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There are several trees on Ancestry with your Haydn and his family on ,some even have photographs .

Perhaps you should take out a 2 week free subsciption to Ancestry and contact the tree owners

Marriage info of possible relative sent by PM......check your message box.

You could then try asking for an ER lookup on one of the threads which offer the facility.

There are at least two on Records Office board

Start with 'search trees'

Or friendsreunited

Buy Peter's death cert for name and address of informant, who may well be a relative

Try the BT phone book.......all directories are the reference section of your nearest main Public Library

Whats the best way of trying to find relatives?

Wow! Thank you so much this has already opened so many doors I wouldn't have thought of looking in the north. and it looks like I may even have some cousins out there if Peter had children.
I can't wait to go research some more. Once again many thanks.
If anyone should find anything alse on Haydn or his family I would be grateful.
Wendy

Address on enlisting: 27 Benbow Rd Hammersmith. Occupation, clerk.

Height 5ft 5 3/4 ins Chest 34 1/2 ins fully expanded. Weight 123 lb.

Scar right buttock. Bald patch left side of head. Something illegible on right side of back.

Had old fracture left thigh.

Joined at Lichfield 8th July 1915 as Private.

Home: 7/7/15 - 7/7/17.

BEF 8/7/17 - 20/9/17

Name: Peter H N Watson
Spouse Surname: Goddard, Winifred
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1942
Registration district: Southport
Registration county (inferred): Lancashire
Volume Number: 8b
Page Number: 1735


Looks like a couple of sons and a daughter from Peter's marriage.

And Sadly - Peter

Name: Peter Haydn N Watson
Birth Date: 16 Jan 1918
Death Registration Month/Year: Jul 1999
Age at death (estimated): 81
Registration district: Sefton North
Inferred County: Merseyside
Register number: 56B
District and Subdistrict: 0341B
Entry number: 192

??? Possible death for Cynthia?

Name: Cynthia Poppy I Sharp
Birth Date: 5 May 1912
Death Registration Month/Year: Feb 1997
Age at death (estimated): 84
Registration district: Sefton North
Inferred County: Merseyside
Register number: 49B
District and Subdistrict: 0341B
Entry number: 138

Name: WATSON, HAYDN AMBROSE
Initials: H A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: North Staffordshire Regiment
Unit Text: 8th Bn.
Age: 39
Date of Death: 20/09/1917
Service No: 50333
Additional information: Son of William Watson, of 5, Queensdale Rd., Norland Square, Notting Hill, London; husband of Violet Watson.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 124 to 125 and 162 to 162A.

Thank you for all your help. Is there any other info on his military records of interest I haven't yet been able to afford to get them and we know so little about him and his line. It would be wonderful to find out more about my mothers uncle she never knew existed until I started on this adventure
It had also crossed my mind violet had remarried as I have been unable to find anything on, her or their children and my research is limited.
Does it state in his records were Haydn is buried or name on memorial?
again many thanks

This has to be Violet's death so it looks as though she married again although I can't locate the actual event but she may have married more than once more.

Violet Elphinstone Bayly
Birth Date: 14 Dec 1884
Death Registration Month/Year: 1971
Registration district: Southport
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 10f
Page: 1701

They only have Violet in the 1911 and state that there has only been one birth and as I said previously on his military record there are only 3 children listed to the marriage being Ruth Violet, Cynthia Poppy and Peter Haydn Newton

I'm not 100% but think there was 6 Gertude 1906 constantine M.1908, Emma 1909, Cyril 1910, Cynthis P. 1913 and Peter who was born in the Jan after Haydn was killed in france. I think all the children were born in hammersmith.
Haydn was bornin 1877 and Violet was born1885.

I can't find 6 births for them. They have Violet born 1908, Peter above born 1918 and Cynthia born 1912.
Is this the correct family and do you know the names of the other children and where they were born?
EDIT: Just checked his military record and there are only 3 children listed ending with Peter in 1918.

1911 Married 4 years. 1 child born and 1 living

WATSON, Haydn Head Married M 31 1880 Salesman Magic Lantern Slides London Paddington VIEW
WATSON, Violet Wife Married
4 years F 25 1886 London Dulwich VIEW
WATSON, Violet Daughter F 3 1908 London Hanwell VIEW

Address:
25a St Stephens Avenue W County:
London

Marriage

Marriages Dec 1906 (>99%)
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Audain Violet Elphinstone Brentford 3a 213
BROWN Edith Agnes M Brentford 3a 213
Chandler Alfred William Brentford 3a 213
Watson Haydn Ambrose Brentford 3a 213

Is this the last of their children born after he died?

Births Mar 1918 (99%)
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Watson Peter M N Audain Hammersmith 1a 284

I'm trying to find out what happened to haydns wife (Violet E.Audain) and 6 children after Haydn was killed 1917 in France. I believe she was living in Brentford middlesex but his parents lived at queensdale Rd. Holland Park.