Aberdeen housing 1850-1930 2?'s

LuAnn · Post by **LuAnn** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:21 pm

Many thanks Wendy, perhaps my grandmother's family rented from someone as by 1896 they were approaching thirteen children and I cannot imagine that they could afford to own, grandma always pleaded poverty so I could be wrong. Great grandma died at about 50 and no matter what her death cert. says Im sure it was exhaustion.

*Wendy* · Post by ***Wendy*** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:39 pm

Well they would definately of needed the whole house for 13 kids not just a few rooms LuAnn

Poor woman, 13 kids .. was she mad?

Maybe it was a house connected to her husbands job?

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:49 pm

My greats 1 & 2 lived at no. 17 Jasmine Terrace c. 1910

And at no. 22 and no. 5 Summer St ( Woodside) c1883-8

LuAnn · Post by **LuAnn** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:52 pm

Hi Wendy,
Perhaps the house was connected with his work, although I cannot say for sure I am only just starting on this branch of the family. On a birth registration from 1896 with the Granton address he lists his occupation as wood sawyer. I suspect great grandma couldnt find enough to keep her away from home or couldnt out run him

Although I guess I should be glad as my grandma was the 13th and we wouldnt be here otherwise

LuAnn

*Wendy* · Post by ***Wendy*** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:27 pm

Hi Tracey .. well i never! all these people are popping up from Jasmine Terrace

I know Woodside too .. that used to be 'Old Machar' in days of old but changed it's name to Woodside in 1880 (i think). My old GP surgery was up that way too

. Woodside hasn't changed much over the years.

LuAnn .. wondered if your great grandma just didnt want to be outrun

aww bless her .. she must of had a pretty hard life. A wood sawyer? hmmm he maybe worked down near the beach area .. that's not far from where they lived in Granton.

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:37 pm

Hi Wendy

At this rate between all of us, we may be able to vouch for every house in the street

*Wendy* · Post by ***Wendy*** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:05 pm

At this rate between all of us, we may be able to vouch for every house in the street

hehehee Tracey

LuAnn · Post by **LuAnn** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:10 pm

Wendy,
cannot imagine raising 13 children on one meager salary. I suppose that great grandma was a terrific household manager. But Im sure there was a great deal of agonizing over bills and hospitalizations etc. If Im not mistaken there wasnt a national health plan at that time in Scotland was there? Being in Canada my knowledge of these things is rather limited I regret to say.

*Wendy* · Post by ***Wendy*** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:26 pm

LuAnn your right, the National Health Service (NHS) didnt come about till 1948.
Up until then, the poor often went without medical treatment, relying instead on dubious and sometimes dangerous home remedies or on the charity of doctors who gave their services free to their poorest patients.

Every year, thousands died of infectious diseases like pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and polio.
Infant mortality - deaths of children before their first birthday, was around one in 20 and there was little the healthcare system of the day could do to improve matters.

These families that had loads of children were lucky to see all of them live to a ripe old age. So your great grandma did well with her brood .. but it must have been a huge worry wondering how they would manage.

Post by **emanday** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:22 pm

Wendy,

It was indeed 1948, just a few months after I nearly died at three months old of pheumonia.

Were it not for the generosity of neighbours, my parents wouldn't have been able to get me the penicillin that saved me.