Forum: Medical Occupations

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Joseph had a son called John Charles Gibb who founded the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle Upon Tyne I believe that Johns sister Emma Catherine Davey Gibb was my great great grandmother she married a railway station master called william reaveley. A bit of controversy was caused I am led to...

I have recently found a dentist in my tree in the 1830's and have been googling for hours. I am amazed at what our ancestors went through. Fillings were often mercury and many of our ancestors that died in asylums could have been suffering from mercury poisoning. Poor people were paid to...

Folks Can anyone tell me what nursing school this young lady may have graduated from by her uniform? She was born in Clapham in 1875 and I believe lived in Hampstead or thereabouts until her marriage in around 1908. Her photo is here: ...

I'm trying to trace a surgeon called David Hague. All I know of him so far is that his daughter Ann got married in Leamington in 1864 to Thomas Cuthbertson. Her wedding certificate simply gives her address as Leamington Priors, and I've had no luck finding the family in census records. I...

Not sure if this is a good place to post this, but it does deal with the medical profession. Today at the library I tried looking at the Medical Registers on An**y. What a chore !!! Anyone have any tips ? They seem to lack any way to be sure you are even on the correct alphabetical page....

I'm not sure I have the right forum really ,but can anyone tell me how I might find records of nurses in training about 1880-1887. I believe the hospital may have been St Thomas London. nancyt

can any one help with any information on doris she was born in east ham in 1922 she has a son and a daugher :confused:

Information sought on the occupation of midwife - the lady concerned was born in the Furness area of Lancashire in 1798, married in Liverpool in 1820 and there for the rest of her life. The 1841 census shows no occupation, in 1851 (when she was 53) she was a midwife. Has anyone found ways of...

Would anyone have any information of a Dr. Harcourt of the Chinese Medical Service late 1800s or early 1900s??? or even know what it is??? Ann