Machell Watson-Munro (Watson)

Named Machell after the famous Captain Machell of Barnard Castle.

Mother died three weeks after giving birth.

Age 3 in 1881 census, ref: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X3N7-WJN

Educated privately at Glenalmond, Perthshire, Scotland.

Changed surname from WATSON to WATSON MUNRO by deed poll 22/7/1881, when father remarried.

Lived with step-mother, half brother and half sister in wealthy circumstances.

Achieved Electrical and Mechanical degree A.M.I.E.E. London 1900 (Watson-Munro).

Subjected to family pressures due to smoking and drink.

Served in Boer War, married in South Africa, then emigrated to New Zealand alone.

Lived near Dunedin (from about 1905?)

Remarried 7/4/1910.

Engineer (dam construction).

University lecturer (Christchurch).

Christchurch about 1913, Wanganui 1917-19, Guildford England 1919-21, Wellington 1921, Lower Hutt about 1924, 11th Ave, Tauranga about 1939, Lower Hutt 1942.

Tauranga Anglican Cemetery (cnr Grace Rd and 17th Ave), Plot Id B610, Block Section C, Row 9, Plot location 14.