Hi Charani There used to be hospital ships at Long reach there was 1 ship called the Castalia, from what I can see is as they were for smallpox sufferers then it maybe the C is for that ship http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?MAB-HospitalShips/MAB-HospitalShips.shtml this tells you about them Lynne Berntsson Sweden ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charani" <charani.b@googlemail.com> To: <KENT-ENG@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 5:55 PM Subject: [KENT-ENG] Hospital Ship and C > Whilst tracking down the death of my George LEWIS in Greenwich between > 1851 and 1861 I came across three others (apart from mine) all of whom > had their abode as "Hospital Ship" and a "C" against their names. > There were also several pages of others with the same abode with "C" > by their names. > > Would "Hospital Ship" suggest these men were sailors or would it have > been a vessel that was used as an isolation hospital if the "C" stood > for cholera? Was there a cholera outbreak between 1851 and 1854? > > My George wasn't one of the unfortunates. I'm just curious about the > other deaths. > > -- > Charani (UK) > OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM > Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM > http://wsom-opc.org.uk > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lynne Berntsson wrote: > Hi Charani > > There used to be hospital ships at Long reach there was 1 ship called > the Castalia, from what I can see is as they were for smallpox sufferers > then it maybe the C is for that ship > > http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?MAB-HospitalShips/MAB-HospitalShips.shtml > > this tells you about them Thank you for that. I wouldn't have thought to look on the Workhouses site for hospital ships! :)) It's a bit later than the entries I'd found but gives a very good picture. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk