WATSON, Oswald Doran
17 March 1902 – 17 March 1985
Origin Norton-On-Tees, England
Accompanying Family John Frederick Watson & Mary Watson (Parents)
First settled in Forest Hill via Mt Barker, WA
Original Occupation Scholar
Occupation in Australia Teacher/Farmer/Poet
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Departure Port Liverpool
Arrival Year 1911
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Family took up land at Forest Hill, Mt Barker. Uncle CB Watson already farming there at 'Morton Vale', a farm he left to Oswald in 1934. Oswald's mother was the first Teacher at Forest Hill School. Os was a Teacher/Farmer/Writer & Poet. He married Wilma Macnamara in 1929 & they had two daughters.
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