Hi there
Just across the road from the the House of Corretion/Naval Prison/Goal is St Johns Sub Castro Church and churchyard, and it is here where many of the buildings inmates were finally buried.
As I spent about 3 years transcribing the burial registers, surveying the graveyard and then transcribing all of the 800 stones (all except 11 that were unreadable) it is interesting to note that it does show the changing face of the buildings inhabitants:-
In July 1802 we get the first reference to the 'House of Correction'
then in the following 45 years we get lots of references to men, women and children of all ages from the 'House of Correction' including 'Turnkeys' and 'The Master' till November 1849 when we have the last reference to 'House of Correction'
January 1852 sees the first reference to 'The Goal' or 'Lewes Goal' and then in December 1854 we have the first entry 'A Russian POW, The War Prison' - these entries go up to June 1856 after which the deceased are just labelled 'Convict Prison' or 'RN Prison' or even 'Naval Prison' right up to 1881
As mentioned previously a memorial was erected by the Emperor of Russia to 21 of those prisoners who died whilst in the Naval Prisoners - picture below.
Absolutely no reference to Invalid Prison - surely, someone must have died during that period? - yes they did; there are some 20 burials between 1857 and 1860 during the time when we belive it was an Invalid Prison - but they are all just labelled 'Convict Prison'
Chris in 1066
