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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