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Curwen Wason = Margaret Hunter
Curwen Watson:
Born 1846, St Bees, Cumberland1
Died 27 July 19122
Buried Ulverston3
Occupation: Superintendent Furness Railway
Margaret Hartley Hunter:
Alias Margaret Watson
Born 24 July 1845, Aldingham, Lancs
Died 8 June 19354 Buried Ulverston
She is generally described as being in poor health and her daughters were given to understand that they had a duty to remain at home to care for her.
Mary Isabel Watson5
Born about 1875, Ulverston, Lancs6
Occupation: School teacher (elementary) - 1901 census
Born 1876, Ulverston, Lancs7
Died 11 September 19008 Buried Ulverston
Born December 18779
Died 22 January 187910 Buried Ulverston
Born about 1879, Ulverston, Lancs11
No occupation is given in the 1901 census, and she may have been regarded as her mother's housekeeper & principal carer.
Ann(ie) May Watson12 = Howard Andrew Hingston > Family
Married 11 October 1911, Barrow-in-Furness13
Ann(ie) May Watson:
Alias Ann(ie) May Hingston (11 October 1911)
Born 19 December 1883, Ulverston
Died 27 December 1961, Stockport, Manchester
Occupation: nurse
Annie (as she was consistently known throughout her life) was working as a dressmaker at the time of the 1901 census, but was determined to escape the shackles of home life and insisted on training to become a nurse allegedly for that reason. She is said to have shown equal insistance in marrying, but she made a success of both and ended her working life running a nursing home at Grange-over-Sands.
Howard Andrew Hingston:
Born 21 September 1877, Smethwick14
Baptised 1 March 1886, St John's East Harborne15
Died 29 May 1946, Grange-over-Sands
Occupation: Engineering Draughtsman
Howard began work at Tangye's as an office boy at a tender age, and described in the 1901census as a mechanical engineer, in which year he moved to Vickers shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness as an engineering draughtsman. He remained there until he retired in 1943.
Born about 1884, Ulverston16
Born about 1886, Ulverston17
Died 1 March 192318 Buried Ulverston
Listed as a son in the 1901 census and buried with his parents.
Born about 1892, Ulverston19
Died 9 March 193220
Buried Ulverston
Listed as daughter in the 1901 census and included on Curwen and Margaret's gravestone.
note
By the time of the 1881 census Curwen was station-master at Ulverston Station and the family lived on the premises. Rank had its priviledges; Annie used to tell her children of being taken to the seaside for the day in a private railway coach which was parked in a siding until the time came to bring them home. At the 1901 census he had risen to Assistant Railway Superintendent, and the family had moved to 2 Brighton Street, Barrow-in-Furness.
3 : Ulverston cemetery, in double plot below the farthest chapel, granite memorial (TWH)
6 : 1881 census; 1901 census gives age as 25
7 : 1881 census; grave gives age at death as 24
8 : date on family grave with parents
9 : 13 months at death (gravestone)
11 : 1881 census; 1901 census age as 21
12 : Annie is the form she always used and appears on her marriage certificate.
13 : Marriage certificate. Married at St Paul's Church, Parish of Newbarns and Hawes.
14 : Birth certificate. Address given as Raglan Rd Smethwick
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