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watson family in essex?
« on: Friday 05 December 14 10:59 GMT (UK) »
Lieutenant George Watson of the 3rd Light Dragoons, born 1785, claimed his father Captain Thomas Creswick Watson (born 1770) came from 'an old Essex country family'. I can't find any Watsons which fit the bill, does anyone else know better?
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Re: watson family in essex?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 05 December 14 12:37 GMT (UK) »
THere is a Will for Thomas Cresswick Watson Esquire
5 May 1831

You should be able to see it if you have access to Ancestry - (free at many local libraries) or I would imagine it is on the National Archives site and can be downloaded for a small fee (I havent looked)
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: watson family in essex?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 05 December 14 12:40 GMT (UK) »
A quick look at reveals he had a wife Rebecca and a son George.
NO mention of Essex - he seems to be from Sheffield, Wrexham and lately of MArylebone.
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: watson family in essex?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 05 December 14 13:03 GMT (UK) »
Yes, I saw the will and his wife is Rebekah Hanson, born in Birmingham. Can't find anything else except the will though and no other relatives. Thank you for your thoughts.
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Re: watson family in essex?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 05 December 14 13:08 GMT (UK) »
Thomas Creswick son of Paul WATSON, scrivener, was baptised in Sheffield on 20 June 1770.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: watson family in essex?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 05 December 14 13:22 GMT (UK) »
It looks as though Paul Watson of Rotherham and Susanna Creswick/Cresswick of Sheffield married by licence at Rotherham on 6 Feb 1768:

www.mocavo.com/Yorkshire-Marriage-Registers-West-Riding-Volume-I/534814/236
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: watson family in essex?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 05 December 14 13:50 GMT (UK) »
Thank you so much! That's amazing! And an interesting rise in the social scale for Thomas, if his father was a scrivener ...
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Re: watson family in essex?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 05 December 14 13:54 GMT (UK) »
Was George definitely born in 1785 - only 15 years after his father's baptism?
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: watson family in essex?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 05 December 14 13:56 GMT (UK) »
Duh!
No, slip of the finger -- 1795.
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