During the nineteenth century the Great Western Railway in the rapidly expanding town of New Swindon attracted workers from far and wide. Robert Wattleworth from the Isle of Man worked as a railway labourer before becoming licensee at the Falcon Inn on Westcott Place, his wife Jane was born in Carlisle. But the Falcon Inn was a mere stopping off point for the wandering Wattleworth family. Of the seven Wattleworth children who grew up behind the bar at the Falcon Inn, five went to the USA. Sister Esther also did her share of globetrotting, working as a governess for a military family and living in India. In 1903 Esther joined her brother Charles in Akron, Ohio but returned to England in 1910. The couple’s youngest daughter Charlotte sailed from Southampton on the St. Louis in the summer of 1900 to join her sister in Querida, a gold mining town in Colorado. In 1959 Charlotte, then aged 83, made a return visit to Swindon for the first time...