Christian Watt

Christian Watt (24 February 1833 – 20 June 1923) was a Scottish fisherwoman and memoirist.

Early life Christian Watt was born in 1833 in Broadsea, in the fishertown of Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire. She was the seventh of eight children of her parents, fisherman James Watt (1787–1868) and Helen Noble (1788–1860), and their only daughter.

At the age of eight, Watt worked as a domestic servant, and in 1843 she became a maid to Lady Saltoun. In 1849 Watt began work as a domestic servant in London, arranged by the Duchess of Leeds. Five of her seven brothers died in the year 1854, and she travelled to the United States in 1856 to claim an inheritance from one of their estates; She died in 1923 at the age of ninety. An alternative edition was released in 1994, from the original manuscript owned by her granddaughter, Christian Sims. However, the style resembles that of other memoirs by less-educated writers, and the use of pencil accords with asylum patrons beint forbidden the use of pens. Moreover, if Watt did not write the memoir herself, it is agreed that what was written was informed by her reminiscences. a stage play, Precarious Living (1985), and a drama documentary series, Caorstaidh (Kirsty) (1994). There is a Christian Watt Drive in Fraserburgh.