Guild of One-Name Studies
One-name studies, Genealogy
Study: Watkiss **** available for adoption ****
Variants: Watkis
Category: 3 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way on a global basis.
Contact: Mrs Sheila Jelley
I started collecting material of my mother's surname in 1986 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.
All Watkiss' comes from Shropshire I was told in the late 1980's by my first connection from the Genealogicl Research Directory which was a publication where ones surname interests were published annually.
This has proved to be correct and they are established there in the 16th century.
Birth references from the General Register Office 1837 - 2005
Marriage references from the General Register Office 1837 - 2005
Death references from the General Register Office 1837 - 2006
Parish Register entries in Shropshire, UK
Parish Register entries in London & Middlesex, UK
Burials Register in Shropshire and National Burial Index 3rd edition
Marriage Register in Shropshire
Census information for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911 and the 1939 Register