WATSON, Andrew Nicholson
Origin Dysart, Scotland
Accompanying Family Mary Kirk Beveridge Gibson WATSON (wife); Andrew Nicholson WATSON (son); Mary Kirk Beveridge WATSON (daughter); Robert Gibson WATSON (son); Janet Spiers WATSON (daughter).
First settled in Collie, Western Australia
Original Occupation Carpenter
Occupation in Australia Carpenter
BERRIMA
Departure Port Tilbury, London
Arrival Year 1927
Fremantle
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Andrew flew with Royal Flying Corp as a carpenter during WW1. Later he joined Prudential Insurance. Doctors suggested a change would benefit his nervous condition (due to war) so he migrated to Australia. Employed as carpenter on a coalmine in Collie and in 1952 retired to South Perth.
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