Christian Holmes (1870-1934)
Road accident victim
Christian Holmes was the wife of Robert Dudgeon Masterton, insurance clerk. She was killed in a particularly nasty road accident involving a double fatality of pedestrians in Edinburgh in 1934.
Genealogy
Christian Holmes was the daughter of Thomas Holmes and married Robert Dudgeon Masterton in 1910. Robert Masterton belongs to the group of Mastertons that flourished in the Biggar area. Fuller details of their extended family can be found at this link.
TWO women were knocked down and killed by a motor car at the junction of Belford Road and Queensferry Road, Edinburgh, last night. They were:-
Mrs Christian Holmes or Masterton (60), 5 Belford Avenue, Edinburgh; and
Mrs Moffat, Donaldson's Lodge, Cornhill, Northumberland.
The fatality occurred about a quarter past seven as the women were in the act of crossing Queensferry Road. The motor car was proceeding towards the city. The driver slowed down when he observed the women, but the car, due to the damp surface of the road, developed a skid, and ran over the women, who were terribly injured.
Aid was summoned, and the women were removed in the police ambulance to the Royal Infirmary, but on their arrival there it was found that both were dead.
It was late at night before the women were identified. One of them had in her possession tickets for a performance in one of the Edinburgh theatres, and it is surmised that the women were making their way to the theatre when the accident happened.
After running down the women the car, continuing its skid, mounted the pavement on the north side of Queensferry Road, and struck against a wall, dislodging a considerable quantity of masonry.
The Scotsman
31st October, 1934
MASTERTON - At Edinburgh, suddenly, on 29th October, result of an accident, CHRISTIAN, daughter of the late Thomas Holmes, and beloved wife of R. D. MASTERTON, 5 Belford Avenue. Funeral to Comely Bank Cemetery on Thursday, 1st November, at 2.30 P.M. Friends desiring to attend please meet cortege at cemetery gate.
The Scotsman
31st October, 1934