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PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:35 pm    Post subject: Mrs Wier Reply with quote

I found Mrs Wier in “The Nursing Record & Hospital World” December 29th 1900 journal. The report is quite extensive, too long to post here but I will email a copy if you PM your email address. An extensive web search produced nothing so Mrs Wier is virtually “a needle in a haystack”. However I feel that she was possibly newsworthy at the time in Scotland so I list a few snippets here from the nursing report.

(1) No indication of her date of birth, forenames/s or maiden name,

(2) From the date of the report her death would have been 1899/1900.

(3) Described as a kindly Scotchwoman and daughter of a sea-captain and, as a child, travelled the world with him.

(4) She was a nurse for years attached to a British regiment and after more travelling she married and settled in Zululand. Within a year of her marriage her daughter died leaving a baby daughter.

(5) The farm where they lived was a village in Dundee, Natal near Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift where Mrs Wier tended the graves of the soldiers of the Zulu War. It was here that she buried her daughter.

As I say “a needle in a haystack” but grateful if anybody has any info.

Tony
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