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Alexander Meldrum 1817 - 1858

Alexander Meldrum of Australia was born in 1817 to Norman Meldrum and Margaret Meldrum. He had siblings Jessie Meldrum, Elizabeth Meldrum, Elspeth Law Meldrum, William Meldrum, Isabella Meldrum, Catherine Meldrum, Mary Meldrum, and William Roy Meldrum. Alexander Meldrum married Elspeth Law Meldrum in 1837, and they were married until Alexander's death on December 13, 1858.

Alexander Meldrum

Australia

1817

December 13, 1858

Beechworth, Vic, Australia

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1817

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1858

Death

December 13, 1858

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Beechworth, Vic Australia
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Obituary

O&M Advertiser – Tuesday 14th December, 1858. CORONER'S INQUEST. An inquest was held yesterday at the Union Hotel, on the body of Alexander Meldrum, who died yesterday morning about half-past five o'clock, the cause of death appears to have been from the rupture of one of the veins on the inner part of the right leg. The deceased is an old resident of the district, and is well known and respected. Thomas McCarrick, of the Myrtle Creek, sworn, deposed: I slept in the Union Hotel last night, about twenty minutes to six o'clock this morning, there was an alarm given by a servant girl; my wife said to me, Thomas, get up, Meldrum is dead; I jumped out of the bed; went down stairs, went to the room behind the bar, where deceased was. I found him sitting on a chair. That about three minutes intervened before Dr. Crawford arrived; Dr. Crawford asked for scissors to cut a bandage from his leg, also gave a bottle to apply to his nose; done so without any effect; Dr. Crawford pronounced him dead and said he believed he was dead before he came; breathed twice after I came; never spoke or moved after I came; the bandage possibly covered the wound; did not see the wound until the bandage was cut; about four quarts of blood in the basin; there was blood on the floor as if a gush from the leg; about a quart of blood on the floor; deceased seemed in good health; have known deceased about five years; has had a bad leg for some time, ulcerated I believe; do not know if he was under medical treatment; the bandage seemed to have been on sometime; I think it had been an old bandage. Abby Leah, servant to the deceased, sworn, deposed; that Mrs. Meldrum called her out of bed about five o'clock; told me to go and get another basin, went and got a bucket in place of a basin, and left it by deceased; was about a minute from the time I got up to the time I saw the deceased; found deceased sitting on a chair with his head laid in the arms of Mrs. Meldrum; deceased was in the sitting parlour; his foot was in the basin, and the basin full of blood; the blood was thick; saw it flowing from the leg; could not say whether it was flowing quick or not; Mrs. Meldrum told me to go and call Mr. McCarrick, who was lodging in the house; could not say whether he was dead or alive when I just saw him; took him off the chair in presence of the doctor and gave a kind of gurgling sound; could hear Mrs. Meldrum easily from her room to mine; has heard that he had a bad leg for eleven years; the leg bled about a month ago; a basin of blood came from it then; Mrs. Meldrum stopped it with lint. L. Smith Law Meldrum, wife of the deceased, deposed; my husband got up about a quarter past five this morning, said he was a little sick; he went out of the bedroom door, and turned back and bade me get up; he said my dear I am gone; got up and he was standing at the bedroom door; his leg was bleeding; called the girl; she was out in a moment; deceased was in a chair before the girl came out; gave him a basin to put his foot in; the basin was full very soon; he tried to keep his finger on the wound, but was not able to keep it on; never spoke after he said my dear I am gone; he has had a sore leg for the last six years; it took to bleeding at that time; this is the fourth or fifth time; I always stopped it with cold water cloths; it bled about a month ago a little; I stopped it by putting on a cold water bandage; there was always a bandage on the leg; I poured a little cold water on it; he was away before I could do anything; did not put cold water cloths on because I was by myself, and he said he was very sick; told him to keep his finger on the wound until I fetched the water; I returned immediately, and he fell in my arms; the girl was standing beside me when he fell in my arms; my son Alexander went immediately for the doctor, before I first called the girl; it was now about a quarter of an hour from the time the vein burst before he was dead; did not receive any knock; the bleeding commenced spontaneously; Dr. Crawford attended the leg when it was bad. Alexander Meldrum, son of the deceased sworn, said that he was called by his mother this morning at five or half past; got up and went to her; my father was sitting in a chair; he was alive; he was breathing; his foot was in a basin, and a little blood in it; I then went for the doctor; was not above a minute in the room before I went for the doctor; my mother told me to go for the doctor; saw Dr. Crawford; he came in about five minutes; went a second time for the doctor. Dr. Crawford, sworn, stated that the son of the deceased came to his house about quarter before six this morning; left a message with my servant that I was to go up and see Mr. Meldrum, as he was very ill; I went up and found Mr. Meldrum seated in an arm chair supported by Mr. McCarrick; life was then extinct; had him laid upon the floor; cut a bandage on the leg and found an opening on the leg the size of a threepenny piece; it opened into the internal saphena vein. The varicose condition of the vein extended from the ankle up to the groin; the foot was in a basin which was nearly filled with blood; there was also a large quantity of blood on the floor; the opening into the vein seemed the result of ulceration; such an opening would produce sufficient hemorrhage to cause death; a patient might live for about four or five minutes after the bursting of the vein, the patient had an anemic appearance; the pupils were quite dilated; death ensued from haemorrhage from ruptures into the internal saphena vein; by placing the finger immediately upon the opening, it might have stopped the hemorrhage; there was a bandage on the leg which would prevent any person from stopping it; by placing the body in a horizontal position the flow would not have been so great, but it would not have closed without pressure. The Jury returned the following verdict: that Alexander Meldrum, deceased, came to his death by natural and unavoidable causes. We understand the funeral will take place this day, at three p.m.

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