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From: "Les Strong" <>
Subject: Re: Watson
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:11:19 +0100


Skelsmergh Church is about 1.5 miles north of Kendal town centre
on the A6 to Penrith.

Les
-----Original Message-----
From: Robyn Crossle <>
To:
<>
Date: 26 September 1998 07:43
Subject: Watson

>Hello from NSW, Australia
>
>I have just joined this list and was wondering if anyone out
there knows
>of a place near Kendal, called Gilthwaitrigg. At least that is
>what it looks like but it is the writing from the 1851 census
and not the
>best. My g.g. grandfather, John Watson, was living there with
his wife,
>Eleanor, and children Richard, John, Frank and Charles Walter,
on a farm
>of 105 acres. It also says he was a Land Agent. The children
were 11, 5,
>3 and 1 in 1851 and John was 39 and Eleanor, 42.
>The place name at the top of the page is Skelsmergh, and it
seems that the
>farm close by Gilthwaitrigg (or whatever it is) was called
Ladyford.
>
>If any of this sounds familiar to anyone I would love to hear
from them.
>Other names of interest in Westmorland are Wilkinson and (I
think)
>Rowlandson.
>
>Charles Walter Watson was my great grandfather and he came to
Australia in
>the 1880s.
>
>Greetings from the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.
>
>Robyn Crossle
>
>Genealogy Before Housework
>
>
>

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