Photocopies and photographs
Reference: D/Ph 428 Catalogue Title: Photocopies and photographs Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Watson Family of Barnard Castle
Covering Dates: 1812-2000s
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Catalogue Description
Born in 1787, George Watson was the fifth son of John and Elizabeth Watson. His father was a linen and woolen draper in Barnard Castle. George's brother William went on to become a solictor, establishing a practice in Barnard Castle that remained in his family for three generations.George graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1810. He took Holy Orders in 1814 and became a chaplain with the Duke of Wellington's army in the south of France. Later that year, he joined the expedition of General Ross to America, but died on the passage home in the Gulf of Mexico on 28 March 1815, aged 26 years.
See Watson Family Collection (DCRO Ref: D/Wn) for more records relating to the Watson family.
See Watson Solicitors' Collection (DCRO Ref: D/Wat) for business records.
See also 'Barnard Castle in Old Picture Postcards' by Alan Wilkinson (DCRO Library Reference B9), for two photographs, marked 64 and 65, relating to the Watson family. Photocopies of these were also included in this deposit, but have not been retained.
Catalogue Contents
Watson Family of Barnard Castle (Ref: D/Ph 428/1-7)George Watson's journal (Ref: D/Ph 428/1-2)Ref: D/Ph 428/1
Photocopy of a contemporary transcript of George Watson's journal, concerning his journey to join the Duke of Wellington's Army in the south of France, 4 April - 2 June 1814, and his service with the American expedition under General Robert Ross, including the burning of the White House and Watson's death at sea, 29 May - 13 March 1815
[See D/Wn 2/34 for original of the first part, concerning his time in France]
(46 papers)
Ref: D/Ph 428/2Typed transcript of D/Ph 428/1, George Watson's journal, concerning his journey to join the Duke of Wellington's Army in the south of France, 4 April - 2 June 1814, and his service with the American expedition under General Robert Ross, including the burning of the White House and Watson's death at sea, 29 May - 13 March 1815
Includes modern note with short biography
(36 papers)
Research and notes regarding George Watson (Ref: D/Ph 428/3-4)Ref: D/Ph 428/3Photographs and transcript of memorial plaque in St. Mary's church, Barnard Castle, to George Watson, n.d. [1990s]
(2 photographs, mounted on paper)
Ref: D/Ph 428/4Photocopy of map of France, highlighting places George Watson visited, n.d. [2000s]
(1 paper)
Research and notes regarding the Watson family (Ref: D/Ph 428/5-7)Ref: D/Ph 428/5Sale particulars for Spring Lodge, Barnard Castle, built in 1825 for William Watson (1794-1883, George Watson's brother) and owned by his descendants until 1989, includes photographs, descriptions of rooms and floor plan, n.d. [c.1997]
(5 papers)
Ref: D/Ph 428/6Genealogical notes relating to George Watson's father (John Watson, 1747-1800), mother (Elizabeth Watson nee Crawford, 1754-1834), his siblings, his nephew (William James Watson, 1838-1920) and William James Watson's grandson (William Innes Watson, 1906-1988), includes pedigree starting with John Watson, n.d. [2000s]
(10 papers)
Ref: D/Ph 428/7Photocopy of pages from 'Barnard Castle in Old Picture Postcards' by Alan Wilkinson, showing a photograph of William James Watson (1838-1920), his son Harry Crawford Watson (1864-1934) and his grandson William Innes Watson (1906-1988), outside Spring Lodge in 1913, and a photograph of domestic staff at Spring Lodge in 1898
(1 paper)
