The Glyn-Watkins Connection
Like the sparrow fluttering through King Edwin's feasting hall, this was perhaps a very fleeting acquaintance, though I do well remember the name from the many times I spent staying with Grannie Waddell, and hearing it very well spoken of – perhaps its combination of Anglicanism and heavy engineering scored pretty heavily with the Waddell family ethos.
Perhaps there was also a strong Australian attachment, as both the Glyn-Watkins and the Findlays had been deeply involved in that great continent. But the primary contact with the Cheltenham Glyn-Watkins' was of course Aunt Val Gueritz.
I'm extremely grateful to William Gueritz for providing the all-important Wikipedia entry (see below), and press-cuttings,1, 2 that got this investigation airborne.
Please also note the following ancestry.co.uk sources without which this back-history would never have made sense
- Sarah Bowles Habgood (30 Dec 1846 – 1948): ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/7205671/person/25779980210/facts
- John de Mansfield Absolon (ca 1843 – 8 May 1879): ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/7205671/person/25779993075/facts
- Daniel Glyn Watkins (16 Nov 1845 – 29 Jun 1907): ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/7205671/person/25780152376/facts
Daniel Glyn Watkins (16 November 1845 in Adstock – 29 June 1907 in Perth, Western Australia) was an Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Perth, WA from 1889 until his death. There is a street named after him in Fremantle.
fremantlestuff.info/streets/index.html#W
fremantleanglican.squarespace.com/history/
Watkins Street is named for Archdeacon Daniel Glyn Watkins (1845-1907) was the rector of St John's 1875-1905. He was Archdeacon of Perth 1889-1907. The street formed a portion of the Church Lands Estate.
St John's Church, Freemantle
| # | Individual | Spouse / Partner | Family |
| ‑3 | Rev Daniel Glyn Watkins (16 Nov 1845 – 29 Jun 1907) rector of St John's Fremantle 1875-1905 Archdeacon of Perth 1889-1907 |
Caroline Weight (ca 1848 – 1879) (m 11 or 21 Mar 1870, Southport) |
Caroline Marion Glyn Watkins (b 1871) George Watkin Glyn Watkins (b 1873) Evangeline Mary Glyn Watkins (b 1875) Jessie Charlotte Glyn Watkins (b 1877) |
| Sarah Bowles (née Habgood) Absolon (1846 – 30 Jun 1922) (m 1881) previously married to John de Mansfield Absolon (ca 1843 – 8 May 1879) (m 28 Jun 1870) |
Arthur Glyn Watkins (18 Nov 1882, Fremantle WA – 2 Jun 1932, Cheltenham) Grace Glyn Watkins (b 1884) Dorothy Glyn Watkins (1884 – 1956) Basil Theodore Glyn Watkins (1889 – 1937) | ||
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| ‑2 | Arthur Glyn-Watkins1, 2 (18 Nov 1882, Fremantle WA – 2 Jun 1932, Cheltenham) mgr of National Shell-Filling Factory, Quedgeley (WW1) mgr, MD, Gloucester Railway Wagon & Carriage Co |
Marion Eilen (Mimi) Hall (b ca 1887, Essendon) (m 22 Nov 1913, Paddington) |
Joyce Glyn-Watkins
Sybil Glyn-Watkins |
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| ‑1 | Joyce Glyn-Watkins | Geoffrey St Barbe Connor (m 17 Apr 1937) elder son of Mr & Mrs Connor of Chelsea |
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| ‑1 | Sybil (Bill) Glyn-Watkins | Wing-Cdr James Heathcote Humphris (Jul 1915 – 8 Jan 1945, Dunkirk) (m 6 Jun 1940) secret mission son of Henry James Humphris and Irene Margaret Todd (née Heathcote) Humphris |
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