Records of Watson Reid on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Watson Reid and the Reid Family History

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Reid 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Reid family tree.

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Reid Family History Databases

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Some Famous People called Watson Reid

Watson Elkinah Reid

Watson Elkinah Reid (1858–1944) was a Canadian architect, a one time member of the California architectural firm, Reid & Reid.

Watson Elkinah Reid was born in 1858 in Harvey, Albert County, New Brunswick to William J. Reid and Lucinda Robinson. He was the youngest of three sons who all followed the same profession. He studied at Mount Allison University and about 1888, he joined his brothers James W. and Merritt in California, where he ran their San Diego office, overseeing construction of the massive Hotel del Coronado to his brother's designs. He returned to Canada in 1899 and had a few commissions there under the auspices of Senator Abner Reid McClelan. These included the Riverside-Albert Consolidated School and the Albert County Court House. In his later years he moved to Vancouver where he died in 1944.

In 1890, he married Janie R. Turner of Harvey. They had five children, all born before 1901.

Source: Watson Elkinah Reid, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Other names that sound a bit like Reid

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