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Cornwall / Re: Laura or Nora PASCOE
« on: Tuesday 04 April 17 23:45 BST (UK) »
Richard: Thanks for the message. My step-father was Cecil Watters. He was the son of Ernest and Nora and was born in 1906 in Ashton. I looked at the censuses 1881 and 1891. The father Thomas named Waters on his 1876 marriage certificate) and his two sons, Burt and Ernest, were listed as Watters in 1881 but it changed to Waters in 1891. In the 1901 census, Thomas and Ernest were listed as Waters. Burt left for the US in 1900 and the ship manifest had him as a Watters. Ernest joined him a little later and called himself Walters. So it was a big mess-up. Maybe there were transcription errors. The Breage parishes have several generations of Ernest's ancestors as Waters, which I think is the correct name. By 1906, when my step father was born, both Burt and Ernest called themselves Watters.
My half-brother and sister still live in the Breage. area. They are the children of Cecil Watters. Not sure if you are in their generation or one later. You mentioned Nora as your great grandmother in one place and your grandmother in another. Who was your father and mother? Do you live in Cornwall? Again, thanks for your message, David (Pegg)
My half-brother and sister still live in the Breage. area. They are the children of Cecil Watters. Not sure if you are in their generation or one later. You mentioned Nora as your great grandmother in one place and your grandmother in another. Who was your father and mother? Do you live in Cornwall? Again, thanks for your message, David (Pegg)