Crimean War (1853-1856)

Scope and Contents The file consists of a volume known as the 'Crimea Scrapbook' despite covering a range of topics (presumably because the scrapbook was started as a result of following news coverage of the Crimean War). It is an unbound scrapbook of newspaper articles with illustrations, maps and small pamphlets, mainly pasted onto card. The bundle starts with views of the Crimea; follows Sisters who nursed there to the end of their lives; includes local and international Mercy news, and news of Popes and...

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A digital print of the portrait of M. Gonzaga Barrie RSM wearing the cross of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem. Duplicated photographs of M. Anastasia Kelly RSM and M. Stanislaus Jones RSM wearing the Royal Red Cross as presented to them by Queen Victoria in 1896. The original photograph of M. Stanislaus Jones RSM was taken by Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, London. Courtesy of the Archives of the Union of the Sisters of Mercy UK.

Scope and Contents The file consists of a fragment of handwriting, possibly an excerpt from the annals, which details Miss Nightingale's efforts in the Crimea to save men from bad alcohol and sought to establish recreation rooms where soldiers and convalescents could spend time when off duty or allowed out. She also encouraged them to send money home. M Clare Moore RSM approached Bishop Grant who arranged the business and instructed them on procedure. As a result the War Office, under the auspices of Baron...

Scope and Contents The file consists of letters from Florence Nightingale to M. Clare Moore RSM, with some letters to M. Helen Ellis RSM, M. Aloysius, Gonzaga Barrie RSM, M. Thomas More RSM, M. Stanislaus Jones RSM and M. Benedict J. Meyer RSM, dated November 1855 to March 1899, have been encapsulated and bound into a volume. The volume also contains a few letters written by the Sisters of Mercy at Bermondsey by Mary Shore Smith and Mary Stanley. An envelope containing two pages (seemingly torn from a...

Scope and Contents The file consists of a number of letters came from Ireland written by: M.C. McNamara RSM, Limerick (1864); M. Agnes Forde (?) RSM, Dublin (1864); M. Magdalen de Pazzi RSM, Dublin (1868); from Belfast regarding the death of M. Gonzaga Barrie RSM (1873); M Evangelist Forde, Baggot Street, Dublin (1872 and 1887); M Malachy, Carysfort Park, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, regarding changes to the constitutions and customs (1920s); and two postcards from Carysfort, Blackrock, Co. Dublin saying letters and...

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Topics cover all the major and minor events in the life of the community, including one 1854 letter from the Crimea with a transcript, extending the laundry, the Hospital of St Elizabeth with five points for an agreement with the Sisters in their running it (1856-1857 and 1865), various foundations and schools. They are arranged chronologically. The letters often also contain Bishop Grant's response, on the reverse or in between the lines.

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Letters written to Sisters at Bermondsey and branch houses or foundations. One was written from Scutari to M. Aloysius in Bermondsey, dated 26 August 1855 (with a typed transcription). Another was written from Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh. One of the letters may have been sent to the Sisters at Brighton (addressed to "Grandchild"), so may rather belong with the Brighton collection.

Scope and Contents note The file is comprised of photographs of the sisters' graves in St. Oswald's, Old Swan, and in particular the memorial to M Elizabeth Butler RSM and M Winifred Spry RSM, who died in the Crimea, and M Magdalen Alcock who also nursed in the Crimea; a pen diagram of graves on the Isle of Man accompanied by photographs of the Sisters graves; a photograph of the grave of M Ignatius McQuoin who went out from Liverpool to Sydney, Australia, and a second of a tribute to her in a chapel; and a license...

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Reverend Mother would have kept individual files for all Sisters in the community, containing their personal details and certificates. The content of the two folders in the first file have been arranged alphabetically by surname and contain wills, examinations, birth and death certificates, baptism certificates, educational certificates, and any associated correspondence. Sisters' files which are more complete or are of particular note have been added as separate files.

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The file consists of the last will and testament of M Clare Moore RSM (Georgina) witnessed by M Gonzaga Barrie RSM (Georgiana), and M Stanislaus Jones RSM (Margaret) on 16 January 1860. All three Sisters went with Florence Nightingale to the Crimea War to nurse soldiers in the 1850's. The file also contains images of Mother Clare taken from postcards and a large painting of her which resides in Bermondsey heritage centre. The file also includes a large framed photograph of M Clare Moore.