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From: "Paul Featherstone" <>
Subject: RE: [FEATHERSTONE] Durham link to Kent
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:26:39 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20000906225003.17781.qmail@web511.mail.yahoo.com>


You could not say that Houghton le Spring was on the Durham/Yorkshire
border. In fact nearer the Durham/Northumberland border.

All employment in the Weardale area in the period you mention was mining, if
you look at the 1851 census 95% of the males over 14 were lead miners or had
mining related employment. I suspect that the area was so isolated from the
rest of the county ( it is rather a wild bleak area) that many families
intermarried several times over even Featherston to Featherston.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Delli-Pizzi [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:50
To:
Subject: RE: [FEATHERSTONE] Durham link to Kent


Hi

I have for some time now suspected a linkage between the
Featherstone and Watson families in yorkshire/durham. My
gggrandfather, James Walker Welsh was married twice. his
first wife was a Mary Featherstone. Two years after her
death, in 1883, James married a Sarah Watson. The marriage
was celebrated by a methodist minister named Featherstone
Watson. It is this connection with both names that lead me
to suspect that the Featherstone & Watson families were
connected sometime around the 1800-1850, and that Mary
Featherstone and Sarah Watson were related to eachother.
I don't know who Mary Featherstone's parents were, but
Sarah Watson's father was a Nicholas Watson, and her mother
Ann Parkin..both of the Durham/Yorkshire area. Nicholas
Watson was a lead miner, as was James and Sarah's son
William Welsh, my ggrandfather. James was born in Houghton
Le Spring, Sarah in Middleton. Both are on the
Durham/Yorkshire border. All Mary Featherstone and Sarah
Watson's children were born in Evenwood, Durham.
Your latest post re the resting of a dwelling by a Watson
and Featherstone strengthens the suspicion that the two
families were indeed connected. Does anyone else have any
information regarding this?

Thanks

Angela Delli-Pizzi (nee Welsh)
Sydney, Australia
--- Paul and Pam Featherstone <>
wrote: > So may be I'll find I have an ancestor up north
after
> all!
>
> Paul R
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Featherstone
> [mailto:]
> Sent: 06 September 2000 06:59
> To:
> Subject: [FEATHERSTONE] Durham link to Kent
>
> Following the message about the County Durham web site,
> having a quick look
> came up with this little snippnet,
> Ref No. D/Lu 21
> Extract from will of Mrs. Jane Featherstone devising farm
> of Low Lees or New
> Barns at Yalding and Brinchley, Kent, to her nephew Rich
> Luck and wife
> Catherine, 8 May 1807
> (1 paper)
>
> Paul
>
>
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