Looking for a marriage for Mary Ann Watkins (General)

by carolbrownmoore, Sunday, May 25, 2008, 06:11 (6097 days ago) @ pullin

Hi Brenda,

This is really exciting stuff, I didn't know Henry had any sisters. Rosetta makes a lot of sense as Alice Rosina was the eldest girl (my Alice). She was raised (I have no idea why) by her grandparents (George and Eliza Price) and appears on the 1871 census as living with them aged 10. I remember my great aunt Lily (Alice's daughter born in Castleford)telling me that Eliza would discipline her by hitting her head while wearing a metal thimble and Lily could recall Alice's head being covered with lumps and cysts.

Alice and Reuben Malson had the following children:
Alice Rosena b1883
Emily b1884
Edith b1886
Levi b1888 (infant death)
Lily b 1889 (infant death)
Reuben b1890 (infant death)
Lily b1891 (my great Aunt) who live just short of the 102nd birthday
Charlie b1893
SamuelAugustus b1893 (infant death)
Dorothy b1897
Reuben b1899
Beatrice b1900
William b1901
Ephraim b1905 (my grandfather)

Do you have any information on Henry's siblings, especially Rosetta as this name (or similar ones)crops up all the time in the family.

I will try and put the photo of Alice, Mary Ann and the Spanish girl on the FH website.