there was a massive rocking horse and plenty of space to run around and play hide-&-seek. "
Regards to your other half, a distant cousin, noting that if a connection is made with the noble Waterton's of Walton Hall, a curtsy would not go amiss every now and again!
Possible we may have communicated on genes-reunited.
Thanks for your prompt response.
Soubois
