Fred WATKINS 1888 Ross Workhouse (General)

by nikkigreenway , Thursday, February 03, 2011, 22:25 (5046 days ago) @ slowhands

Thanks for that. Looks like his mother turned up as a niece living with Charles and Sarah in 1881, and Fred's shown as a Greenway (son) in 1891 and a Watkins (nephew) in 1901. Suggests that Elizabeth came to live with them, but ended up in the workhouse - a bit wayward perhaps! Looking at an Elizabeth Watkins born 1869 Cardiff (as suggested in the census), she may be the daughter of George Watkins and Abia Rudge, but George died in 1869 and Abia subsequently remarried a Nathan Keen in 1870. George did have a sister named Sarah born in Ganarew in 1837/8 - but since various years are suggested by censuses over her life who knows. If this is the same one then her parents are Thomas watkins and Martha.