Thomas William Watkins was born around 1855 to Thomas C. Watkins and Elizabeth Ann Murchison. He was age 7 in the 1861 census of Hamilton. In 1875 he married (Letitia) Jane Delong. In 1884, 1891, and 1901 he was a dry-goods merchant in Hamilton. They had three children. Jane died in Toronto in 1918. Thomas died in Toronto in 1919. In 1920 he was re-interred in the mausoleum of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.
Ontario Census, Wentworth County, Hamilton, 1861, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MQ7S-WC3
Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928--Ancestry.com (Leticia Jane Delong); also https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FMNN-4PJ (William Thomas Watkins)
Ontario Census, Wentworth County, Hamilton City, Subdistrict A Ward 1, Div. 2, 1881--Ancestry.com
Ontario Births.1869-1913, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/27132468/person/2029043530/photox/0cec7cba-042d-4c58-acc7-f709d8de852b?src=search [son William's 1884 birth lists Thomas as merchant]
Ontario Census, Hamilton City, Ward 1, 1891; Roll: T-6341; Family No: 154 --Ancestry.com
Ontario Census, Hamilton City, Ward 2, 1901; page 13; Family No. 119 --Ancestry.com OR https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KH2B-BLV
Ontario Census, Wentworth County, Hamilton West, Distr. 78, Ward 2, Subdistr. 4, 1911--Ancestry.com
Ontario Deaths,1869-1937, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JNR7-98J (Thomas W. Watkins)
Wickenden and Ball, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/11011996/person/-543530319
Schorr-Graham Familiy Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12007683/person/5085785397
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