Mr and Mrs Thomas Watson move to England

Mr and Mrs Thomas Watson left the USA to go and live in England, at Kingswood Manor, near Reigate in Surrey. 'Tom' Watson became Chairman of the local Parish Council there. Emma later sued her Father for the return of the properties that she had given back to him after her marriage to Thomas Watson. Her lawyers argued that she should not have given the Hawaiian properties away without the permission of her new husband!
There is little doubt that Thomas Watson was a 'gold-digger', as feared by Emma's father, the super-wealthy Claus Spreckels. Tom had gone to America in the 1880s, as a Grain Broker, leaving a wife and daughter at home in England. How, then did he manage to marry the young heiress and daughter of his friend in the USA? The New York Times reports that he managed to divorce his first wife in Nevada. I wonder if she knew? In 1892 his daughter from that first marriage was living in Brooklyn,  according to the US census.   Anita's probate record in 1908 states a '£50' bequest to Catherine Watson, widow. It looks as if Tom's first wife Catherine survived her ex-husband by 21 years. When she died in 1925 she left £19,902 12s 7d to her nephew, George Heath Crocket.
At least Catherine seems to have been well provided for and also their daughter Anita .The latter seems to have been good friends with her stepmother as they are only a year apart in age. They travel to the USA together in 1904, aged 35 and 34. Anita lived in Hale, Cheshire, possibly with her Mother. Catherine died in a house on the promenade, in Blackpool which, if she owned, explains the
money she left. Maybe that old scoundrel Tom Watson made provision for both his ex-wife and daughter as well as his new family.