The ship Montmorency was a 668 ton wooden ship which, in 1880, was the first overseas vessel to reach the new colony (Queensland). "During the colonial period voyages to Queensland by sailing ship averaged 109 days...." (Source Rights of Passage, Emigration to Australia in the Nineteeth Century, Helen R. Woolcock, Tavistock Publication, Ltd, London, 1986, p. 53, 55)
On December 15th, 1915, at the residence of his son, Ferry Street, Maryborough, ......beloved father of John Alexander, William, Andrew and Hugh McWatters, aged 85 years and 6 months. "At Rest"