The WEATHERSTON Connection
The WEATHERSTON Connection
On revisiting some earlier research, I find that I first discovered the WEATHERSTON-PALMER connection as far
back as 2001.
I was searching for my gt gt grandfather's elder brother, Stephen PALMER on the 1881 census and I found him
living with his married daughter and her family in South Shields:
RG11 Piece 5020 Folio 8 Page 12
King Street House & Shop, South Shields, Durham
FOLIO/SCH.
| NAME
| RELN
| COND.
| AGE
| OCCUPATION
| WHERE BORN
Folio 8, pg. 12
| Andrew WEATHERSON
| Head
| M
| 43
| Boot and Shoe Dealer
| Northumberland
.
| Elizabeth
| Wife
| M
| 44
| .
| Suffolk
.
| Robert
| Son
| U
| 15
| .
| Northumberland
.
| Stephen L.
| Son
| U
| 13
| .
| Northumberland
.
| Elizabeth A.
| Daughter
| U
| 11
| .
| Northumberland
.
| Isabella A.
| Daughter
| U
| 6
| .
| South Shields, Durham.
.
| Stephen PALMER
| Father In Law
| check
| 67
| Millwright
| [BS], Spain
|
| | | | | | | |
At that time I thought the family name was WEATHERSON, as per the 1881 England Census transcript - which
is why I couldn't find any trace of them on the 1891 England census or in the GRO Indexes.
But once I found Elizabeth and Andrew's marriage registration, I was away :)
Now the puzzles began:
Why did Stephen take his family upto Northumberland in the first place - far away from the Fens of
Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire? Possibly for the same reason that his brother William took his family
to Lancashire - there was no work in Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire in the mid 19th Century due to an
Agricultural Depression.
And where was Elizabeth, Stephen's wife?
One thing I have found is that the name WEATHERSTON in the Borders is as bad as the PALMER name in
Norfolk - they're everywhere!
October 2008 - Isabella Jane WEATHERSTON of Norham, Horncliffe and Tweedmill -
is she a connection? As she surely had an interesting life, but again, more questions than answers.
Andrew & Elizabeth WEATHERSTON
Stephen PALMER
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This page created 24 October 2008
& amended/updated 18:40 17/02/2019