Children of Stephen and Sarah WATTS

[Les de B]

I have the details of 12 children for Stephen and Sarah (nee NUGENT) WATTS who were married at St.Helier, Jersey, 17 Nov 1788. On Sarah's Memorial Plaque in Deal, Kent, it is indicated "of fourteen children, eight survived by whom this tablet has been erected". I'm trying to locate the missing two?

The following are those I'm aware of;

1) Ann WATTS bpt 15/11/1790, Jersey.

2) Jane WATTS bpt 24/1/1792, Jersey.

3) James WATTS no bpt date but buried 25/8/1793

4) John James WATTS bpt 6/10/1794, Jersey.

5) Maria Margaret WATTS bpt 13/8/1796, Jersey.

6) Gordon WATTS bpt 4/1/1798, Jersey.

7) Stephen Ross WATTS bpt 30/11/1799, Jersey.

8 ) Charlotte Harriet WATTS bpt 1/11/1801, Jersey.

9) Marianne (Mary Anne) Nugent WATTS bpt 12/3/1804, Jersey.

10) Robert Nugent WATTS bpt 2/2/1806, Jersey.

11) Susanna Eliza WATTS bpt 6/10/1807, Jersey.

12) Charles William WATTS bpt 24/7/1809, South Hampton.

Their father, Stephen WATTS, was a Captain of an Invald Company on Jersey. The 1806 Military Census indicates the children as 4 boys and 5 girls. This is consistant with my records for the first 10 children, with 1 dying 1793.

Some time after 1807 they moved to South Hampton, then to Deal, Kent.  The 1809 baptism would be the last as the father Stephen WATTS d.1810.

Around 1807 to 1810 there were 4 bpt's in Deal for children of Stephen and Sarah WATTS, however, these has been confirmed they are not the same Stephen and Sarah WATTS.

I'm only presuming the 2 missing children were born in Jersey, and died young?

Thanks

Les

[AMF]

St Saviour Jersey have details of the burials of
8.3.1803 Susanne, daughter of Stephen and Sarah Nugent
17.3.1803 Eliza daughter of Stephen and Sarah Nugent

the dates tie in with the others children and also with the later daughter named Susanna Eliza. Looks like twins who died shortly after birth.
AMF

[Les de B]

Thanks very much for that information AMF - I would say they are the two "missing" children.

Les