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Name: WATSON, James Kerr CBE

Nee: son of James Kerr Watson

Birth Date: 14.2.1910 Nairobi

Death Date: ?12 Aug 1984 Cuckfield

First Date: 1936

Profession: Asst. Engineer PWD Uganda 1936; Exec. Engineer Grade I 1946; Assistant DPW 1948; Deputy DPW 1950; DPW 1956; Perm. Sec. and Engineer-in-chief Min. of Works 1960-63

Area: Uganda

Married: 1933 Nancy Hogg. ?Agnes Mary Boyd Blackwood b. 1906

Children: James Archibald (1935); Agnes Sheila (1936)

Book Reference: Colonial, Uganda Staff

School: Govt. Sch. Nairobi. AMInstCE, AMInstM&Cy, AMTPI

General Information:

Uganda Staff 1938 - Asst. Engineer, PWD, Mbale, appointed 1936
Gazette - Voters List 1936 - James Kerr Watson (jnr), Civil Engineer, Box 651, Nbi and Mrs Nancy Watson, Box 651, Nbi
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for birth - gives mother's first forename as Helen
Ancestry Passenger list London-Mombasa 6 Sep 1947 has wife as Agnes Mary Boyd Blackwood b. 1906

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