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1783
Completed Northamptonshire Lookup Requests / Re: another Watson mystery: who is Mary Ann Page?
« on: Saturday 02 April 11 22:26 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for this info!

Now to track down Elizabeth's parentage!

1784
Completed Northamptonshire Lookup Requests / Re: another Watson mystery: who is Mary Ann Page?
« on: Saturday 02 April 11 20:54 BST (UK)  »
i only "found" her last night, and have taken the marriage details from freeBMD.
I think i will have to put this certificate on the "to-buy" list

Unless either Thomas or Joseph were indulging in extra-marital affairs, I am at a loss to think who's child she could be. None of the children from Joseph's second marriage were old enough to have fathered any. It is possible that there were some as yet untraced children from Joseph's first marriage - or even of Thomas's -  that could be her parent.

Her birthplace on the censuses is Weedon

1785
Completed Northamptonshire Lookup Requests / another Watson mystery: who is Mary Ann Page? COMPLETED thanks!
« on: Saturday 02 April 11 18:57 BST (UK)  »
 The elderly Thomas Watson and his wife Mary of Nether Heyford seem to have brought up a child that I cannot fit into the family

In 1841 she is Mary Page age 2 Thomas is 55 and his wife 65
In 1851 she is Mary Ann Page age 10 Thomas is 64 and his wife 74. Mary Ann is described as "neice"
When she married in 1858 she used the name Mary Ann Watson Page
In 1861 she a "visitor" in the Watson household with her baby son.
In later censuses she is living in Weedon with husband & children

Thomas had 2 brothers and a sister (that i have traced). I have not traced any children of Thomas & Mary. One brother died aged 17 in 1795, the sister died unmarried age 22 in 1811. The other brother, my Joseph (subject of my two previous posts) was bringing up his own family of children including another Mary Ann in Heyford and Weedon at this time.

So who was Mary Ann Page and why was she being brought up by the childless Thomas & Mary rather than Joseph & Ann who had other children about the same age and would seem the more logical choice?

1786
Northamptonshire / MIs Heyford
« on: Saturday 02 April 11 17:45 BST (UK)  »
i have found a possible burial for the first wife of my Joseph Watson (see my other post)

FreeReg has:  Nether Hayford
Mary Watson age 37 bur 17 Oct 1821

as nothing else is in the entry, i presume the parish register didnt say any more

Are there any Mi's for Nether Heyford in case the gravestone goives more clues to her family?

If this is Joseph's first wife, he certainly didnt waste much time in replacing her - he married again on 1st Jan 1822!

1787
Northamptonshire / Joseph Watson's first wife Heyford early 1800's
« on: Friday 01 April 11 18:37 BST (UK)  »
I have just received a copy of the parish register entry for the marriage of Joseph Watson & Ann Whiting in Olney Bucks 1 st Jan 1822

To my surprise, Joseph is described as a widower.

Can anyone help with tracing his first marriage and the death of his wife - and any children of the marriage?

He was bpt at Whilton in 1784, at the time of his 1822 marriage he is "of Heyford Wharf" and a Coal Merchant, tho he later becomes an Innkeeper & farmer in Weedon Bec.

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