Category Archives: Stirling

On Tuesday the 23rd of July 1918 the Stirling Observer acknowledged A “Mrs A.G Graham” as “the first in Stirling to succumb to Spanish influenza”. Although the initials are different, I figured out that this is Katherine. According to the Glasgow Herald she died “suddenly” at her home 3 Gladstone Place on the 3rd ofContinue reading “Remembering Katherine Elsie Miller Graham”

Archibald rests in Stirling Old Town Cemetery. He is the first Spanish flu victim I have encountered whose headstone is an actual broken column. The headstone is cared for by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and is in excellent condition. Whereas the second wave of the Spanish flu pandemic between October and January was theContinue reading “Remembering Archibald (Archie) Jenkins”

The Stirling Old Town Cemetery has been a burial site for centuries. Soldiers, clergymen, even slavers rest here, overshadowed by the muscular tower of the Church of the Holy Rude, it’s walls peppered with dimples from cannon balls from the many conflicts it has survived. Spanish flu victims also rest in this cemetery. Margaret ClarkContinue reading “Remembering Margaret Clark and Jean McKinlay McAree”

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)”

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”