Birth: 1804 Chatham, Kent, UK
Father: James Westbrook Wattson 1771-1848
Mother: Ann Ellis 1774-1836
Christening: 1 July 1804 Chatham, Kent, UK
Marriage: 9 January 1828 in Saint Giles, Camberwell, Surrey, UK
Wife: Fanny Wattson (Watson) 1803-1884
Death: September 1857 Rope Makers Fields, Limehouse, Middlesex, UK
Burial: 28 September 1857 Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Mile End, Middlesex, UK
James Wattson 1831-1895
Fanny Elizabeth Sarah Ann Wattson [Heavers, White, Wood] 1832-1889
John Willam Wattson 1835-1912
Matilda Jane Wattson [Gullefer] 1841-1929
Sarah Ann Wattson [Theobald] 1852-a1864
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980 and in England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for James Richard Watson on 1 July 1804 in Chatham, Kent, parents James and Ann Watson.
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 for James Wattson and Fanny 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 James Wattson and Fanny 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 his children he was a caulker living in Poplar in 1832 and 1835.
I cannot locate him in the 1841 census but he was not living with his wife and family in Cottage Row, Poplar, Middlesex.
In the 1851 census as James Watson (sic - on the original) aged 46, born in Chatham, Kent, a caulker, and living with his wife (Fanny), two sons (James and John) and three daughters (Fanny, Matilda and Sarah Ann) at 2 New Alley, Limehouse, Middlesex.
From the christening record of his two daughters he was a shipcaulker in 1852, but two addresses are given 3 Colt or Poet Street and 2 New Alley.
Death of James Richard Wattson in FreeBMD in July-September 1857 in Stepney (1c 393).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966 for James Richard Wattson buried on 28 September 1857 aged 53 in London. "Page 724 Burials in the year 1857 in the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery. Established under Stat. 4th Victoria, c. 63 James Richard Wattson of ? ? Fields Limehouse". I think this refers to an act of Parliament which allowed joint-stock companies to purchase land and set up large cemeteries outside the boundaries of the City of London, in this case at Mile End.
Entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for James Richard Watson born in Chatham, Kent, parents Jame Watson and Ann Ellis, his marriage to Fanny Watson on 9 January 1828 at Camberwell St Giles, his children and his death in London in September 1857, and two similar entries for James Richard Wattson.
James Richard Wattson was the father 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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