Box BER 68

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Account by a Sister of Mercy of the years 1939-1946 written into three London County Council exercise books.

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The file consists of a handwritten account of the foundation of a branch house at Chelsea in 1845 and its independence from Bermondsey in 1852.

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The file consists of a printed list of Mercy foundations made from 1831 to 1862. Printed by Keating & Co., London. Heavily annotated and additional foundation dates added in ink.

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The file consists of handwritten annals dating from the arrival of Sister M. Aloysius in Croydon on 03 March 1890 "as Sister Superior in place of Mother M. Winefred". The narrative ends in April 1892. Entries naming children as sick or recovering may refer to girls cared for in the industrial school or convent.

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The file consists of handwritten annals of life in the convent.

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The file consists of a handwritten list of convents founded from Bermondsey with month and year: Chelsea in 1845 to Minster-in-Thanet in 1909.

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The timeline uses material from the Bermondsey annals.

Scope and Contents The file consists of typed notes entitled "The Story of Bermondsey Foundation" and "Notes from the Bermondsey annals", for which the authors are unknown. Handwritten notes in five hands on the history of the Bermondsey community, and a more formal write-up on "Old Bermondsey Abbey", apparently being a copy of a walking tour of historic Bermondsey. Also included is a 1923 ink and watercolour map of "London Street, Dockhead, and adjacent streets 1813" by John Fletcher, taken from 'Londina...

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The file consists of diary logbooks containing financial and insurance information, special days, vocation days, holidays, pension numbers, retreats, appointments, transfers, daily, weekly and monthly events in the Bermondsey convent. With news articles pasted into some of the diaries. These diaries would have been the basis for the formal Bermondsey annals for the matching years. The file also contains typed extracts from the books from 1972 to 2007.

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Dated from the Sisters arrival at the hospital on 18 November 1856 to closure of the hospital for repairs, re-opening and subsequent closure due to management disagreements circa 1865.