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From: "Don Watson" <>
Subject: Re: [WATSON] Does anyone own these?
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:23:23 -0600


It is a fascinating history, Don. That was back when Britainnia ruled the
waves! Mine is not that complicated. My father's family were Presbyterians
who crossed over to northern Ireland in the early 1600s. His mother's line,
the James Clan, is from merry old England. My mother's lineage on her
father's side is Dutch, from that portion which was ruled by Spain for a
time, and French, from the sub-province of Lalloeu, near Lille. The latter
fled from Wicres, Lalloeu, France to Heiden in The Netherlands, ending up in
Mannheim Pfalz in 1648. This is the only line that I have a ship for. My
"missing" ships are my brickwall.

More than anything, I'd LOVE to find the parents of John Decatur Watson,
born 1821 in Waterford, Loudoun County, Virginia. At some point (as a child)
he and his parents moved to Tennessee, "near the Cumberland Gap." When John
was still in his teens he joined his Uncle, Benjamin Franklin Watson, in
Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas. He shows up in the 1840 census
there, farming land next to Benjamin. I suspect his line goes RI, NY, MD,
VA, TN, AR, but I can't prove it.

Happy days "down under."

:-)
Don Watson
http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=5957-1&affiliate=19715
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