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| Margaret Amelia Watkins was born March 12, 1875 in Cumberland, Harrington, England, the daughter of George Watkins and Ann Jones Watkins
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| Amelia, as she was called, met Robert Wilson Thomson, a Scot, and they married on May 1, 1911. They immigrated through Canada to America. Their daughter Annjean Elizabeth Thomson was born in Lomond, Albert, Canada during their travels on March 5, 1913.
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| Robert and Amelia settled in Long Beach, California where he worked for an oil refinery. They had another child, a son named Robert Watkins Thomson who was born June 10, 1917.
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| Amelia died October 17, 1922 at age 47. Their son Robert died June 18, 1933 at age 16 of "peritonitis." |
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