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Kenneth Richard
Watling
Wato's
Christmas Message |
| From Essex England |
| Family origins
Marlingford,Easton,Weston Longville,Lyng,Brinningham and Melton Constable.all
Norfolk. Interests 'cruising and boozing (i.e.sailing),motor caravanning,and
family history, ex Submariner and retired Depot Manager,British Rail,East Ham
Depot,London. |
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Roz Whatling |
| From London UK |
My parents moved
to London in 1952 from Suffolk. My Watlings/Whatlings originated from Horham,
Suffolk around 1650
My earliest Watling is Henry who married Dorothy
Battley (or Battlie) on 23/12/1651 in Wissett (Suffolk). He was a yeoman who
died in 1695. I am currently trying to find out about Ann Emmersonwho married
John Watling in Stradbroke on 29-10-1750. |
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Mervyn Watling |
| From Kent England |
Hi, my name is
Mervyn Watling, from Margate in Kent. I am a Music Teacher at a school in
Ramsgate, I am married to Joan and we have three wonderful grown-up daughters
(so the Watling name stops here!).
My Watling ancestors were from farming
stock in rural Suffolk, but my great-great-grandfather migrated to Shropshire
in the 1840s. His son moved to Wiltshire and became Clerk-of-Works on the
Fonthill Estate, where my Grandfather Fred Watling was born. He subsequently
moved to Margate, where my dad, Roy Watling, came into the world. He became a
gifted musician and moved from London to North Wales, then Camberley, Surrey,
before the family moved back to Margate in the 1970s. I've been here ever
since! The family is now growing, with two wonderful sons-in-law, plus grandson
Sam.
Apart from interest in Family History and the Internet, I am fully
involved in a local House Church and enjoy travel, being with my kids and
bird-watching with Joan. |
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Sadly
Linda passed over in April 2003
Linda's life
story |
| My
name is Linda and I`ve been a Watling for 37 years in September. John and I
have lived in Hullbridge, Hockley for 36 years. He originates from the
Walthamstow Watlings who stem from Henry Hamlet,born in Suffolk migrated to
London. |
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Howard George Watling |
| From Essex |
| I am Howard
George Watling, the son of Francis George Watling. I am married to Moira &
have one son Paul Ian James Watling. I was born in Clapton in East London &
lived in Walthamstow & grew up in Chingford, near Epping Forest. I live in
Burnham-on-Crouch, in Essex. I have worked in Insurance, Computing, Consultancy
& then started my own Coffee Shop & restaurant, which I shut in 2005
& now sell Coffee at Farmer's Markets & am also a qualified Masseur. I
used to play the Guitar, semi-professionally. I am involved with a local Church
& enjoy Growing Fruit & cooking. |
| I joined the
group as a result of Wato finding me, when Lynn Tinsley was trying to trace
me. |
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Julie Moores (nee Watling) |
| From |
| I was brought up
in New Eltham, south east London. My line of Watlings goes back to William
Watling (c1756-1838), a butcher who lived in Rockland St Andrew, Norfolk. I am
sure he must tie in with the other Norfolk/Suffolk Watlings but where?
William's son, Daniel Lock Watling settled in Lambeth; his son John Morgan
Watling, in the Bermondsey/Southwark area and my great-grandfather, Joseph
Charles Watling, in the Greenwich/Deptford area. |
| Visit Julie's
family history website |
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Doreen Nicholls (Nee
Whatling) |
| From from Woodbridge Suffolk |
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| Location
History: I was born at Melton, nr Woodbridge Suffolk |
| Family
History:. My father was Alfred Whatling born Campsea Ashe 1900. My mother
was Myrtle Gooch and they married 1937 in Woodbridge. His father was Harry
Augustine Whatling and his mother was Juliet Howlett. My father was one of 15
children. I have two sisters Margaret and Brenda. I lived in Woodbridge and
Ipswich until I got married in 1961 and I now live in Herefordshire. My hobbies
are card making in parchment, cross-stitch and puzzles. |
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Philip Watling |
| From Milton Keynes UK |
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I was born in
1971 and am the eldest son to Nigel and Rosemary who have both retired and live
comfortably. My grandpa was John and he was born in Rawlpindi, India - though
it became part of Pakistan just before he returned to England. The Indians
wouldn't let him leave for a while! One brother, Simon, lives in Jersey with
his wife, Claire, and three little Watlings: Jessica, Jamie and Sam John.
I married a wonderful lady from New York (don't hold it against her) on
21 January 2010 in China! Come summer 2010 Meg and I will settle down in
England where we will live the rest of our lives in peace and harmony. She will
continue her life as a teacher of English, and maybe the clarinet, of which she
studied classically at the New York High School of Music and the Performing
Arts - Fame! I will continue flogging (to death lol) my autobiography, Flight of a Lifetime, which is on sale and can be ordered
from Amazon or any UK/US bookshop. Of course you all know this so I'll shut
up
My family have our own tree tracing our line all the way back to the
original William c. 1440, but that line diverges from everyone else on this
group round about 1633. Prove me wrong! |
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Reginald Sole |
| Essex Area |
| Mr R. Sole is a
frequent contributor to the E groups, sometimes posting himself other times we
here about his antics through Wato. However sadly he has yet to make it to any
of the bi-annual get-togethers, |
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Joan Betts |
| From North Salt Lake, Utah USA |
| I am a descendant
of: Ham and Margaret Able Watling Simon and Martha Case Watling James and Dinah
Large Watling James Jr. and Louisa Trowse Watling Louisa Watling and Richard
Moses Jex (great grandparents) Richard and Louisa and their family immigrated
to Utah in 1892. |
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Lynn Tinsley |
| USA |
| My paternal
grandmother, Beryl Freda Watling, was born in Holborn, London and came to the
United States after WWI. Her older sister had emigrated first, with the rest of
the family following after my grandmother. My Watling's trace back to Thomas
Watlyng of Worlingworth, Suffolk in the 1540's. |
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