hello again everyone
On this matter...........I have come across a challenge again.
I have found several Christophers born to the family of Charles Watson born 1745 and Elizabeth Melan. They were married in 1765 in HOlborn and their son Charles, born 1770 is my line. However, there is a Christopher born in 1776 and then later on in 1784 and again in 1786. The places they have lived are Union Court and then Saffron Hill and then two children in Castle Street/yard and these two later Christophers are in Union Court again and then I found a Sarah in 1790 in Fetter Lane.
Fetter Lane is where my Charles had his family so it is a possibility that he could have lived in his fathers house when he married??
I cannot find the Christophers as dying at all?
I then found a Charles Watson born to a Christopher and Elizabeth Watson in 1744, but in Christchurch, Surrey, Southwark. I thought that maybe this was him as the name Christopher is clearly important (forgot to mention my Charles called his first child George Christopher Watson in 1808), but then I saw that Christchurch Southward is on the other side of the Thames and my reading on the Lightermen suggests that people were constantly crossing the Thames by using these Watermen etc but would that have drawn him to live there and then work as a Lighterman. (cant find his records at all, only my charles, the son!)
So I am thinking that as most of the Lightermen lived in the Middlesex area it seems, the most likely candidate for my Charles and Elizabeth is the one born in Holborn in 1745, but I would be interested in your thoughts please.
Hope this is clear because my head is totally mixed up at the minute with Charles and Christophers!!
