Fell from a window

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:40 am

Hi Andy

If she was in hospital it normally indicates which one and gives her usual residence.
The medical qualification of the Doctor signing the death record may help identify whether he was a GP or a hospital doctor. This one is a bit problematic as they changed the qualification depending on how broad their 'medical' training was. Many trained as physicians and left the surgical stuff to the anatomist and surgically trained folk (Once they realised that barbers were not very expert at identifying internal organs!)

Frances suggested a slow bleed into the brain and either a sub-Dural Haematoma or a sub-Arachnoid Haemorrhage would be likely to induce seizures before death intervened.

Russell

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:50 am

One 40 year old woman in my family tree had her death in 1919 described as:

Mental breakdown (1 month); Fall over window, done by herself (10 hours ill).

The RCE which followed gave:

Fall from window (suicide) 3am 18 August 1919.

All the best,

AndrewP

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:31 am

Hi all

I remember my mother cleaning the outside of the windows like that, sitting out with the window down. We were only 3 high in our tenement in the Faifley.

One day I decided to do the same, and my mother nearly burst a blood vessel or a dozen. I got a well skelped backside for my troubles, and after that I recall a man on a ladder would come and do the outside windows

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:43 am

H don't know if "Windae hingin," wiz a common thing in Edinburgh, but it wiz here.
As is mentioned in Jimmy Copeland's wee poem
(sorry tae gie yeese this wee weepie before yer breakfast)

http://www.portglasgow4u.co.uk/submitte ... riday.html

Ma ain grannie fell frae a windae in the 1950s. under somewhat suspicious circumstances
Davie

Post by **joette** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:42 am

Aw Stew what memories! I well remember we used to live in the top floor in Faifley.One of my Mum's fav games with us was chasing after us pretending to be a lion or a tiger,we would squeal with pretend fright.On one occasion my elder sister jumped up on my parents bed to escape the "tiger"Somehow she fell backwards&fell out the open window-somehow my Mum managed to grab her before she fell all the way!Her back has given her gypp ever since.
A neighbours child fell twice out of the her bedroom window.
My niece has had a miraculous recovery after falling out of a window(she was dreeping out of a room she & two friends had accidently become locked in)She is the only daughter of the sister who fell out of the window & was saved by my Mum.

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:59 am

Joette

We were on the top floor too, but only three levels high.

I actually didnt get too far in my quest, I had the chair up at the window, window open, and just starting to move to get out, when I was grabbed by the breeks

Then the well skelped backside

My next escapade was with a big long thick rope which my pal and me had tied to the rails on the balcony, we were spotted taking a dining chair through the kitchen to get a leg up to get over the rails, and that was as far as we got, it seems a neighbour may have spotted us tying the rope to the balcony and tossing the rope over

I wonder if it was the same neighbour who "spotted" us playing doctors with the wee lassies from the next close

I never saw the rope again after that day, and the plans we had for that rope, including mountain climbing. Oh well just as well or I might not be here to tell the story

The things wee boys get up too

Post by **joette** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:46 am

Stew I must have heard of your antics because that sounds like a"don't you ever try to do what those silly boys did"things my Mother warned me not to do.
We lived in Faifley Road right next to the Church & a two minute run from Faifley Primary.I think my poor Mum was relieved when we got a ground floor one with a huge garden in Quarryknowe St. We were three floors up too & I know that somebody Father fell & was killed trying to climb into the self-same balcony after being locked out!
I well remember the women "hanging out the windae" to wash it & also -at least in my Granny's case as she didn't do housework have a good gossip-which she did big time!
I have heard tell of "somebody" trapping a neighbour in the window & giving her a sherricking(?sp) about her goings on with the outraged neighbours husband.If you remember the windows had a wee side catch which enabled you to open them for air but not "up" enough to allow anybody to climb in or the weans to climb out.
So this poor woman was trapped in the window with the neighbour out in the street giving it laldy.