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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Stirlingshire => Topic started by: harrow on Saturday 26 February 11 22:37 GMT (UK)
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Written in my grandmother's diary, 'Mary Barclay, 1878 died fever hospital Stirling of typhoid aged 27yrs'. Cannot find any record of her death or the hospital. Can anyone help please?
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Hello Roots chatter,
Sorry I can't help with your person but as far as I know the fever hospital was actually in
Bannockburn, now Bannockburn Hospital, on way to Plean.
Good luck. People on this site are very helpful and some very experienced.
Mary
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Hi and welcome to Rootschat
I wonder if it should be read as Mary Barclay born 1878 died aged 27
There is one Mary Barclay death in Stirling in 1906 and she was born 1878
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Thanks, will check that out.
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Amazing-my first post and I get a reply that leads me straight to the person I was looking for, Thank you so much!
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Hi
We aim to please! Glad it worked out
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(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee209/38fergie/Roots%20Chat/BannockburnHospital.jpg)
Photo having just passed the hospital on the road from Plean to Bannockburn.
It hasn't been a fever hospital for a very long time. over at least the past 40 to 50 years it has cared mainly for the very elderly and elderly/terminally ill.
It's due to be bemolished in the very near future.
Cheers.
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Did you go out and take the photograph or already have it? Either way thank you so much. Wish I had found this site years ago, people are so helpful!
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There was an earlier Fever Hospital than the one at Bannockburn, it was at Kildean, to the west of the town. Kildean was built in the very early 1900s and the buildings are still there.
There would have been a Fever Hospital before Kildean but I don't know where.
Perhaps the Stiling Local History Society could help. They will have a web site.
Cheers.
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Yes I found that one, thanks. On the register of death it also mentioned the 'hydropathic' at Dumblane. If this is now known as the Dunblane Hydro Hotel I actually stayed there on a visit to Scotland.
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I don't think Dunblane Hydro Hotel and the Spa were one and the same place although I stand to be corrected!!
From what I'm led to believe, the Spa was in Bridge of Allan.
Anne
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Brilliant photos, thank you very much
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Would the Stirling fever hospital have housed those with scarlet fever? Kathy
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Yes,
I was a child-patient in Bannockburn Fever Hospital with Scarlet Fever in Autumn 1946 ! Took ages to recover ... bedridden for about 8 weeks, and had to learn to walk again Och !... but I did manage to walk [sorta!] and get my present from Santa though :-)
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Awwww!
You poor wee soul! :)
Anne
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Ay .... A peer wee sowl I wis Anne.
Het Kaolin poltices chynged fower times a day and I didna see ma mammy or ma daddy 'cept threw an oot-ben windae ilk Sunday fur ow'r twa months ...
Aathegither noo ! Aaaaagh ! ..... fur the wee laddie o' ainly sax an a hauf years.
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Good grief. Did you come across Mary McMaster or Stasia McMaster in your time there?
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Hi Kathy,
There were only other wee boys in the ward I was in, so I don't know. There was probably a ladies'/girls' ward nearby ... but I could barely walk even when I left the hospital in January.
We with Scarlet Fever were on the left wing looking down over Bannockburn, while on the right wing were the diptheria patients.
No penicillin for us then ... just isolation and nature's and nurses' care ... casualities from the war had priority claim on penicillin.
Aye grateful that I survived ... but I nearly didn't make it !
John
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I am glad too, John - we certainly dont know how lucky we are nowadays. I know my family were in there at some time or another, and my mother did survive!!
All the best, Kathy
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Thank you for the photos, they are beautiful. Is there any chance of a source for these? Bron
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Bron - I think I got the pictures (they're just photocopies) from Bridge of Allan Library.
I was originally researching why a number of army officers (who had served in the Indian Mutiny) all 'ended-up' in the district. Some were buried in Stirling and some in Dunblane and the common denominator appeared to be that they all had 'taken the waters' at the Spa.
You're welcome to take copies - just click on the small link below each picture and download them to your computer. I doubt very much if there's any copyright on them - I was never asked to sign anything or advised of any reproduction limits.
Anne