Help with huge family archive purchased at auction

[Jennaya]

Could also try the State Library of Tasmania, or the national Library of Australia

[dooly]

Cheers great information & links .. i will try them out .. i have contacted the rotary club and they seem interested, especially about the world tour film, sent them the pictures and just waiting for a responce

[dooly]

Got a response from the UK rotary


Dear Emma

Thanks you for sending me the information received from Wayne Clynes.  As
far as I can see the information is about a past Rotary President from
Tasmania and as such would not be suitable for inclusion in the RIBI
Library.  I cannot see that Mr J B Watt referred to in the email was a
Rotary International President either so the information may not be of value
to Rotary International.  Most likely it could be of interest to Rotarians
in Tasmania, but unfortunately I do not have a contact and am not sure if
they have an archive.

The Rotary Global History Fellowship may be able to assist, its website is
http://www.historyfellowship.org/viewpage.php?page_id=1  and I suggest Mr
Clynes makes contact there.

Best regards

David
RIBI Honorary Archivist

[Countryquine]

What about contacting  the 'Orcadian', a weekly newspaper which is widely read in Orkney?  Or possibly the Press and Journal, which is widely read throughout the whole of North and North-east Scotland.   They both can be contacted via e-mail.  Watt is certainly a common name in the North-east of Scotland, though I don't know if it is so common on the Orkney islands.   I am sure there must be some family still around, and I know if it were my family I would be thrilled to get it.

There is also the Scottish Film Archive, which I think is part of the National Library - do a search on the internet and you will get them.

[dunvr]

I see at least one old envelope with stamps on it I'd be interested in it & any stamped or un stamped envelopes older than 1910 among the archive.

[Richard Knott]

BURGESS-WATT. John Burgess-Watt was born in
Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1891, and migrated to Australia as a
young man. He was baptised into Christ by Pastor H. C.
White in Hobart, Tasmania. For many years he was an elder
of the Hobart church, a member of the Tasmanian
Conference Executive Committee, and a prominent Hoban
photographer. He retired in New South Wales and passed
peacefully to rest at the Sydney Adventist Hospital on
Wednesday morning, March 28, 1979, aged eighty-eight
years. His wife, Margaret (née Eyre) predeceased him, but an
only daughter, June, mourns the loss of a loving father.
Words of hope and comfort were spoken at the Northern
Suburbs Crematorium on March 29 by Pastor G. Maywald
and the writer. E. I. Totenhofer.

More about his daughter June Burgess Watt:

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/june-burgess-watt-australian-studio-482023646
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Essexware-Leura-N-S-W-Australian-Studio-Pottery-Vase-/310754261161

BURGESS-WATT After a short illness, at Borders General Hospital, Melrose, on 22nd March, 2013, in her 96th year, Leslie June Burgess-Watt of Lennel Mount, Coldstream, formerly of Hobart, Tasmania and Avalon, Australia, cousin of Graham Watt. Funeral service at Borders Crematorium, Melrose, on Tuesday, 2nd April, at 11.00 am, to which all friends are respectfully invited.

It sounds as if that particular line may have died out, although Graham Watt may be interested. Perhaps the crematorium could put you in touch.

Richard

[groom]

Is her death the reason that these items were in a auction - a house clearance?

[jaybelnz]

I know this an old post, and you may well have resolved this by now, but there is a thread posted on the Ancestry Message Boards which refers to a book that someone has, The Watt Families of Orkney.  Might be worth while for you to look into if you still have the treasure!

Jeanne. 

[Finley 1]

Oh only just spotted this

If it had been my family - I would have easily paid the £100 or more for the wonderful items.

Hope it has found its place.

xin