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- Jessie trained as a nurse in Glasgow and later did a certificate in...
In November 1918 she wrote to her brother, George, in South Africa from the Royal Naval Hospital in Granton.
Following an accident involving a car in which she sustained some head trauma, Jessie came to SA in 1934 more than ten years after her mother died. When Allie died in the 1918 Flu epidemic if fell to Jessie to look after her ailing mother.
She moved to Bizana where she eventually bought her own property.
Death notice gives her age as 89 years 8 months. Informant was William Girdwood, nephew.
"Aunt Jessie spent most of her adult life in Scotland, as a spinster, and worked in Glasgow as a 'masseuse' and 'naturo-path'. [A kind of early physiotherapist]. She was knocked down in a traffic accident in Glasgow some years before WWII and was badly injured. When she had recovered sufficiently to travel, Grandpa T suggested that she come out to SA to live with them and assist him as a nurse in his surgery. (Edith's father [Harry Thompson, her brother] coughed up the money for her fare and to help her settle in). Jessie lived at Claremont with Grandpa and Grannie T for a while. However, this arrangement did not work very well and she found a little cottage near the Bizana Hotel which comprised two interlinked rondavels and a lean-to kitchen. She was happy there, gave Grandpa assistance as and when necessary at the Surgery, but otherwise lived off her disability pension. She also did some part-time work as a masseuse [including working on me!], when people asked for her help. Whenever Grandpa or Gran
«b»Source: Ian Thompson. E-mail of 28 March 2007
«/b»I don't know much about A Jessie & Grannie T but Dad mentioned it in general terms [that they did not get on well] but didn't elaborate. Auntie Jess was very direct and expressed her opinions freely - very different to the Lundie gentleness. Underneath her apparently tough exterior she was kind & generous as we experienced in her in her later years - no doubt she mellowed a lot as we all do!. We regularly saw her in her home when we went thro to the Wildcoast and I can remember having tea with her and her boiling the kettle on the top of the Aga stove and she always had lovely homemade biscuits that she had made. She was obviously very bright and after Edinburgh… Bizana must have been very small - the back of the woods to say the least!!
Source:Rosalie Thompson. E-mail of 2008 Mar 26
Name:«tab»John F Thompson & «b»Jessie A Thompson«/b» & Mrs Margaret [ note William H has left home, William A died 1927]
Residence Year:«tab»«b»1930«/b»
Residence Place:«tab»Glasgow , Lanarkshire , Scotland
Parliamentary Division:«tab»Glasgow
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Source Citation: The Mitchell Library; Glasgow, Scotland
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1857-1962 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
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1877 - 1965 (88 years)
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