Category Archives: Scotland

Remembering Flora McDonald Fender

Yesterday I visited Monzie Parish Church, which was open to the public as part of Perth and Kinross’ Doors Open Day. Flora McDonald Fender is interred in the churchyard along with her parents and niece. Her brother Thomas Junior who fell in France in December 1915 is commemorated in the church. I made another videoContinue reading “Remembering Flora McDonald Fender”

Remembering Christina Goldie (nee Neilson)

Christina succumbed the Spanish influenza and pneumonia on the the 6th of March 1919 in Stirling Royal Infirmary aged 29 years. Her widower David was present when she died and registered her death. She is interred in Stirling Ballengeich Cemetery in a familial layer with her father Andrew who predeceased her (also dying young agedContinue reading “Remembering Christina Goldie (nee Neilson)”

Remembering Helen Morrison Nicholson – Old Town Cemetery, Stirling

Helen (nee Wylie) lies in Old Town Cemetery, very close to the tower of the Church of the Holy Rude. Her grave is among the first you encounter should you enter the cemetery next to the church’s main entrance, and former Cowan Hospital. She shared her resting place with, what I believe to be herContinue reading “Remembering Helen Morrison Nicholson – Old Town Cemetery, Stirling”

Remembering Mary Wilson and Janet Marshall Dennistoun – Camelon

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.Continue reading “Remembering Mary Wilson and Janet Marshall Dennistoun – Camelon”

Remembering Alexander and David Buchanan – Camelon

Today I paid another visit to Camelon Cemetery, Falkirk. Dating from the 1870s, the oldest parts of the cemetery contain and impressive variety of headstones, typical of the late Victorian and early 20th Century. It was during today’s visit I learned of brothers Alexander and David Buchanan. Influenza is recorded on both their death registrations.Continue reading “Remembering Alexander and David Buchanan – Camelon”

Remembering the Campbell Sisters – Camelon

Margaret (Peggy), Elizabeth, and Mary Campbell rest in Camelon Cemetery outside Falkirk. All succumbed to complications caused by Spanish influenza within the space of a fortnight, aged twenty-six, sixteen, and twenty-one consecutively. Their father William was employed as the keeper of ‘Lock 6’ (likely of the Forth and Clyde Canal). As holder of this position,Continue reading “Remembering the Campbell Sisters – Camelon”