William (Captain) Hogg Watt was born on 14 August 1818 in Dundee, Angus, SCT, age 74 in 1892 JGOC died aged 74.
1,2,3 He and
Frances Margaret Day were married in 1846 in Wanganui, NZ.
3 He died on 7 March 1893, at age 74, in Wanganui, NZ.
3 Ship's Captain and later a founding father of Wanganui , established a company TAYLOR and WATT JJ
30 descendants in 1892 JGOC
"my Watt family patriarch did arrive on the Planter in 1840 although he was supposed to have been in and out of NZ from Australia in 1839." LIBU
"I typed in my Watt name for William Hogg Watt and he came up but you had unknown for his wife She was Frances Margaret Day William Hogg Watt was around NZ on the Planten or similar name just before 1839 as a crew member and then joined up with Thomas Taylor to Whanganui from Sydney Australia .
They set up a coastal shipping supply with a small ship called The Katherine Johnston . They acquired more ships over time and branched out into doing just about everything from Whanganui " LIBU
"William Hogg Watt b 14th August 1818 son of George Watt and his first wife Margaret Paton b 9th August 1795 in Dundee Angus Scotland. William Hogg Watt was born in Dundee, Angus, Scotland Mariner, Merchant, Farmer, Politician, Mayor of Wanganui etc.
He arrived in Australia about 1939 and was a mate or captain on various ships including the Planten or Planter and Magnet, Lady Leith, Margaret, Bright Planet, trading to and from New Zealand. He arrived finally in NZ from Sydney in 1840 on the Catherine Johnston with his partner Thomas Ballardie Taylor b 1816 in Anstruther, Fifeshire, Scotland (and a young boy in some stories).
William Hogg Watt Died 7th March 1893 in Wanganui, New Zealand.
He married in 1846 nFrances Margaret Day born 1830, in Maidstone, Kent, England.
She died 12th November 1912 in Wanganui, New Zealand.
She arrived with her family in New Zealand in 1840 on the Martha Ridgeway to Wellington for three years then moved to Wanganui.
They had 9 children
John Paton Watt b 20th April 1847 in Wanganui Margaret Watt born 8 th July 1849 in Wanganui William George Watt 26th May 1851 in Wanganui Grace Marion Watt b 18th March 1853 in Wanganui Thomas Taylor Watt b 16th May 1855 in Wanganui Maria Craig Watt born 1857 in Wanganui James Paton Watt b 18th June 1859 in Wanganui Richard Watt b 1861 in Wanganui Julia Ball Watt b 21st November 1864 in Wanganui William Hogg Watt's brother John Paton Watt b 1825 in Dundee Angus Scotland, a sea captain joined him in in late 1846 in Wanganui later farmer.
He might have come in the brigantine Scotia from Sydney to Wellington on the 28th July 1846 He married Margaret Donaldson who arrived in NZ in Wanganui abt 1850 They had Ann Paton Watt Jessie Duncan Watt Reah Watt Georgina Marion Watt b 1859 Wanganui NZ William Thomas Whitton Watt b 1857 in Wanganui" LIBU. William (Captain) Hogg Watt immigrated to arrived Russell from Sydney on the Catherine Johnstone in 1840 JGOC has 1840 previously had Planter.
4,1 He was a Captain of the Magnet in 1840.
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