WATSONS IN SOUTH AFRICA
While the content of this website is too broad for a genealogical family tree organogram, it is also diffifult to create easy time and connection lines between events and people. I frequently cross reference and hope that you manage to follow through. Our subject here skips between Scotland, England, Poland, Macao and South Africa. You will find family relevant to South Africa in each of those sections, but we pick up the story with Thomas Boswell Watson's offspring. Not all of them follow through to my family, but do between them establish a South African presence which we imagine encourages later settlement.
Remember that independent of these were the "1820 Settlers" of which Millers are the family significant to our Watson story. These are described under MILLERS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
One of Thomas Boswell's sons, John Alexander Stuart, born in Macao on 16th March 1854 married Lydia Jane Ward in Cape Town, South Africa, on 6th November 1888. Their children were Magaret Stedman born in Cape Town on 5th August 1890 and who was married in England and Stuart McDonald born in Rondebosch, Cape Town on 14th March 1898. [ Remember to add "Watson" behind each name].
Five Watson brothers
Each of Maud and Alexander Watson's sons, Jack, Dennis, Scott, Brian and Graham have their own sections, but here we find an opportunity for shared events.
One memory that I have with 3 of them together was one Christmas in the Cape. Lunch was with Graham and Elise. They did not yet have a Christmas tree. So off they went in search of one. Jack, the more gung-ho of the brothers led them with me squashed in the back of the car up into the hills above Rhondebosch. Armed with an axe they simply chopped one down in the state forest and shoved it trailling out of the car boot. The other brothers and me felt somewhat guilty. Nice tree that year.
