British Cemetery and Cremation Records from Deceased Online

This week is International Nurses Day and to mark the occasion, this post looks at some of the military nurses we have found in the Deceased Online collections Florence Nightingale (middle) in 1886 with her graduating  class of nurses  from  St Thomas'  outside  Claydon House , Buckinghamshire Friday 12 May 2017 is International Nurses Day . This celebration of nurses' contributions to our society has been marked every year since 1965 by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) . In 1974 the Council agreed that the event should fall annually on 12 May - the birthday of the creator of formal modern nursing, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) . Nightingale rose to prominence during the Crimean War of 1854-6 when she ran the Barrack Hospital in Scutari (in modern Turkey ) . Although Nightingale is buried in the rural churchyard of St Margaret of Antioch in East Wellow, Hampshire , many of her contemporaries can be found in urban cemeteries, The only know...

Thank you to all who entered our latest book competition to win a copy of My Ancestor was a Woman at War (SOG, 2013). The winners will be announced on our Facebook page next week. The answers to the competition are:   (i) Who was known as 'the lady with the lamp'?   B Florence Nightingale (ii) Aethelflaed was the daughter of which famous English King? A Alfred the Great (iii) Women killed in the First World War are named on memorial screens in which cathedral? C York Minster. Mary Seacole (c.1805-1881) Florence Nightingale (who was born this week 1820, 12th May) features in the book as the founder of army nursing. Her innovative work in the Crimean War of 1854-56 led to the formalisation of nursing as a profession, but there were other women present in the region who took an alternative approach to tending the sick and wounded soldiers. One of the most well-known is Mary Seacole, who was obliged to arrange her own travel to the Crimea, where she op...

Following on from last week's post, I'm looking further into Deceased Online 's latest collection of burials. These military burials were digitized in partnership with The National Archives .  Two notable institutions in the collection are Haslar Royal Navy Cemetery and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Netley. Both Haslar and Netley (as it was more commonly known) were Britain's foremost military hospitals during the bloodiest years of war in the western hemisphere The Royal Hospital Haslar and Clayhill Royal Navy Cemetery, Gosport, Hampshire The Royal Hospital Haslar dates from 1753. For over two hundred and fifty years Haslar served as one of main hospitals caring for sailors and marines of the Royal Navy and merchant services. Patients came from ships as well as from naval and seamen institutions in nearby Portsmouth and Gosport. The hospital closed as the last official military hospital in 2007. The Haslar Cemetery closed in April 1859 but the neighbouring Cl...