In July 1879, Alexander George Burnett, the laird of Kemnay, issued a building lease for 99 years to Charles Watt and his wife Mrs Mary Downie or Watt, simply designated as 'residing at Kemnay'.  The annual rental for this building plot was to be £3.  At this time Charles Watt, aged 64 years, was retired and had formerly farmed at Braehead, Monymusk.  He had already taken out a building lease in 1875 and had built Norwood Cottage on St Bryde's Road.

Charles Watt appears to have been a man of substance for in 1881 he purchased Alma Cottage, on the left of Paradise Road, for £200 and also Eden Cottage across the road for a similar figure.  On the site acquired in 1879 he built what was for many years known as Victoria Cottage, the third house along Victoria Terrace from the school.  Most of these houses on the terrace were built as tenements, and Victoria was no different. According to the census of 1881 there were three families staying there amounting to eleven people and in 1891 there were sixteen people in four family units one of whom was a widow staying alone. By 1901 Ann Sim, the widow, now aged 70 years, whose occupation was listed as a knitter, was still staying there along with two other families numbering 13 people.

Charles Watt appears to have died around 1884 for in August of that year his widow and their daughter, Catherine, made out a mutual will in which each left her whole property and interests to the other.  Mrs Watt died early in 1904 as the will was registered in April of that year.  Catherine made no changes to the will following her mother's death and when she died on 26 March 1913 a considerable amount of work had to be done to settle her affairs.  There were four properties to dispose of; Norwood Cottage, Alma Cottage, Victoria Cottage and Eden Cottage.  We shall for the present concern ourselves only with Victoria Cottage. 

Catherine was an only child and so had no direct siblings.  Her father had two sisters, Ann and Margaret who both married and had children.  William Robertson was the eldest surviving son of Ann Watt or Robertson and lived in Quebec, Canada and his cousin once removed, Charles Alexander Wilson, only son of the late Charles Wilson who was the eldest son of the late Mrs Margaret Watt or Wilson lived in Edmonton Alberta.  William Robertson and Charles Alexander Wilson each had a half share in Victoria Cottage.  The property was sold to William Mitchell, farmer, North Bank, Forbes, Alford on 18 May 1915 for £200.  Catherine Watt had used the property as security for a loan she took out in 1907 and as there was still £200 outstanding of the loan, the proceeds of the sale of the property were used to pay off the loan.

William Mitchell's daughter Agnes Jane was gifted the property by her eldest brother William, of Saskatchewan Canada in 1948, and following her death in April 1960 it was sold to Charles Thain for £725 who then renounced the lease in 1962 and had it converted to a feu on which was paid a yearly feu duty.