Help with informant's name

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:54 pm

Hi all
I'd never have got Brunner - didn't even know it was a surname!

Well done John! =D>

Best wishes
Lesley

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:05 pm

Hi Mary

Your question links into another recent thread .
When medical care had financial implications lots of times the Doctor was not called in. If the deceased person had a history of heart disease that the Doctor knew about he would attribute the death to the known condition if the evidence and circumstances led him to that conclusion. It was only where there was doubt or suspicion of another cause that an enquiry and possibly post mortem would be carried out.

Pinkshoes

Will you be sending Sporran a medal

A brilliant bit of digging.
I have vague memories of Durham Prison coming up on another thread ages ago

Maybe it was on another site

Why should someone else's successes make you feel good

Don't know but it does

Russell

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:10 pm

Aye, I think Sporran deserves a wee hauf oot the hipflask before it gets passed on to the Brunner weans!

Did I maybe mention Durham Prison in the Hipflask thread - only a few days ago, and I'm not suggesting your memory is less than great Russell (come to think of it I can't remember if I did mention it)

I've got a good feeling about this one - flask is not going back in the loft yet

Best wishes
Pinkshoes

Post by **emanday** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:21 pm

Right enough, Russell, when mum-in-law died it was our GP who came to the house. Being a visitor, and her own GP 200 miles away might have caused the problem.

Although she was receiving treatment for a few conditions, none were actually life threatening, so her passing was totally unexpected. Added to that, she was still dressed when found in the morning, even though she had gone to bed a couple of hours before us. She'd not complained of feeling unusually unwell, and we did tell the GP that.

Strangely, it was the funeral director who raised the matter, not our GP who didn't seem overly concerned. If anything, she was not a little miffed that he had, in her words "fussed unnecessarily".

Post by **AndrewP** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:58 pm

Russell wrote:The Edinburgh Crematorium is in Dick Place. but I can't find any evidence of a hospital having been there.
Several of the bigger houses which were once residences appear to be Nursing or Care Homes now.

There has never been a crematorium in Dick Place. They may have offices there (I take it you found that info at www.192.com - I am wary of that information). Edinburgh's three cematoria are: Seafield Crematorium, Seafield Road (opened 1928), Warriston Crematorium, Warriston Road (opened 1939) and Mortonhall Crematorium, Howdenhall Road (opened 1967) - none of them on the go at the time of this lady's death.

Dick Place is in the Grange area and is made up of substantial Victorian villas. On identifying number 14 on Edinburgh City Council's online Planning Portal, I compared their map to the Ordnance Survey maps of 1914 and 1932. On these maps, number 14 can be identified, but there is no name for that house marked on the map, so no clues as to whether it was used as a nursing home or similar, or if it was a private residence.

All the best,

AndrewP

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:20 am

Hi Andrew

I stand corrected its the cemetry off Kilgraston Road I was thinking of.

That's a posh part o the toon. They never let me go there in case I got ideas above my station! Now Leith Links - that was OK

Russell

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:31 am

Russell wrote:I stand corrected its the cemetry off Kilgraston Road I was thinking of.

That's a posh part o the toon. They never let me go there in case I got ideas above my station! Now Leith Links - that was OK

In Grange Cemetery, there are the graves of many of Edinburgh's merchants and academics - even the cemetery is posh. (In truth, I am sure there are plenty of working-class folk in there too).

All the best,

AndrewP

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:42 pm

Thanks for all that input guys. I've a feeling 14 Dick St would be a private address, and probably the home of Margaret the daughter. I've been in touch with someone who has Margaret and her husband Francis Brunner in their tree - still not a direct link to John Murrie of the hipflask, but getting there! Hopefully they will have had many, many children.

Thanks again.

Best wishes
Pinkshoes

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:43 pm

Hi Pinkshoes

Hopefully they will have had many, many children.

But how are you going to split the hip flask between them all?? Or is it a case of "first found living descendant" wins the prize?

Grief, I hope they at least buy you a drink when you find them! Imagine if you were to present them with a bill for all the time you have spent chasing them up - they would need a long draught from that flask themselves!!

Best wishes
Lesley

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:02 pm

Got it in one Lesley - first past the post

I have to confess the hipflask is paling into insignificance, I'm enjoying myself so much with this family - what an interesting crowd. Someone on the other thread wondered when I was going into print on the history of Stirling Fishing Club, but I think this family history might be worth writing up - if only as an example of "how the other half lives" maybe not being all it's cracked up to be

An acquaintance who's just had to sit through the whole saga has informed me I should get get out more and/or get a different hobby - bad enough, she thinks, researching your own family tree, let alone that of a "random" person

But, methinks I'm in guid company!

Best wishes
Pinkshoes