DEATH OF AN OLD WANGANUI IDENTITY, MRS. JAMES WATT

Wanganui Chronicle, 20 December 1950, Page 9

DEATH OF AN OLD WANGANUI IDENTITY, MRS. JAMES WATT

It was with regret that Wanganu: learned o£ the passing of one of its oldest identities, in the person of Annie Morrison, widow of the late James Paton Watt, of the well known legal firm of Messrs. Watt, Currie and Jack, of Wanganui. After a not very long illness Mrs. Jas. Watt passed quietly away at Dunedin on Thursday last, December 14. Born in 1863, at Aberdeen, Scotland, she was the youngest of a family of seven; the parents, Isabella Massie Johnston (nee Morrison) and Fraser Linton Johnston, took their family to live in London shortly after the birth of their youngest child. On the death of Mr. Johnstone in 1878, the widow and family migrated to Australia where the eldest son had established himself in the shipping industry. They had a fine old home in Neutral Bay, where the late Mrs Watt was married in 1891. Mr. James Watt returned to Wanganui with his bride and they made their home at "Arawa,” St. John's Hill. The late Mr Jas. Watt is survived by her only son, Dr Morris N. Watt, senior lecturer in the Department of Bacteriology at the Medical School, Dunedin and four grandchildren.