The record gives us a few useful insights. First off, it tells us that Charles, the father of the last chief, had no surviving siblings who could have been heirs to the chiefship or who could have sired lines of potential heirs. It is also evident that both Charles and his father James must have been considered as nobility, as they both married the daughters of earls. Finally, we see that this particular family of Watsons had been the owners of these lands in Saughton for the previous three centuries. We do have a reference in contemporary literature [Ref. 2] to Charles Watson also being "chief of the name in Scotland" but no accompanying record officially recognising this has yet been discovered; we have been in correspondence with the office of the Lord Lyon but so far nothing has turned up. We are aware that other chiefs did not register their arms with the Lord Lyon, so it may be that either Charles falls under this category, his record is on file but yet to be digitised, or he was recognised as chief by other Watsons but never officialised his status with the Lord Lyon. It's a little frustrating, as if James was the first recognised chief it would suggest that he registered as such during the Highland mania that accompanied the build-up to the royal pageant in 1822; however, if we can demonstrate that his ancestors were also recognised a chiefs, this may well pre-date the romantacism of all things Highland that was especially prevalent amongst Edinburgh high society around the turn of the 19th century.