Researching Elizabeth Watkins
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 18148 people with the Watkins surname? In that year Watkins was ranked number 202 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Elizabeth means "consecrated to God" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Elizabeth Watkins on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Elizabeth Watkins and the Watkins Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Watkins Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Watkins family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 23658 people with the Watkins surname in the UK? Watkins is now ranked number 220 for popularity in the UK. |
Watkins Family History Databases
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Watkins Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 167104 people with the Watkins surname in the USA? Watkins is ranked number 102 for popularity in the USA. |
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Elizabeth Watkins. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Elizabeth Watkins
June Knowles (24 June 1923 – 14 October 2012), better known by her pen name Elizabeth Watkins, was an English author, brought up in Kenya, where her parents - Oscar Ferris Watkins (1877–1943) and Olga Florence Watkins (née Baillie Grohman) (1889–1947) - had started a coffee farm outside Nairobi, and later educated at St Anne's College, Oxford.
In 1941, aged just 18, she falsified her age in order to join up with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force as a cypher officer. Serving in Cairo at the height of the Eighth Army's North African Campaign, she worked at the Heliopolis signals base and other secret locations translating top secret signals for the British High Command, including relaying intercepted German Ultra traffic, intelligence considered so secret that it was not even shared directly with the other Allies. Later posted to Kenya to be with her dying father, she was then sent to the Seychelles, where she supported the dangerous work of the Catalina crews of the Canadian and allied air forces, flying vital anti-submarine missions to protect the sea routes to India. Subsequently, volunteering for further active service she was posted to Caserta to do cyphers for the Allied advance into Southern Italy.
In 1949 she married Oliver Staniforth Knowles (1920–2008) in Nairobi, they had met at Oxford University and moved to Kenya where he was in the Colonial Administration. They had four sons. Watkins died on October 14, 2012 at the age of 89 at her home in Oxford, after a short illness.
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