Descendants of William SCOTT
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Death: Scotland Agnes Watson Byers, (nee Scott) aged 86, Ayr, Scotland.
Hugh was an aircraftsman, 2nd class in the Royal Air Force when he was married in 1942.
Death: Scotland 1967 Hugh Rae Byers, aged 55, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Jimmy and his wife Morna were both doctors practicing in the Alyth area.
William Watson Scott (Bill) was born in Blairbeth Rd, Rutherglen, Scotland on 9 January 1924 to Robert Scott and Jenny Scott (Watson).
William did his secondary schooling at the Glasgow Academy. When Bill was 16 he joined P & H Henderson & Co of Glasgow, serving as a cadet officer from October 1941 until September 1944 on the ships "Kanbe" and "Salween". He progressed to 3rd Officer on the "SS Empire Mauritius" in early 1945 with MacLay & McIntyre. He then moved to 2nd Officer on the "MV Empire Saturn" in 1946 with Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co. Bill operated in a number of war zones during the second world war and he had a number of stories about ships he left or missed catching which later sank. He was awarded the Atlantic Star, the Burma Star and the War Medal.
He then joined Anchor Line Limited of Glasgow serving on "TSS Cameronia, TMV Circassia, MV Tarantia and TMV Caledonia" through until late 1948.
Bill joined the Shaw Savill Line in 1949 through until 1954 in positions up to 2nd officer. He served on the ships; "SS Mataroa, SS Gothic, MV Dorig, SS Delphic, New Australia, Ceramic, SS Suevig, MV Taranaki, MV Coptic, Arawa and MV Cedric".
While on the "New Australia", on one of the voyages to Sydney, Bill proposed to Margaret Baxendell, who was an assistant purser on the same vessel. They married on 19 December 1953 in Wilmslow, England and he completed his last long voyage in May 1954. For the next year he acted as a relieving officer on short trips.
After his sea days he had a position with The Walter Kidde Company of Middlesex. From 1955 he was in their Marine Division designing and estimating smoke detecting and CO2 systems for ships' cargo spaces, CO2 flooding systems for engine rooms and accommodation alarm systems. He later was in charge of industrial sales of industrial fire extinguishing equipment.
In 1970 Bill answered an advertisement for a job with Fire Fighting Enterprises in Sydney. Margaret and Bill then moved from England to Australia on 1 August 1970 with Jane, Lucy and Helen, their three teenage or near teenage daughters. On migrating to Australia with his family he took the position with Fire Fighting Enterprises. In this company he took a leading role in the fire protection special hazards division and finally he managed the fabrication manufacturing facility at Ermington in Sydney.
In 1980 Bill and his wife Margaret moved to Thursday Island for five years. During this time Bill "skippered" the Diocese of Carpentaria's boat the "Yosepha Tauki" for the Australian Board of Missions. He became familiar with these northern Australian waters around the Torres Straight over the five years he was there.
On returning to Sydney he again took up a position with Fire Fighting Enterprises until retiring on 23 February 1990.
Bill was known by his grandchildren as "Noisy Grandad" because of his loud voice and even louder sneezes. He died of a heart attach on 1 December 1992.
