Mrs Watson Bagehot
(1829-1902)
4 July 1862

Volume 8, page 184, sitting number 10,355.

Mr Watson Bagehot appears on the 1861 census, a 31-year-old 'Shipbuilder and Merchant' living at Heale House, Curry Rivel, near Langport in Somerset. He was born in Ireland. 

In 1871 he was living in the same place. He now gave his profession as 'Timber Merchant and Coal Merchant.' 

His wife was born Ann Augusta Goldin in Plymouth in or about 1829, the youngest daughter of Robert Goldin of the Royal Navy. On 6 July 1852 at St Andrew's in Plymouth she married Watson Bagehot, son of Charles Watson Bageot, also of the Royal Navy (North Devon Journal, 15 July 1852). Watson Bagehot's second cousin was the journalist and essayist Walter Bagehot, who wrote extensively on the British constitution. 

Watson Bagehot died at Heale House on 12 April 1881, leaving an estate valued at £6000. 

'Annie' Augusta Bagehot died, aged 73, on 20 February 1902 at 67 Uxbridge Road, London. She was buried in the parish of Curry Rivel in Somerset on 26 February 1902. Her estate was valued at £7514.