Watkinson - a familiar Glemsford name

I really love getting emails like this that arrived from Australlia earlier this week, and am posting it in its entirety.
Thanks, Andrew.
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Hi,
I was just passing through the site as my Dad is visiting Glemsford around now while on holiday but I saw you had a growing list of things for the Watkinson line which we're part of.
Its a little sketchy if this helps, but what we know is:

Enoch Watkinson (mar) Mary Ann Betts - I think Enoch was also from a large family .
4 Children: Arthur, Heber, Flora or Florence & Eliza. I'm told Angel St was where they lived - but that's sketchy.

Arthur had children: Raymond, Auria, David & Martin; Heber died young-ish but without children; Flora is not known ( aside from that she worked as a lady in waiting for the viceroy of India, so unlikely had any children)
and Eliza married Cecil Claude Fenn.

Eliza & Cecil Claude had two children: Nina Mary & Jack (no middle name). They moved to Western Australia early 20th century, although Nina was born 1919 in the UK and was a toddler on the boat (Cecil had previously moved to Australia).

Nina has no children but married Leslie Alfred Hart
Jack married Violet Marjory Jones and had two children - Peter John & Leonie Anne


The interest comes from a line on the blog from Sue Yannakopoulos (http://glemsfordfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/search/label/Watkinson#5742260034904382251) who mentioned her grandmother Florence who went to India around 1919, it might always be a different Florence, but the Florence/Flora from our line went to India at that time. If its a connection, we are descended from Flora's sister Eliza - Flora is a big black hole in the info we have.

It might be nothing but we are interested in any info about the family line for the Watkinsons - Nina is the last living link we have to that family (shes 92) and Jack died a few years back. Peter John & Leonie Anne are 50/60's in age.

You can pass on our details if there is any interest, although we don't have that much info save a photo album and a 92 year old relative with a memory thats fading fast.

Kind Regards

Andrew Fenn
Kalamunda Shire
Western Australia.

So: if anyone has more to offer, please contact me at the usual address: admin@glemsford.org.uk
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Watkinson family

I have received this from Pat Watkinson:

"I have traced my husband's family back to possible1608 baptism but there are many queries and irregularities pre 19th century. The name is Watkinson and I wonder if anyone is researching this name. My line left Suffolk for Essex c1790 but I have 4 generations in Glemsford."

Pat Watkinson

If anyone can help Pat, contact can be made through me.
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Alfred Taylor and Caroline Watkinson, amongst others

Sue Yannakopoulos has approached me with this request.

Looking for information about my grandfather, Robert Taylor, born abt.1888 in Glemsford to Alfred and Caroline Taylor. I have the 1891 and 1901 census records and they state that Alfred Taylor was a cocoa mat maker and Robert was a yarn winder (hemp).

I do know that Robert enlisted in the army in 1903 and was probably underage, he joined the Suffolk regiment, marrying my grandmother, Florence Grace Saunderson in 1919 at Thetford and they sailed to India shortly afterwards.

I would love to hear from anyone related to Robert Taylor, he came from a family of 8 children. We have been searching for him for many many years and his daughter (now 83 years of age) didn't see her father again after the age of 12 as her parents divorced. I am hoping to put together a family tree for her.

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

I have been able to help Sue take the story back further into the nineteenth century, including a link into the Watkinson family of Glemsford, but the hunt ground to a halt with Alfred Taylor's father. His mother, Elizabeth, appears as a widow from 1851 onwards, and there is a suggestion that Alfred had a twin brother William, but, with my limited resources, I can't identify Elizabeth's marriage (she came from Belchamp) and therefore her maiden name, nor her husband's forename.

More importantly, I have no information about Robert other than his existence.

Incidentally, I normally impose a "Great War" rule on my searches, feeling that anything beyond that is rather too recent. I'd be interested to know what others think.

As always, if anyone can help Sue, please let me know.

Crick family

I would very much appreciate contact with anyone researching the Crick family from Glemsford (also links with Suttle & Watkinson families).

My g-g-grandfather was David Crick, the Manager of the mat making factory.

I'd also be interested to know if there are still Cricks living in Glemsford.

If anyone can help, please contact me on
lorrainefd@hotmail.com

Many thanks,
Lorraine