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Re: Anyone researching the Watt and Steven families of Montrose/Forfar?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 04 April 14 08:03 BST (UK) »
Poor wee James.
And there was a Catharine too.
Wonder what Rush Fever was? I've never heard of that ???

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Re: Anyone researching the Watt and Steven families of Montrose/Forfar?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 04 April 14 21:27 BST (UK) »
Thanks ev - both entries make sense.

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Re: Anyone researching the Watt and Steven families of Montrose/Forfar?
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 05 April 14 23:06 BST (UK) »
looby: The doctor who identified yellow fever in the Philadelphia, USA epidemic of 1793 was a Dr. Benjamin Rush. As Dundee was a seaport and as immunology as we know it today did not exist, if a fatal virus arrived shortly after a ship docked from the USA, then "Rush Fever" might be a credible name in the early nineteenth century.

Just a guess, but I can't think of a better one.
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