TILLEY
with roots in Somerset, England
family
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Benjamin Watchorn
Benjamin, the son of Thomas and Sarah Watchorn, was born in Harby on 10 August 1880. He married Edith Kate Bust on 6 March 1905 at Ab Kettleby, Leicestershire, and they had seven children – May, Katie, Norman, Roland, Raymond, Isobel and Stuart. When he and Edith lived at Redmile, they had their own farm (the first to be bought from the Duke of Rutland’s estate). He died 24 May 1954. Edith was born in Ab Kettleby in January 1883 and died 28 February 1951.
Ben Watchorn at the
top of Tithby hill by the railway cutting. Tithby is a village in Nottinghamshire, about two miles south of Bingham.
Ben and Edith Watchorn with four of their seven children: May (1910), Katie (1913), Ben (1914) and Roland (1919).
In the 1939 Register, Ben Watchorn is living in Chapel Lane, Bingham, near Nottingham, with his son Norman who is a chauffeur and daughters Katie and Isobel, an embroidery machinist.
Ben and Edith Watchorn outside their home at 12 Pisgah House Road in Sheffield.
In a photo taken in 1979, three of Ben and Edith Watchorn's children – Isobel Kettle, May Anyan and Stuart, as well as Max – stand outside Redmile Farm. The farm, owned by Ben, was the first to be bought out of the Belvoir Estate (Duke of Rutland). May lived here as a child.
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The Grantham Journal newspaper announced the silver wedding anniversary of Edith Bust and Benjamin Watchorn in 1930.
Edith, who died on 28 February 1951, left her money to her eldest daughter May and her husband William Frederick Anyan.