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Old Photograph Shop Aberfoyle Scotland
Old photograph of staff outside the William Watt General Merchant shop in Aberfoyle, Trossachs, Scotland. The earliest recording of the Watt surname in Scotland is of one Walter Wat who held land in Brechin in 1586. The personal name was first recorded as " Wat of Carnegy " in the Episcopal Register of Brechin in 1446. One David Watt, an early settler in the New World, was recorded as having ten acres of land in the parish of Christ Church, in the Barbadoes, in 1680. One of the most famous namebearers was James Watt, born 1769, died 1848, the engineer; he was a partner in Boulton and Watt, engineers in Birmingham, England, in 1794. In 1817 they fitted the " Caledonia " with engines, and steamed to Holland and up the Rhine, making her the first steamship to leave an English port; he also improved marine engines.
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