Hello List Simon said: In the UK 1841 Census I have found that Catherine/Kitty was in Poplar Hospital, as a pensioner, and that in the 1851 Census she was in the East India Company Buildings, Poplar as a Pensioner East Indies Company. Can anyone tell me what the East India Company Buildings were? It obviously seems that they were for widows/widowers of the EIC but I might be wrong on that. Also, any idea when they were built and exactly where? The FIBIS Fibiwiki has a page "East India Company" http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=East_India_Company which has a link called "Poplar High Street [London]: The Church of St Matthias and the East India Company's Almshouses" Cheers Maureen (Sydney)