Who was Mrs Elizabeth Graham.

[mckha489]

Will of Thomas Creswick Watson is on Ancestry and he  was of Sheffield and then Wrexham, then London.
So, if that is Rebecca with Elizabeth in 1851 she is W which looks very like Elizabeth’s status.


(Matches your last)

[wilcoxon]

We know Rebecca was a widow, and the three younger ladies were unmarried.

[wilcoxon]

Mary Cecilia Watson  died in Wrexham and was buried on 16 April  1852.  She was the daughter of Rebecca`s son George who was in Australia. 
Rebecca Watson died in Wrexham in April 1854. Her death was announced in the  Wrexham  Advertiser 15th April 1854
On the 9th, at King-street, Wrexham, Rebecca Watson, aged 89 years, widow of Thomas Creswick Watson, Captain and Adjutant in the Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

[ShaunJ]

Paging backwards and forwards in that 1851 census piece, the enumerator normally enters "wid" for widows, "mar" for married.

[arthurk]

But on this page he/she does seem to have used just 'W' for widows. We know now that Rebecca was a widow, and the letter is the same as the start of her surname.

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Mary Cecilia Watson  died in Wrexham and was buried on 16 April  1852.  She was the daughter of Rebecca`s son George who was in Australia. 
Rebecca Watson died in Wrexham in April 1854. Her death was announced in the  Wrexham  Advertiser 15th April 1854
On the 9th, at King-street, Wrexham, Rebecca Watson, aged 89 years, widow of Thomas Creswick Watson, Captain and Adjutant in the Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

Just to add to the Mary Cecilia option - baptism demonstrates link to pob on 1851

Mary Cecilia Cobham Watson
Baptism:    25 Jan 1826, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Father:    George Watson
Mother:    Anne Percival Watson

[mckha489]

Trying to get at this laterally here are more Ellisons who are obviously connected.   

1806. Joseph Hunter RANDLES licence to marry Harriet ELLISON.  Bondsman Samuel LAFONE
Witnesses at the marriage were Delia ELLISON and Samuel LAFONE
1813 Samuel LAFONE married Sarah HURRY, witness Joseph Hunter RANDLES
Joseph Hunter RANDLES died 1832 and there is a will.

Modified. There is a good tree on Ancestry, (with fabulous LAFONE photographs and portraits .) and also a lot of Ellisons, including these I have just mentioned.  But they have no Rebecca Ellison.  There IS a Sheffield baptism for her which fits the one who married Thomas C Watson (marriage says Thomas Watson Creswick that is also how he signs).

There are no GRAHAM s of the right vintage in that tree.



Harriet died 1860

[Mabel Bagshawe]

1841 - Walton on the Hill

Harriet Randles    50
Cerdelia Ellisen    50 (as indexed on Ancestry)
Thos Williams    45 - porter
Sarah Williams    45 - servant

[mckha489]

I apologise if people think I’m leaping about, but what about....

In 1818 Stuart James GRAHAM (MERCHANT of LIverpool, so in the right social circles) died age 33.
Being a bachelor and “having no father or mother” His admon was granted to his natural and lawful brother Charles Burrough GRAHAM
Charles Burrough GRAHAM married 16 Jun 1814 to Elizabeth CHARLETON  at Brampton, Cumberland.

And he died sept 1828 16 September 1828 - Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whiteha

I seem to remember there were Graham’s drapers in Wrexham??