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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Joseph Watson - b1883 Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England
« on: Sunday 17 August 14 20:55 BST (UK) »
I reiterate that. Thank you so much Carolyn, and everyone.
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Joseph Ralph WATSON
« on: Saturday 16 August 14 00:45 BST (UK) »
Hi bendywendy,
Can't believe it! Thank you so much to you and your team of wizards. It's like being in the same room with my ancestors. Slightly unnerving when all I had to go on before were those battered and faded exhibits. Thank you again beyond words you and everyone who worked on them.
Westwood21
Can't believe it! Thank you so much to you and your team of wizards. It's like being in the same room with my ancestors. Slightly unnerving when all I had to go on before were those battered and faded exhibits. Thank you again beyond words you and everyone who worked on them.
Westwood21
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Joseph Watson - b1883 Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England (3)
« on: Saturday 16 August 14 00:35 BST (UK) »
My goodness - an unbelievable job. I thought this pic was irredeemable. Wow! Thank you. I wasn't even able to upload the pics without the invaluable help of bendywendy.... What stars you all are.
Westwood21
Westwood21
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Joseph Watson - b1883 Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England (2)
« on: Saturday 16 August 14 00:32 BST (UK) »
Just brilliant. You are magicians, all of you. Thank you so very, very much.
Westwood21
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Joseph Watson - b1883 Kirk Ella, Yorkshire, England
« on: Saturday 16 August 14 00:30 BST (UK) »
Can't tell you how grateful I am to you all. Quite amazing what you have done. A very big thank you.
Westwood21
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Joseph Ralph WATSON
« on: Tuesday 12 August 14 16:27 BST (UK) »
Just to say that I have been unable to post the photographs of Joseph Watson and his Beverley family, plus the copy of his marriage certificate to Ellis Boyes, because my internet skills to render them down to under 500KB have proved lacking, despite many attempts. They are in .pdf form and if anyone was interested enough to see them (and skilled enough to put them on to this forum) I am happy to send them to someone's email address as attachments to open. They are not in the best nick, being over one hundred years old, but very interesting, I think.
Westfield21
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Joseph Ralph WATSON
« on: Sunday 10 August 14 12:10 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much for trying, bendywendy. So grateful. I expect we'll get to the bottom of this mystery in the end... We now need one of Janet's relatives to alight upon the forum, just like I popped out of the woodwork at the eleventh hour!
Westwood
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Joseph Ralph WATSON
« on: Sunday 10 August 14 11:01 BST (UK) »
Hi bendywendy,
I'm afraid I don't think that's our man either. Our Ralph/Joseph was born in 1883. On his marriage certificate to Ellis Boyes in 1904, he is aged 21 (she 22). I'll try to upload it to the forum later today.
Thanks for searching. I have a funny hunch that he may have died in England. I have no reason for saying that other than Heywood's finding on the electoral roll of a Ralph Beverley Watson living in Battersea, London, in 1930 - possibly married to Janet. I think this possibility needs disproving if at all possible anyway.
Westwood
I'm afraid I don't think that's our man either. Our Ralph/Joseph was born in 1883. On his marriage certificate to Ellis Boyes in 1904, he is aged 21 (she 22). I'll try to upload it to the forum later today.
Thanks for searching. I have a funny hunch that he may have died in England. I have no reason for saying that other than Heywood's finding on the electoral roll of a Ralph Beverley Watson living in Battersea, London, in 1930 - possibly married to Janet. I think this possibility needs disproving if at all possible anyway.
Westwood
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Joseph Ralph WATSON
« on: Saturday 09 August 14 11:54 BST (UK) »
Hi Scotiagirl,
Thanks for explaining what you know so clearly. The suggestion, I guess, is that Phyllis was born out of wedlock. We have no proof, as yet, that Ralph/Joseph died around 1920 which is partly why I am so interested in Heywood's findings on the London electoral roll putting a Ralph Beverley Watson in Wandsworth (SW London) in 1923 and 1924 and closeby in Battersea (8 Gambetta Street) in 1930, possibly with a wife, Janet Watson. If only we could prove that this is our chap, then his death must have been mythical.
And if he died in 1957, where? The million dollar question?
We're not finished yet!
Hi William,
Just to say that Ellis married Henry Samman in 1914 so your search in the National Archives showing her divorce from Joseph/Ralph in 1913 would seem to be correct.
Westwood21
My goodness, bendywendy, this man loves sailing..... I haven't yet obtained Beulah's book of Joseph's war letters so I am just guessing that he was returning to Canada after the war, but it didn't work out with Beulah, as Scotiagirl reports, because of his continued drinking. I want to say in his defence that he had been through both the Boer and First World Wars and dreadful trauma. Harry (Henry) Samman also took to the bottle having been awarded an MC in WW1 and been horribly shot up, losing an eye.
Westwood
Thanks for explaining what you know so clearly. The suggestion, I guess, is that Phyllis was born out of wedlock. We have no proof, as yet, that Ralph/Joseph died around 1920 which is partly why I am so interested in Heywood's findings on the London electoral roll putting a Ralph Beverley Watson in Wandsworth (SW London) in 1923 and 1924 and closeby in Battersea (8 Gambetta Street) in 1930, possibly with a wife, Janet Watson. If only we could prove that this is our chap, then his death must have been mythical.
And if he died in 1957, where? The million dollar question?
We're not finished yet!
Hi William,
Just to say that Ellis married Henry Samman in 1914 so your search in the National Archives showing her divorce from Joseph/Ralph in 1913 would seem to be correct.
Westwood21
My goodness, bendywendy, this man loves sailing..... I haven't yet obtained Beulah's book of Joseph's war letters so I am just guessing that he was returning to Canada after the war, but it didn't work out with Beulah, as Scotiagirl reports, because of his continued drinking. I want to say in his defence that he had been through both the Boer and First World Wars and dreadful trauma. Harry (Henry) Samman also took to the bottle having been awarded an MC in WW1 and been horribly shot up, losing an eye.
Westwood