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I don't know if people are still looking at this thread. I have extensive knowledge of the Watt family, whom Millicent Ellen Fisher loyally served for very many years.  I have always felt there was some wider connection between her family and the Watt/Fowler family.  Phoebe Elizabeth Hough Fowler of Leek, Staffs, first married Fitzjames Watt, who died in 1847 when their 4 sons were aged between 9 and 5.  In the 1851 Census two boys are at school in Clifton, Glos, and Phoebe, widow, is lodging nearby. (Son Henry appears twice in that census).  Phoebe then married in 1852 to John Aitken Carlyle, brother to Thomas Carlyle.  But alas she died in 1854 in Chelsea after their child was stillborn.  The four boys were orphans, under the guardianship of John Aitken Carlyle.  In letters about the boys he mentions 'Miss Fisher' in Bristol.  The second and third sons, Henry Fowler Watt and Arthur Chorley Watt, married sisters from Scotland - Jane Wilson Hunter and Henrietta Vary Hunter, daughters of John Hunter, Auditor to the Court of Sessions in Edinburgh.  Arthur and Henrietta went to Bombay where many of their children were born, and where Millicent Ellen Fisher travelled with them.  In 1881 we find her at the family home, Horton Hall, in Leek. Alas, Arthur Chorley Watt, judge in Bombay, died in 1885 in a carriage accident in Bombay, and Henrietta died in France in 1890.  More orphans!  Thus we find the children in Wavertree, Liverpool, in the same road as the family of Arthur's brother Henry Fowler Watt - master mariner and ship owner. Among them is George Townshend Candy Watt, who was born some months after his father died. Millicent has become their guardian.  Little Henrietta died in 1892.  Mary Chorley Watt (note Quaker ancestor middle name) died in 1893.  Eleanor Vary Watt died in 1901. If anyone is further interested in this family, I have much more detailed information.