Hexham Courant: John Stratton Brogdon COMPLETED

[barryd]

As a followup to a fantastic search I found Adele under her maiden name in 1925 in the deaths on ScotlandsPeople. Adele Constance Robson.

[joanbc53]

Hi Barry,

Thank you for that little bit of follow up information. It is interesting that you found it under her maiden name.

Joan

[joanbc53]

Hello to all those lovely people who have helped me,

Purely for interest, this is a photo of John Stratton Brogdon taken shortly before his death in April 1932 at the wedding of his brother Frank Loraine Brogdon.

Left - Right: Angus Brogdon, Frank Loraine Brogdon & John Stratton Brogdon with the Penman sisters.

[joanbc53]

Hi everyone,

The detail on Scottish Records is fantastic. This is a summary of what appears on the death certificate of Adèle:

Adèle Constance Brogdon aged 26, died 21 April 1925 at 2.00 pm. in the Nordrach-on-Dee Sanatorium, Banchory-Ternan, Kincardineshire. Cause of death: Pulmonary Tuberculosis (1 year, 1 month). Informant: J S Brogdon of Brougham Terrace, Hartlepool. It also names her father and mother.

I had a bit of trouble deciphering the handwriting but Genuki.org.uk helped with the Parish name. I then googled Sanatoriums in Banchory-Ternan and I found the Sanatorium in question. It seems it was a private sanatorium for Tuberculosis patients and closed in 1928 due to new treatments for the disease and the decline in numbers of patients suffering from the condition. Sadly Adèle did not survive.

Joan

[JenB]

How sad. Thanks for letting us know.

[joanbc53]

Hi everyone,

This is an update on John Stratton Brogdon.

I have just spent a very prodigious week in Haydon Bridge & Hexham. I visited St Andrew's Cemetery, Hexham and located the family grave where John Stratton Brogdon is buried alongside his wife and his parents. The manager of the cemetery was extremely helpful and as well as looking at the burial registers he also took me to the family grave. I also found a couple of other ancestors' graves.


Burial Register at Hexham Cemetery


Brogdon family grave

I then went to Hexham library where I found the article in the Hexham Courant dated 16 April 1932 that Jen had so kindly looked up for me. This proved to be a lengthy article detailing John Stratton's life and his funeral. I cannot believe how much information I have gleaned from one newspaper report. However I am very proud to say that John Stratton Brogdon was a very highly regarded young man, both professionally within medical circles and also in the local community. It was a very tragic loss of a young life but he died doing something he loved, climbing in the Lake District.

I want to say thank you again to everyone who has contributed to this research and to Jen for the lookup, and Davidft for pointing me in the right direction to find Dr. Brogdon's wife, Adèle.

Regards

Joan

[davidft]

So pleased you manage to tie up the loose ends.