Matthew Willis
| Matthew Willis MD Edin. | |||||||
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| Born | 1828 | ||||||
| Died | 1871 | ||||||
| Residence | Aysgarth, Bedale, Yorkshire | ||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||
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Matthew was born in Aysgarth on 1st January 1828. His parents were Matthew Willis of Low Gill and Alice Simpson of Aysgarth who had married at Aysgarth on 24th December 1823. Matthew senior was a grocer and draper in the village.
When the 1851 census was taken, Matthew was lodging at 34 Clerk Street in Edinburgh, the home of James Anderson a journeyman printer. He was described as a medical student. (Today this address appears to be a kebab house – not perhaps the most fitting memorial for a medical man.)
It is not clear when Matthew took up his duties in Aysgarth. It is known that in July 1857 he certified the death from typhoid fever of 66-year-old agricultural labourer John Pearson of Aysgarth. If there are any genealogists who possess copies of death certificates dated earlier than this on which Dr Willis’s name appears, we should be interested to hear from you.
Dr Willis died at the age of 43 after contracting Tuberculosis.
He collapsed while out riding and was taken home to his bed. He never got up again.