Topics

• About the Watkiss One-Name Study
• Variants
• Distribution of the name
• Data
• Contact Details

About the Watkiss One-Name Study

I started collecting material of my mother's surname nearly twenty years ago and registered it as a One Name Study in 1989. I have made many contacts worldwide and although I have been told it is Watkins I have traced my own line back to Broseley, Shropshire in the 1600's where Thomas Watkis, Church Warden, was a Ground Collier (he picked up the coal from the fields and put it in his wheelbarrow).

When I started my Watkiss research with a marriage in Newcastle upon Tyne I was told - ALL Watkiss' come from Shropshire - it took me four years to find this to be true.

Variants

WATKIS

Distribution of the name

Shropshire is the main county for Watkiss/Watkis which then spreads in the 1820's to Staffordshire & London.

Data

Birth references from the General Register Office 1837 - 2000

Marriage references from the General Register Office 1837 - 2000

Death references from the General Register Office 1837 - 2000

Parish Register entries in Shropshire, UK

Parish Register entries in London & Middlesex, UK

Burials Register in Shropshire and National Burial Index

Marriage Register in Shropshire

Census information for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 & 1901.

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mrs Sheila Jelley
E-mail:

This page last updated 9 April 2008.

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