Mary Wilson Dennistoun (nee McIntyre) lies in Camelon Cemetery, Falkirk. The headstone was erected by her daughter. Mary succumbed to complications from influenza on the 3rd of November 1918 aged 33. Her death occurred during the second and most lethal wave of Spanish flu. She died at Laurel Bank in the nearby town of Bonnybridge. She was married to railway brakesman William.
Buried with her mother is her infant daughter Janet Marshall Dennistoun, who died a mere four days after her mother at the age of 13 months. Whooping cough and bronchitis were listed as the causes of her death, the former being one of the principal causes of child mortality in the early 20th Century.
For William, the grief at losing his wife and baby daughter so close together, must have been agonizing. The task of registered both deaths was undertaken by William’s brother Malcolm.
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