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#3301, James Watt (GIBSON) GIBSON-WATT

Born 1831 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 1891 in Brighton, Sussex
Father James GIBSON (1793 - 1835)
Mother Agnes MILLER (1794 - 1852)

Lived in Radnor, Wales.

James Gibson-Watt and his wife Emma Hoey had a son and three daughters.

Born James Watt Gibson. He inherited all the great James Watt inventor's estate and possessions, including a great mass of scientific papers and experimental apparatus and as a result of a wish expressed in his will by his great uncle James the younger, asssumed the additional surname of Watt by Royal Licence 1856. Family came from Ayrshire. Lived in Radnor, Wales.

Timeline

Born

Death of Father, James GIBSON

Death of Mother, Agnes MILLER

Married Emma Henrietta HOEY in Westminster, London

Birth of Son, James Miller GIBSON-WATT

Died 1891