Elizabeth Watts
1814/15–95
Breeder of domesticated fowls. Kept an egg-producung business at Monk Barnes, Hampstead, London. Author of works on cookery, gardening, and poultry keeping. For some years, editor of the Poultry Chronicle and the poultry department in the Field. Moved to Jersey, Channel Isles, before 1881.
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Camden New Journal, 5 December 2016 (http://beta.camdennewjournal.com/article/crying-fowl-camden-history-review-sheds-light-on-hen-mania accessed 6 February 2018)
CDEL
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1492/36/13)
Census returns of the Channel Islands 1881 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG11/5617/33/16), 1891 (RG12/4696/50/8)
Correspondence vol. 9, letter from B. P. Brent, 15 June 1861
Jersey, Church of England deaths and burials, 1813–1940 (Ancestry.com, accessed 6 February 2018)
NUC.
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NUC: The national union catalog. Pre-1956 imprints. 685 vols. and supplement (69 vols.). London and Chicago: Mansell. 1968–81.
