Name: Ellen Rose Mannum WATKINS
Also known as: Nesta Rose Roberts
Born: 4 Aug 1877 At: Mt Torrens, SA, AUS Sex: F
Christened: At:
Died: ? At: ? Cause:
Burial /cremation: At:
Parents: Father: ? Mother: ?
Spouse/partner: Walter James BENGER Born: 2 Aug 1875 Died: 26 Feb 1917
Married: 25 Jul 1911 At: Methodist Parsonage, Perkin St, Newcastle, NSW, AUS
Children: Nita Fay BENGER

Biographical notes:


Daughter of Thomas Charles Watkins & Ann Wood.
Married Walter Henry Stott 24 Jun 1894 at Lobethal, SA. At marriage to Walter Benger she gave false name 'Nesta Rose Roberts' & family information: father 'William Roberts (sawyer)' mother 'Ann Roberts'.
Name on birth certificate of daughter Nita was Nesta Rose Watkins. Name on husband's death certificate given as Nella not Nesta.
After Walter's death (1917) she became publican of the Royal Hotel, Morpeth until 1920. Reference documents:
1877 birth registration index record.
1894 marriage registration index record (to Thomas H Stott).
1911 marriage certificate (to Walter James Benger).