Smallpox

Very recently, on a Facebook forum relating to my home town of Greenock, a newspaper article was posted – it is attached here.  This article, dated Monday 4 April 1904, refers to a lady who died on Saturday 2 April, 1904 in Craigieknowes Hospital, Greenock.  Her cause of death was Smallpox and it said she had lived in East Crawford Street, Greenock. It would appear that that lady was my Great Grandmother, Janet Russell (Weir) Grott.  She was 38 years old when she died and left a husband and 8 children, the youngest of whom was just short of her 3rd birthday (my Grandmother).

4 Apr 1904 Janet Russell Weir Grott

 

 

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