Birth: 10 August 1803 Woolwich, Kent, UK
Father: John Wattson c1779-1848
Mother: Fanny ? c1779-1854
Christening: 11 September 1803 St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, Kent, UK
Marriage: 9 January 1828 St Giles, Camberwell, Surrey, UK
Husband: James Richard Wattson 1804-1857
Death: July-September 1884 Rotherhithe Workhouse, Rotherhithe, Surrey, UK
James Wattson 1831-1895
Fanny Elizabeth Sarah Ann Wattson [Heavers, White, Wood] 1832-1889
John William Wattson 1835-1912
Matilda Jane Wattson [Gullefer] 1841-1929
Sarah Ann Wattson [Theobald] 1844-1921
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 for Fanny Watson baptised on 11 September 1803 at St Mary Magdalene, Woolwich, Greenwich, Kent, parents John and Fanny Watson. "September [...] Watson Fanny of John and Fanny Augst 10th 11".
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for Fanny Wattson and James Wattson on 9 January 1828 in Saint Giles, Camberwell, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for marriage of Fanny Wattson and James Wattson on 9 January 1828 at St Giles, Camberwell, Southwark. "Page 222 Marriages folemnized in the Parifh of Camberwell in the County of Surrey in the Year 1828 James Wattson of this Parifh Bachelor and Fanny Wattson of this Parifh Spinster were married in this church by banns with Confent of [blank] this ninth Day of January in the Year One thoufand eight hundred and twenty eight [...] No. 665"
From the baptism records of her children they living in Poplar in 1832 and 1835.
In the 1841 census as Fanny Watson (sic - on the original)aged 35 (rounded down to a multiple of five), born in Middlesex, and living with James, John and Richard (sons?), and Fanney and Matilda (daughters?) in Cottage Row, Poplar, Middlesex.
In the 1851 census as Fanny Watson (sic - on the original) aged 47, born in Woolwich, Kent, and living with her husband (James), two sons (James and John) and three daughters (Fanny, Matilda and Sarah Ann) at 2 New Alley, Limehouse, Middlesex.
From the christening record of her two daughters in 1852, they were living at 3 Colt or Poet Street and 2 New Alley.
Her husband died in Stepney and was buried on 28 September 1857 in the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Mile End.
I cannot locate her in the 1861 census.
Two entries in Ancestry London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1930 for Fanny Watson born in 1803, widow of James a caulker, living in Limehouse, employed in needlework, admitted at Stepney Union, Bromley, Tower Hamlets on 7 August 1868 discharged 7 September 1868.
In the 1871 census as Fanny Watson aged 69, born in Woolwich Kent, widowed, a needlewoman, and an inmate at St Olaves Union Workhouse, Rotherhithe, Surrey.
In the 1881 census as Fanny Watson aged 78, born in Woolwich, Kent, widowed, a dressmaker, and a pauper living in the Rotherhithe Workhouse, Rotherhithe, London.
Death of Fanny Wattson in FreeBMD in July-September 1884 aged 81 in St Olave (1d 219).
Two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Fanny Wattson born in Woolwich, Kent in 1803, her marriage to James Richard Wattson at Saint Giles, Camberwell, Surrey on 9 January 1828, five children, and her death in Southwark, London in 1884, and another for Fanny Watson adding her date of birth as 10 August 1803, parents John and Fanny Wattson.
Fanny Wattson was the mother of Fanny Elizabeth Sarah Ann Wattson, wife of Thomas Brown Heavers, father of John Thomas Heavers, husband of Clara Elizabeth Cowles, my grandaunt.
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