(We have been unable to find a William Wilson with the Occupation Sugar Baker in the Scottish census.)
Catherine was the daughter of Thomas Beattie and Alice. Both were born in Ireland and Alice had stated that she was born in Dublin.
Thomas was a Porter/Huxter (Sells small wares, or a street seller of ale)
They had four children John, Martin, Catherine and Margaret.
(When he was 69 he was living in the Whitechapel workhouse.) Thomas died in 1858 at the age of 77.
Robert Wilson and Catherine had three children William born 1849, Robert born 1858, and Alice in 1859, all were Christened at St Dunstan in Stepney.
Their first son William married Mary Ann Pinchback on the 13th October 1879 at All Hallows Bromley by Bow.
Between September 1880 and January 1889 they had five children, Catherine, William, Benjamin, Robert, and Arthur.
They were living in Orchard Street Rainham in Kent when on the 28 March 1890 William Died he was 41 years old. His occupation had been a Cooper.
We can only imagine the terrible life Mary would have had, being left with five very young children to bring up with only the money that she earned by taking in sewing.
On the 14th June 1893 they all entered the Milton Regis Workhouse.
The next day Mary was taken to Chartham Hospital where she died 15 years later on the 10th December 1913.
Mary Ann Wilson (Nee Pinchback)
The children stayed at the workhouse, but they frequently went for weekends at Mary's sister Louisa's home.
When Catherine reached the age of fourteen she went to work at a school in Margate.
William, Benjamin and Robert were all were apprenticed to Bakers at the age of fourteen.
Arthur went to Borden Grammar school in Sittingbourne at the age of twelve. 
He is recorded as having successfully taken the Oxford junior examination in 1903 and the Cambridge senior examination with first class honours in 1905, together with the London matriculation in the same year.
He left Borden School in 1905 and possibly went in to one of the Armed services.
(June 2009 We have found more information about Arthur. Click on the link)
We were told that Catherine had married a Doctor but so far we have been unable to find her in the records
William and Robert both did very well in later years Robert became an Architect.
Benjamin Married Rosalind Ivy Lemon on the 4th August 1907.
Benjamin remained a Baker and was a leading light in the Bakers Union.
He frequently spoke at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park London.
He was an acquaintance of Aneurin Bevan.
We know that at one Time he was a Trapeze Artiste with a troupe called the Swann Brothers..jpg)
Benjamin Wilson
Benjamin with his wife Rosalind Ivy and their eldest children Gertrude and William
William their eldest child went to School at Tollington Park school in Holloway North London. His parents were living at Hatchard Road at the time.
After he left school he went to work at Crowes a Shipping Agent later called LEP Transport in London
He Married Gladys Ellen Hoffmann 26 Jun 1937 at Islington Register Office
When the War started in 1939 he joined the Police Force
Later on in the War he joined the Marines
On board the ship HMS Sainfoin (Standing second left in the back row)
While sailing home the ship was diverted to help another ship that had caught fire. This is a newspaper report of the event.
1966 with his first grandchild Karen.jpg)
1969 in Wales with Karen and ClareWilliam died on the 9th May 1970 two months after our son Matthew was born.
