Elizabeth Watts (1814/15–95)

Breeder of domesticated fowls. Kept an egg-producung business at Monk Barnes, Hampstead, London. Author of works on cookery, gardening, and poultry keeping. For some years, editor of the Poultry Chronicle and the poultry department in the Field. Moved to Jersey, Channel Isles, before 1881.

Sources

Camden New Journal, 5 December 2016 (http://beta.camdennewjournal.com/article/crying-fowl-camden-history-review-sheds-light-on-hen-mania accessed 6 February 2018)

CDEL

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1492/36/13)

Census returns of the Channel Islands 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/5617/33/16), 1891 (RG12/4696/50/8)

Correspondence vol. 9, letter from B. P. Brent, 15 June 1861

Jersey, Church of England deaths and burials, 1813–1940 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 February 2018)

NUC.

Volumes

9,12