WATLING, ANNIE Born in 1830 in Greenwich: 71 in 1901.Married in 1865. Widowed but now remarried, she lives in Deptford, where, with her husband and her step-grandson, she runs a boarding house for seamen.
  WATLING, ELIZA Born in 1827, in Greenwich: 74 in 1901. Married in 1849. Now a widow, she lives in Rotherhithe
with three parrots and a tortoise named Mr Gladstone.
  WATLING, SAMUEL Born in Greenwich in 1822. A waterman and lighterman. Also worked as a mariner in merchant ships.
Died of yellow fever in 1848, aged 26, in Long Reach Hospital, Dartford.
  WATLING, THOMAS Born in 1833 in Greenwich, A waterman and lighterman. Never married, but lived with his sister Maria,
his brother-in-law Horace Rose, and his five nephews and neices, George, Maria, Albert, Maud and Louisa. His nephew George Rose was his apprentice. He died in 1890, aged 57, of bronchitis and pneumonia.
  WATLING WILLIAM

Born in Greenwich in 1820. A waterman and lighterman. Died in 1850, aged 30, after an accident at work. He slipped on the edge of a dock as a barge was mooring. His leg was crushed between the barge and the dock wall. He died three weeks later of blood poisoning.
  WRIGHT SAMUEL (Cousin Sam) Born in 1882, 19 in 1901. Sam’s parents are Alice and Stephen Wright. Sam’s mother Alice is George Rose’s cousin. Alice’s father, Samuel Watling, was Granny Maria’s brother. Sam is Granny Maria’s favourite grandson. Sam grew up in Woolwich. Sam is an apprentice in a ship building yard in Greenwich. Sam lives in Greenwich because it is close to his work. He lodges with his uncle, aunt, cousins and grandparents at 27 Little Thames Street. Sam goes home to Woolwich on Sundays, to see his parents.