| Description | Material relating to the history of the extended family of Janet Watson on her mother Katherine's side, including:
1) Family tree information, compiled by various, [nd], including will of Joseph Parker, 1842 and photograph of the Methodist minister Rev Isaiah Parker [Watson's maternal grandfather] and news cuttings reporting his death, 1934.
2) Gibson - Miscellaneous portrait photographs of 'Gibsons', the family of Isiah Parker's second wife Mary Gibson, [1870s-1900s] - includes images of Mary Gibson [one with a young child and her ?brothers and sisters William, Tilda, Bella and Alice, and an older figure identified as Hannah Gibson.
3) Parker - Various photographs likely to be of the Parker family, [1880s-1930s]. [Note: there are three cabinet cards taken in Brockley clearly of siblings. DMS Watson's grandfather was a stockbroker in London and one of the children bears a resemblance to Mary Watson so could be related.]
4) The Rev Isaiah Parker - letters, 1877-1909, from his first/second wife [?Mary] and latterly his children; three photographs of Parker, [1870s-1930s], envelope containing class tickets for the Wesleyan Methodist Society, 1861-1891; two notebooks, one containing notes of a voyage and tour from London to Cairo, Dec 1888-Jan 1889, the other containing notes on theology in part for an examination at Madingley College, 1890. At the back is a mss draft of a sermon by Parker, 9 Dec 1882. Lock of hair in folded paper marked 'M Parker aged 57 years' (presumably his wife Mary Gibson Parker).
5) School notebook of William Parker, of mathematical problems, [c.1800]
6) Dunnington - mss copy of a letter from Jane Dunnington to her brother Thomas, 1857; vellum bound notebook of diary of theological notes made by William Dunnington, 1814.
7) Loose, handwritten sermons/diary entries attributed to James Gill, the Methodist preacher great-grandfather of the Rev Isaiah Parker, 1802-[1830s].
8) Beatrice Parker [Katherine's sister and aunt of Janet Watson] - Letters written by or to Beatrice to various family members, 1910-1953; poster advertising a vocal recital to be given by Beatrice in Edinburgh, 1923; Reproduced commonplace book, with dedication by Beatrice, 1972. |