Robert Stott Watkins

Robert was born on October 2nd, 1895 in Newchurch in Rossendale.¹ 

• Birth Notes

  Name:    Robert Stott Watkins
  Registration Year:    1895
  Registration Quarter:    Oct-Nov-Dec
  Registration district:    Haslingden, Lancashire
  Volume:    8e
  Page:    85
  
  Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1895
  WATKINS    Robert Stott    DRAINE    Rawtenstall A 1st    Preston    R.A/1/72
  
  1939 register shows DOB.

Robert's father was Alfred James Watkins and his mother was Sarah Ann Drain.  His paternal grandparents were <unknown> and Sarah Watkins; his maternal grandparents were John Draine and Winifred Astley. He had two brothers and four sisters, named John, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth, Rose and Bertha.  He was the second youngest of the seven children.  He died at the age of 68 in December 1963 in Haslingden.² 

• Death Notes

  Name:    Robert S Watkins
  Death Age:    68
  Birth Date:    abt 1895
  Registration Date:    Dec 1963
  Registration district:    Haslingden, Lancashire
  Volume:    10c
  Page:    353
  
  Robert Stott Watkins died at Newchurch in 1963

‌Robert and Alice were married in a civil ceremony in 1919 in Haslingden.⁴ 

• Marriage/Union Notes

  Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1919
  DRAINE    Alice Hannah    WATKINS    Robert Stott    Hyndburn Register Office or Registrar Attended

They had a son and a daughter, named Jack and Dorothy.  There are no more children.