Some Clothier and Watts Families Info
This site contains a compilation of family history and
genealogical information for several thousand people with
surnames Clothier and Watts, and including hundreds of
related surnames.
Clothier Families of New England, Canada, and Midwest
Our information begins with the first known Clothier
ancestor, our colonial emigrant from England, a Jeremiah
Clothier. Starting at the Connecticut colony, the Clothier
family migrated to western Mass and then to the upper Hudson
region of NY state. Then to western NY and on to Kansas
and the Midwest. From NY, some Clothiers protested the
American revolution and went to Ontario, Canada as
Loyalists. Others joined the Morman pilgrimage to Utah. Some
Clothiers continued to California. Our immigrant was a
dissenter, meaning he was a 'newer' Protestant and not
Church of England. He arrived in Connecticut as an
indentured servant. Most of his descendants today follow
Jeremiah's Christian leanings, typically mainstream and
fundamental. Other Clothiers of the Quaker religion came
later to Pennsylvania and are not included here. The reader
will find thousands of people listed here that will confirm
an expectation that genes developed from the rural
occupation 'Clothier', from Southwestern England, continues
to shape the lifestyle and work ethic of American Clothiers,
today....many farmers!
Watts Families of the South and West
The Watts family in America is much larger than the
Clothiers, So the present site will list a relatively
smaller percentage of the Watts population in America.
Because there were many more Watts emigrants from Scotland
and England and we follow only one, here.We include the
branch, starting with a John Watts, who emigrated to
Virginia and started a family that spread westward, mostly
living in southern tier states: Virginia, Kentucky,
Missouri, via the Cumberland Pass, and later on to Oregon
and California via the Oregon Trail. One of the most notable
traits of this Watts family is that they made good use of
'land grabs', acquiring land for free, or on the cheap, as
they moved westward. They resold, moved, repeated, and this
was the basis for their wealth. We also see a Watts
preference for entrepreneurship over traditional farming.
The dominant religion of this Watts branch is the
Presbyterian church.
Interactive Family Tree
For starters, we invite visitors to click on either of the
"Interactive Family Tree" buttons, at the left. This will
bring up the online program PhpGedView, which allows
searching and charting. There are now over 1000 relatives,
most of which no one will care about. Nonetheless ,we ask
relatives to add to this data. Problem is, this on-line
program, PhPGedView, is sometimes hard to update. One needs
to be logged in and study the help secion. So we enter all
the peeps data using another, super easy desktop program
called Ahnnenblatt. We are asking family reps to do the
same, using a portable version of Ahnenblatt (runs on usb
stick). Then we have to export the contributed ancestry
files (Gedcoms) and upload to the on-line program. And
repeat that process whenever there is new people info. Note
that most living people have only name information
displayed. This is for privacy. So, one must be logged in to
view the younger people's details.
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