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BuddysMummy
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Grandfather George H Griffiths aged 98yrs
Hospital admissions
« on: Friday 18 July 08 12:31 BST (UK) »
The Great Ormond Street thread has got me thinking.

My father (Victor Horace Rands or Horace Victor Rands b.1923) was blinded at 5 years of age, then was able to have a corneal graft at about 11 or 13.

Would I be able to find which hospital and dates etc for this, do you think?

It's not a high priority but seeing the other site has set me thinking and sparked a little interest. So if anyone has any hints or tips, I would be grateful.

The family was probably still living in or near Hackney, London at that time.

I have tried searching but couldn't find anything I understood.
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Rands - Hackney. Bedfordshire.
Griffiths - Birkenhead. Queensland, Australia
Ollive/Olive - Cheshire. Birkenhead
Holt - ?Cheshire/Liverpool
Lacey - Mile End, London. Queensland, Australia
Sewell - Middx. Queensland, Australia
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LizzieW
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Re: Hospital admissions
« Reply #1 on: Friday 18 July 08 16:29 BST (UK) »
You could try writing to the hospitals in the Hackney area (not a clue which they would be I'm not from the London area).  The only problem is that as far as I know most records are destroyed about 20-30 years after the last entry.  At least that's what I was told about records in the Manchester area (relating to the mental hospitals, but I can't think general hospitals would be any different).

Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) -  Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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Re: Hospital admissions
« Reply #2 on: Friday 18 July 08 16:36 BST (UK) »
The most likely hospital would be Moorfields:

http://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/Aboutus


It was founded in 1805. History here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorfields_Eye_Hospital

My Mother, sister and niece have all been treated there.


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