Edith Mabel Mackenzie

[SWH1]

Receipt and Indemnity by Miss Edith Mabel
MacKenzie in favour of Joseph Watson and
others (Mr and Mrs N. B. MacKenzie’s Marriage
Contract Trustees, for advance of £100 of capital
from the Marriage Contract Funds

Any know what that means??

[MonicaL]

That info, Alan, will be hard to find online for sure with data protection issues etc.

How so very sad to think that her WW1 experiences could be behind all of this for her in later years  Hard to say without being able to look at her medical notes etc. The impact from wars we know have a long lasting impact for too many... There may also have been issues before this for her, we simply don't know.

Some info here from many www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=519840.0

As essential as they are in communities, these places especially when looking at history look so miserable:

www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/medical/sunnydays/
www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/details/909323
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWIqhvPrB5U

Monica

[SWH1]

Indeed Monica, a couple of the women did come home suffering from breakdowns, understandable really.

[Br1gau]

Joseph Watson & others, Trustees for money set aside for the marriages of Mr & Mrs NB Mackenzie’s children, according to the terms of Mr & Mrs NB Mackenzie’s marriage contract, advanced Edith Mabel Mackenzie £100 from the capital for which she gave a receipt. I think 

I have had patient records from the Dundee Royal Asylum from Dundee University Archives before and found the service extremely sympathetic and helpful.  There is a 100 year period of closure on clinical records, but they may be able to disclose the dates of admissions/re-admissions.

There is an online enquiry form http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/form/

or otherwise telephone/write to http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb254-thb23

brigau

[MonicaL]

Br1gau, that is good advice on how to proceed.

Just supporting material. It certainly is Edith Mabel. Everything matches. The 'House Steward" reported her death. As we know from the other material, parents deceased by then.

Monica

[SWH1]

Fascinating, excellent effort from all of you.

Alan

[Br1gau]

Yes, fascinating but also very sad.  Interesting, Monica, that Edith Mabel's death cert shows her usual residence as Bank House. Surely her family had long gone by then?  Must have been the address on the hospital admission forms, I suppose.

Attaching two photos of the building, one fairly recent and the other 1950s-1960s showing the original garret windows before the roof was re modelled.