It's true that she never married the father of WBR Watson - indeed she had to chase him for child maintenance! There are a range of 'bastardy' documents in the Sussex archives (search at the keep) where the local parish authorities had an arrest warrant made out to detain Bourn Russell so he would pay for the upkeep of the young WBRW. Doesn't sound too friendly,! But old Captain Russell took young WBRW on as a ship's boy, so maybe they worked it out in the end.
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