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From: Mike and Dot Doherty <>
Subject: [Lon] Re: Shoreditch 1880 - 1900
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 11:38:51 -0500



I apologize for sending this response through the London and Middlesex Co.
Lists but my answer to the enquirer has bounced back to me three time. I
am hoping that he is a member of one or both lists so that he will receive
this response.


To: Michael Watson () -

Thank you for your enquiry about the WATSON surname in Shoretditch (1800 -
1900)

I am afraid that I have some bad news that I must share with you. I spent
some time researching the WATSON surname in my own family background before
I obtained a marriage certificate for my grandfather's brother. When the
certificate arrived at my home, I was shocked beyond belief to find out
that the bride's surname was NOT "WATSON" but instead the bride's surname
was listed as BATSON. Other further research findings also verify this
BATSON surname in my background. I have since then asked that the WATSON
surname be removed from the London and Middlesex Surname lists as a
specific interest for me.

Strangely enough, many of the places that you list in your e-mail message
are the very same districts where my grandfather's brother JOHN WILLIAM
TAVERNER and his wife HENRIETTA HARRIET (BATSON) TAVERNER lived also in the
1880's and 1890's
- namely Hoxton, Hackney and Shoreditch. HENRIETTA HARRIET BATSON was born
in Kingsland around 1864. My gr.grandfather JOHN GERNON TAVERNER died in
Tottenham in 1899 and he was buried in nearby St. Patrick's R.C. Cemetery.

Good luck on your research for the WATSON name in Hoxton, Kingsland,
Shoreditch, Hackney and Tottenham. Thank you for the batch numbers for
those districts - they may very well come in handy when I check them for
BATSON information! Perhaps someone else on the London or Middlesex Lists
will recognize your particular interest in the WATSON surname......

Best Wishes -
"Dot Doherty" <>
Bowling Green, Ohio
USA
(Retired Librarian)

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Researching the following surnames in MIDDLESEX COUNTY (ENGLAND):
BATSON
COLLISON
GERNON / GURNON
HENNESSEY
MARTIN
MULLINS
PALMER
SHERRIN - SHERRAN -SHERRIN (or variant spelling)
TAVERNER
WALTER

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> Hello Dot My name is Michael Watson and I live in Eastbourne Sussex
>on the south coast of England. I am working on my family tree and my
>ancestors who were very numerous were settled in Hackney for a long
>time from before 1740 and I am sure there are many still around Hackney
>now. It is possible there is a connection due to the period of
>settlement as well as the family numbers. Most of the christenings of my
>earliest known ancestors took place at St John, Hackney and marriages
>appear in the records of St Leonards, Shoreditch. If you search the IGI
>for the British Isles under England and Greater London then key in the
>batch number C042152 all the family christenings some 56 from 1742 - 1812
>will be shown. William - 8 November 1747 is my ancestor as are his son
>William - 25 December 1775, Richard - 15 November 1812 who had a son
>Thomas that bore my great grandfather David in 1872 and he was born in
>Tottenham which is now part of Haringey. Marriages are under the batch
>number M040371. As time went by the numbers increased considerably, at
>the same time they dispersed to adjoining hamlets as they were then and
>David above married and moved on to Dartford in Kent where my father was
>born along with his siblings of which two are still living as is my own
>father who is now 84 years of age . A lot of the villages and hamlets such
>as Hoxton,Kingsland,Shoreditch, Clapton,Stoke Newington and Tottenham
>were once part of Hackney parish. If you find a link to any of the
>descendants of those mentioned in the IGI then I would be pleased to know
>that if you could pass that on to me . With thanks M Watson



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