Elswick, Westgate Hill Cemetery, grave of Joshua Watson

HER Number:
13235

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Elswick, Westgate Hill Cemetery, grave of Joshua Watson

Place:
Elswick

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Grave Marker

Site Type: Specific:
Gravestone

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
Joshua Watson (1771-1853) was born in Allendale. He became a cheesemonger in The Side. In the early 1800s he bought Bensham Grove as a country cottage but lived there permanently. His son Joseph (1807-1874) married Sarah Spence, and became a solicitor and poet. Joseph and Sarah's son Robert Spence Watson (1837-1911) was also a solicitor. He continued to live at Bensham Grove, which became a focus for social and political reformers and Quakers. Joshua Watson's headstone is missing.

Easting:
2370

Northing:
6417

Grid Reference:
NZ23706417

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Alan Morgan, 2004, Beyond the Grave - Exploring Newcastle's Burial Grounds, page 119