Biography:
Marian Alice Waterton
07/12/1868 –10/09/1957
Marian Alice Waterton
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Marion Alice Nash Waterton
Marion Alice Nash Coote was born 7h December 1868 in Luton, with her father being William and mother Charlotte Sophia. William was a Tobacconist running a shop at 24 High Street Bedford. By the time of 1881 census Marion had 2 brothers, William and George and 2 sisters, Laura and Katey.
Sadly, by the time of the 1891 census Marion’s father, William has died and the widow, Charlotte, has moved her family back to Berkhamsted, close to where she was born in Potten End. Charlotte is running the public house, The Brownlow Arms in Ravens Lane, assisted by her 2 eldest daughters, Marion and Laura. With William Waterton living in Berkhamsted is it possible that he popped into the pub for a quick pint and met his bride to be, Marion, albeit that the couple did not actually marry until 1897.
Marion assisted her husband William in running a dairy business from premises at 8 Gravel Path, just round the corner from her mother’s pub. Marion had 3 children with William, 2 sons, Harold Joseph, Douglas William (please see footnote) and a daughter, Lucilla.
Marion and her husband continued to run the dairy business for a further 25 years before William’s relatively early death aged 64. Marion remained living in the same area of Berkhamsted, being shown as living at 11 Gravel Path in 1939, with her daughter, now married to Joseph Sugars, living in the old family home/shop at 8 Gravel Path.
We do not see Marion mentioned again in the records until her death on 10th September 1957 aged 89.
Footnote – Douglas William Waterton
Douglas went out to Hong Kong in 1936 to work as a senior inspector in wireless telegraphs. When Hong Kong was captured by the Japanese at the end of 1941, Douglas was interned in Stanly Camp. Due to his skills with telecommunications Douglas was recruited to help with resistance activities in the camp by the British Army Aid Group (part of M19 – army intelligence). Douglas used a radio to transmit information out of the camp to M19. Sadly, the Japanese found out about these activities and after a trial, Douglas and a further 32 internees were sentenced to death – with the executions carried out 29th October 1943.
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Marion Alice Nash Waterton
Marion Alice Nash Coote was born 7h December 1868 in Luton, with her father being William and mother Charlotte Sophia. William was a Tobacconist running a shop at 24 High Street Bedford. By the time of 1881 census Marion had 2 brothers, William and George and 2 sisters, Laura and Katey.
Sadly, by the time of the 1891 census Marion’s father, William has died and the widow, Charlotte, has moved her family back to Berkhamsted, close to where she was born in Potten End. Charlotte is running the public house, The Brownlow Arms in Ravens Lane, assisted by her 2 eldest daughters, Marion and Laura. With William Waterton living in Berkhamsted is it possible that he popped into the pub for a quick pint and met his bride to be, Marion, albeit that the couple did not actually marry until 1897.
Marion assisted her husband William in running a dairy business from premises at 8 Gravel Path, just round the corner from her mother’s pub. Marion had 3 children with William, 2 sons, Harold Joseph, Douglas William (please see footnote) and a daughter, Lucilla.
Marion and her husband continued to run the dairy business for a further 25 years before William’s relatively early death aged 64. Marion remained living in the same area of Berkhamsted, being shown as living at 11 Gravel Path in 1939, with her daughter, now married to Joseph Sugars, living in the old family home/shop at 8 Gravel Path.
We do not see Marion mentioned again in the records until her death on 10th September 1957 aged 89.
Footnote – Douglas William Waterton
Douglas went out to Hong Kong in 1936 to work as a senior inspector in wireless telegraphs. When Hong Kong was captured by the Japanese at the end of 1941, Douglas was interned in Stanly Camp. Due to his skills with telecommunications Douglas was recruited to help with resistance activities in the camp by the British Army Aid Group (part of M19 – army intelligence). Douglas used a radio to transmit information out of the camp to M19. Sadly, the Japanese found out about these activities and after a trial, Douglas and a further 32 internees were sentenced to death – with the executions carried out 29th October 1943.
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