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LIFE GOES
ON: AN INTRODUCTION
MY
GRANDPARENTS - I - MY GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS - I - MY
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
THE SIXTEEN
FAMILIES
KNOTT - I - BOWLES - I - WATERS - I - HARRALL - I - PAGE - I - WISEMAN - I - CROSS - I - CARTER
CORNWELL - I - HUCKLE - I - MORTLOCK - I - MANSFIELD - I - REYNOLDS - I - CARTER - I - ANABLE - I - STEARN
CHRONOLOGY - I - DRAMATIS PERSONAE - I - WHERE PEOPLE CAME FROM - I - CALENDAR
MAP OF ELY - I - MAP OF MEDWAY
MAP OF
CAMBRIDGE AND DISTRICT
THE
WORKHOUSE
WORLD WAR I - I - WORLD WAR II
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LIFE GOES
ON
George Herbert Waters
born Halstow, Kent,
January 1849
died Wilmington, Kent, 19 May 1911
on the Knott family tree
part of the Waters family story
married to Mary
Ann Harrall
Father of Mary
Anne Waters
son of
Thomas Waters
and Mary Vokes
George Herbert Waters (1849-1911).
My Father's Father's Mother's Father. My
Great-Great-Grandfather.
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1851 census:
George was two years
old at the time of the 1851
census. The Waters family were
living at Lower Halstow,
Kent.
George's father
Thomas is shown as a labourer.
He was 50 years old. George's
mother Mary was 40.
George was the third
of three children. Thomas was 13
and Frances was 2.
George was born at Halstow,
Kent, as was his sister
Frances. His father Thomas was
born in Newington, Kent, as was
George's brother Thomas. His
mother was born in Borden, Kent.
The transcript for their entry is
here.
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1861
census:
George was twelve
years old at the time of the 1861
census. He is recorded as George
Herbert. The Waters family were
living at Lower Halstow,
Kent.
George's father
Thomas is shown as an agricultural
labourer aged 61. His
mother Mary was 50.
George was the only
child living at home.
George was born at Halstow,
Kent. His father Thomas
was born in Newington Kent. His
mother was born in Borden, Kent.
The transcript for their entry is
here.
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1871
census:
I have not
been able to find George
on the 1871 census. On
October 15th, less than
six months after the
census, he would marry
Mary Ann Harrall in
Newington, Kent. Here is their
marriage certificate. One
year later, his eldest
daughter Mary Anne, my
great-grandmother, would
be born in Llanferres in
Denbighshire, as would
her sister the following
year. By 1881, George is
back in Kent, so where is
he in April 1871?
His parents,
Thomas and Mary, were
living in Church
Lane, Newington, Kent.
This is the parish where
George would be married.
Thomas was 75 and his
wife Mary was 63. The
transcript for their
entry is here. Living
next door was Kate
Waters, possibly Thomas's
younger sister. George's
older brother Thomas Jr
was also living in
Newington, with his wife
Jane and 1 year old
daughter Emma.
There are a
couple of possibilities
for George, the strongest
of which is a 21 year old
George Waters living at
the Queen Anne
Inn, Maidstone, Kent.
His birthplace is
recorded as Northfleet,
Kent, but this may be an
enumerators' error,
because he has simply
used ditto marks to the
entry above. He is shown
as a labourer,
and then bracketed with a
number of others as Privates,
West Kent Militia
training. However,
by October George would
describe himself as an
engineer, and in 1872 as
an engine driver.
Curiously,
there is a James H Waters
aged 21 and living in The
Street, Little Halstow,
Kent, where
George was in 1861 and
1871. He is the right
age. However, he is a
lodger in the Holloway
household, as is his
younger sister Emily, and
so I think this must be a
cousin of George.
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1871: George Waters married Mary
Ann Harrall at St Mary's church,
Newington, Kent on the 15th
October. He gave his occupation as
engineer. The fathers of the couple,
Thomas Waters and John Harrell, were both
described as labourers. The witnesses
were R Croucher and Emily Elliott. George
marked the register with a cross - that
is to say, he was illiterate. Nobody else
signed the register, which was filled in
entirely by the minister. Here is their marriage
certificate.
1872: George's first
child, my great-grandmother Mary
Anne Waters was born on the 11th
of August at Tyn y Cornel,
Llanferres, Ruthin, Denbighshire. Tyn
y Cornel means 'House at the Corner'. Her
father's name is given as George Waters,
and her mother's as Mary Ann Waters,
formerly Harrall. Her mother was the
informant, and her address shows that she
was born at home. Her father's occupation
is given as engine driver,
which may explain what the family was
doing so far from home in Kent. The
second child, Beatrice, would also be
born in north Wales. Mary Anne's mother
signed the register with a cross - that
is, she was also illiterate, and could
not write her own name. The birth was
registered on the 25th of September 1872.
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1881 census:
George
was thirty-two years old at the time of
the 1881 census. The Waters family were
living at 23 Upper Brents,
Preston-next-Faversham, Kent.
The road still exists, and is today part
of Faversham town centre.
George
is shown as a brickfield engine
driver. His wife Mary Ann was
also 32.
George
had two children. Mary Ann (sic) was 8
and Beatrice was 7.
George
was born at Halstow, Kent.
His wife Mary Ann was also born in Kent,
at Higham. Mary Anne and Beatrice are
shown as being born in North Wales. The
transcript for their entry is here.
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