Editing Chris Watson (section)

===Childhood and move to Australia===
Watson attended the state school in [[Oamaru]], [[North Otago]], [[New Zealand]] until ten years of age when he left to become a [[rail nipper]]. Then after a period of helping on the family farm, at thirteen years of age he was apprenticed as a [[Compositor (typesetting)|compositor]] at ''The North Otago Times'', a newspaper run by prominent reformist politician [[William Steward (New Zealand politician)|William Steward]], with the public affairs exposure augmenting his minor formal schooling. Following the death of his mother and the loss of his job, he migrated to [[Sydney]] in 1886 at nineteen years of age. He worked for a month as a stablehand at [[Government House, Sydney|Government House]], then found employment as a compositor for a number of newspapers including ''[[Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]'', ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'' and ''[[The Australian Star]]''. Through this proximity to newspapers, books and writers he furthered his education and developed an interest in politics and became active in the printing union. He married [[Ada Watson|Ada Jane Low]], a British-born Sydney seamstress, at the [[Unitarianism|Unitarian Church]] on Liverpool Street in Sydney on 27 November 1889.<ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last= Nairn |first= Bede |year= 1990 |id= A120450b |title= Watson, John Christian (1867–1941)  | access-date =9 February 2010 }}</ref><ref name=treasury>{{cite web |url=https://archive.treasury.gov.au/documents/1304/HTML/docshell.asp?URL=06_Chris_Watson_second_treasurer.asp |title=Chris Watson: Australia's second Treasurer – Australian Treasury |publisher=Archive.treasury.gov.au |access-date=30 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422021729/https://archive.treasury.gov.au/documents/1304/HTML/docshell.asp?URL=06_Chris_Watson_second_treasurer.asp |archive-date=22 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=apmey>{{cite web | title =Chris Watson, Early years | publisher =[[National Archives of Australia]] | work =Australia's Prime Ministers | url =http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/before-office.aspx#section1 | access-date =9 February 2010 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20090929094444/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/before-office.aspx#section1 | archive-date =29 September 2009 | url-status =dead }}</ref><ref name=apmaw>{{cite web
  | title =Chris Watson, Ada Watson
  | publisher =[[National Archives of Australia]]
  | work =Australia's Prime Ministers
  | url =http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/spouse.aspx
  | access-date =9 February 2010
  | archive-date =6 June 2010
  | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100606172129/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/watson/spouse.aspx
  | url-status =dead
  }}</ref>