My Ancestral Journey » Albert Watson (1882-1951)

Persoonlijke gegevens Albert Watson 

• Hij is geboren op 14 september 1882 in Guelph,Ontario.
• Hij is overleden op 3 september 1951, hij was toen 68 jaar oud.
• Een kind van David Bain Watson en Mary Ellen Jordan

Gezin van Albert Watson

Hij is getrouwd met Margaret Bauldry.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 10 augustus 1904 te Toronto,Canada, hij was toen 21 jaar oud.

Notities over Albert Watson

The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin
& Jan Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:

6. ALBERT WATSON was born September 14, 1882. By exaggerating his age, he
was admitted into the service at age 14. In 1896, he was on a ship
heading to Africa, to fight in the Boar War, when peace was declared. His
grandson Albert Deslippe said, when the ship reached the International
Dateline, he was required to go through the King Neptune initiation.
Anyone who hadn't crossed before had to swim around the boat and do other
rituals. He was also bitten by a tarantula spider during his time in the
service.

Albert Deslippe also reported that his grandfather had wrestled
professionally at one time.

He married Margaret (Maggie) Bauldry, August 10, 1904 in Toronto. She
was from Toronto. The Watson's had four children in Toronto, but only two
lived, Helen and Freda. On Freda's birth certificate in 1906, Albert's
occupation was listed as silk maker.

Albert and Maggie decided to move to the United States. They came to
Detroit Michigan and rented a home from Frank Ternes, who ran a coal
business and was also into real estate.

The following story was submitted by Albert's daughter, Edith (Freda):
"Albert Watson got a job as a motorman on the city streetcars and Maggie
became pregnant with her fifth child. Maggie was on her way to the Ternes
home at 273 Twelfth Street to pay the rent. She tripped on the sidewalk.
Mrs.
Ternes saw he and ran out and put a pillow under her head and called
Frank Ternes at his office which was just two and a half blocks away. He
came home called the ambulance and took her to Providence Hospital. There
she gave birth to her child. She died that afternoon, and the baby died
three months later.

Albert had two little girls, Helen and Freda, but there was no one to
take care of them. The only relatives he had were unable to help and
Albert did not want to go back to Canada. He decided to give them up for
adoption.

A family by the name of Ford took Helen but for some reason or other
it did not work out and they brought her back to her father.

Frank and Madeline Ternes lost three children so they adopted Freda
and renamed her Edith Mary Madeline after one of the children they lost.
They had two boys, Norman and Orrin and now they had a girl."

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Maggie Watson was buried May 17, 1911 in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Albert was reunited with Edith when she was about thirteen. Edith
remembered "A girl came to my home and told me she was my sister Helen
Watson. She told me my father Albert wanted to see me. She wanted me to
go with her the next Sunday to meet my father. I asked my mother and she
said I could go. The following Sunday Mother pinned a small corsage on me
kissed me good-bye and said, "Don't forget to come home."

"We had lunch and Helen and I were taking care of the dishes when a
lady and a little girl came in. The lady I found out was my dad's second
wife and the little girl his daughter Gertrude. Dad and Margaret, his
wife were separated. I don't know what happened and I didn't ask any
questions, and Dad never told me. Eventually they got back together."

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Albert's grandson Albert Deslippe writes, "Albert Watson, my
grandfather, was a very strict man. As you know he was born in Guelph,
Ontario. He married Margaret Blase, his second wife, from Essexville,
Michigan, near Bay City, around 1912. He had a daughter, my mother
Gertrude, on May 8, 1915.

Something happened around 1922, his wife and daughter left him at
his request. Margaret, his wife, took a job as a live in housekeeper for
a millionaire family in Detroit and for the next eight years neither she
or Gertrude saw Albert Watson. In 1930 Albert came for them and they went
home.
By now Helen, his daughter from his first marriage was married and lived
in a house next door to him with her husband Paul Sherer. One night in
1933 or som

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