Watt

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Thompson (1816–1903), the son of Alexander (c.1789–) and Elizabeth (Brown, c.1791–) Watt was born in Digby, Nova Scotia. Their ancestry was Scottish.

Thompson Watt came to Warwick Twp. in the 1850s, where he farmed Lot 10, Con. 5 NER. He married three times. He married Lovica Shepherd (1813–1856) in 1843. Their children were: Anne Melissa (1845–), Alexander (1846–), Josephine (1848–), James (1849–1927), Malcolm D. (1852–), and Lovica Matilda (1855–1935). Lovica married George Harper in 1872 in Arkona.

After Lovica died, Thompson married Margaret Ann Hess (c.1808–1877). Margaret had nine children from her first marriage so Thompson and Margaret had a combined family of sixteen children!

When Margaret died, Thompson married Jessie Fyfe (c.1831–1899). Jessie was born in Scotland. She came to Canada in 1878 to join her sister Mrs. McAusland at Arkona and married Thompson soon after her arrival. Thompson built a house on Main St. in Forest after they were married, and he and Jessie retired to this house. In 1899, at the age of 83, Thompson was a fence viewer for the Town of Forest. A fence viewer was a type of surveyor employed by the township or town, who would decide where a fence could be placed between two properties. Fence viewers worked in pairs.

Chapter 24 of 25 - Watt Family

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