Sheila and all, I recently received a 1906 death cert for my 2X great grandfather's brother, Thomas Fox. I was so excited that it gave me his father's name, and his mother's maiden name that I didn't immediately notice a little corner box with "special information." That info was about Blackwell's Island. It says "Hospital Blackwell's Island one week." It gives his residence at death as my 2X ggf's widow's home, and says he also died of pulmonary TB. I was wondering if he was sent to the island because he had TB - but if he was, only for a week? He is buried in one of the communal family plots at Holy Cross. I'll check the resources you sent. Judi I found a brother of my great grandmother who was the unidentifiied man in the grave with the rest of her family. I found that he came to New York in the 1830s. He was admitted to Bellevue Hospital 1847 with "sickness" and was transferred to Blackwell's Almshouse, dying there in 1859 of what was described in the records as "sickness." His death certificate indicated that he died of pulmonary TB.