1901 census help please or any other info please

census look up please 1901
hi im looking for peter watson living at 1 regent road,leicestershire, 1904.can someone help me with a census.
i beleive this is the father of my uncle colin lennox....he was brought up by my grandad but i have his birth certificate, and my nannie was his mum marie louise dunnett but peter was his father on his birth certificate.born 1904 in south leicestershire. peter was down as working as a wool carder ...many thanks brenda xxx colin lennox born 15/06/1904 was regitered twice,his mums surname dunnett and peter,s watson,nannie hadnt married grandad untill 1908 in leicester but moved to leeds. with peter watson
30,newtown street leicester

[Mary from Italy]

Just to avoid duplication, I've tried helping Bren with this on FTF, but drawn a blank so far.

This is Colin's birth:

Births Sep 1904
DUNNETT Colin Lennox Leicester 7a 288
WATSON Colin Lennox Leicester 7a 288

On his birth cert the place of birth and his mother's address is given as 1 Regent Road (which I think may be the Regent Road maternity hospital). His father is shown as Peter Watson, wool carder, of 30 Newtown Street, Leicester.

I can't find a Peter Watson born or living in Leics. in 1901 or 1911, and there's no burial in that name in the main Leicester cemetery, but perhaps someone with an FMP sub could do an address search to see who was living at 30 Newtown Street, Leicester in 1911?

Bren also thinks Peter may have been Scottish - off to check the 1901 Scottish census.

thankyou mary .......hope someone here might help brenda xxx

[Mary from Italy]

Ooh! Possibly got him first time- Should have thought of the 1901 Scottish census sooner. Doesn't take us very far, though, because he's a boarder with another family if it's the right person.

Peter Watson, wool carder, aged 35, born Inverness, living at 35 Wells Street, Inverness with Ann Fraser, her children Colin, Andrew and Jane, and visitors Christina McKenzie and James McSwayed.

This is the only person on the 1901 Scottish census with the right occupation. And I think Lennox is a Scottish name.

[Mary from Italy]

Can't see Peter yet in the earlier Scottish censuses; I've found Ann Fraser with her husband Alexander and children in 1881 and 1891, but Peter isn't with them (I wondered if he might be Ann's brother).

[Mary from Italy]

There are quite a few Peter Watson births on Scotlandspeople at around the right time (1866-ish), but none in the Inverness district. There are also a few Watson-Lennox marriages (I wondered if his mother's maiden name might have been Lennox), but again, none in the Inverness district.

Is the 1911 Scottish census online yet?

[kiterunner]

No, we have to wait a while yet for that, unfortunately.

[Mary from Italy]

In the 1891 Scottish census there's also a Peter Watson, 20, wool carder, born St Ninians, Stirlingshire, living at Hayford Lodge, St Ninians, Stirlingshire, with parents James and Catherine and sister Agnes.

[Mary from Italy]

Ooh, bingo! (unless it's an almighty coincidence).

In 1881 that Peter Watson, aged 10, is living at St. Ninians with parents James and Catherine, sisters Mary and Agnes and maternal grandfather Peter Lennox.

Now perhaps we're getting somewhere.

[Mary from Italy]

Bren, I'll send you a PM with the full census details, becuse I don't think we can cut and paste them here.

I've found them back to 1861 in Scotland. There's a probable marriage for Catherine Lennox and James Watson at Kincardine, Perthshire (where Catherine was born) in 1865 on Scotlandspeople, but you have to buy credits to get the details.

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/