When John Watts was born in 1814, in Paulton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Watts, was 37 and his mother, Mary Hares, was 35. He married Sarah Burton on 26 December 1836, in Paulton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1861.
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The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
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English: variant of Watt , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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