OBITUARY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1934, 6 May 1880, Page 3

OBITUARY.

The “ Launceston Examiner,” in recording the death of an old Tasmcnian —the widow of the late Mr Bierelon Holla Watson, of Scottedale, Bays :—The deceased lady was the oldest daughter of Mr John Wade, the first sheriff of Tasmania, and was bom in Hobart Town in 1810. She lived therefore through the moat stirring periods of Tasmanian history, and from her father’s position was familiar with numerous stories of the many bushranging gangs that were terrors to the scattered population of the old days—stories of Brady’s, Mike Howe’s, and Boutley’s gangs. She married, in 1827, at an early age, her late husband, Mr B. R. Watson, then fresh from India, and lived with him just fifty years. Indeed their family were preparing to celebrate their golden wedding, when Mrs Watson was summoned to Victoria to the bedside of her dying husband. The ■hock of his death had a considerable effect upon her health ; and she, although naturally of a fine constitution, gradually succumbed in her seventy-first year. The deceased couple, who were well known in Pittwater and Scottsdale, were noted for f heir extreme hospitality and benevolence, even in hospitable Tasmania. In addition to their own large family they adopted many other children, some of whom they reared to manhood and womanhood. The deceased lady was the mother of fourteen children, twelve of whom survive her. Three of hep sons are clergymen—the Rev?. Canon Watson, Sale; J. M. Watson, Horsham, Victoria, and H. 0. M. Watson, Christchurch, New Zealand ; one, Mr O. M. Watson, the well-known cricketer, is a solicitor in Ballarat. The remainder are engaged in agricultural pursuits.