[2] Watson was encouraged to take up piping at the age of seven or eight as her parents hoped it would strengthen her lungs against tuberculosis after her aunt Margaret died of the disease.

[1][2] The procession, which celebrated "What women have done and can and will do",[4] took place in Edinburgh on 9 October 1909 and marched down Princes Street before gathering for a rally led by Emmeline Pankhurst at Waverley Market.

[1] Several weeks later when Christabel Pankhurst came to Edinburgh to attend a meeting in the King's Theatre, she presented Watson with a brooch depicting Boudica in her chariot.

6VT Edinburgh City Youth Cafe in association with the Scottish Government to mark the Centenary of Women's Suffrage Unveiled by.

"[7] Watson became the only female member of the Highland Pipers' Society at the age of 14, and won a number of piping awards.

In 1926 Watson moved to Trinity, Edinburgh with her parents,[3] and in 1945, at the end of World War II, she married John Somerville an electrical contractor.