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Name: WATSON, Douglas Denovan
Nee: son of Andrew Macrae Watson
Birth Date: 1930 Nairobi
Death Date: Apr 2001 Gilgil
First Date: 1930
Profession: Farmer
Area: Embakasi, Nairobi
Married: 1995 Mrs Hazel Irene Munn, formerly Mrs Woods
Book Reference: EAWL, Hut, mini-Sitrep XXI
War Service: Kenya Regiment Sniper section in Mau Mau Emergency
School: Parklands Primary School, Prince of Wales School, Nairobi
General Information:
Andrew Macrae Watson's fourth son, Doug, then in his 20s [in 1950], who had joined his father, decided to start the farming activities all over again on the remaining Athi side of the land and with his own hands built a homestead also named Braemar. He created a home for his parents and Elizabeth his grandmother. In the early 70s the remaining land was acquired by the government for the extension of the airport. Andrew died in his 90th year in 1972. Doug became the only member of the Watson family remaining in Kenya where he lived quietly.