Cholera Victims. Saltwood, Sandgate, Shorncliffe Kent.

[Farelf]

Where would those who died from Cholera in Saltwood, Sandgate, and Shorncliffe, Kent, be buried?

[hanes teulu]

Charles Victor Hammon, mine host at the Castle Hotel, Saltwood, died on Wednesday 30th August 1911 of cholera and heart failure. He was buried Monday 4th September at the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul where he was a sidesman. He was taken from his residence to the church on a wheeled bier.
The map shows the Castle Hotel and Church.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/103683863#zoom=4.7&lat=8216&lon=9576&layers=BT

What period are you interested in? Are you thinking of a particular epidemic eg. 1849? Is it about burial at night in mass graves and cholera burial grounds? 

[bearkat]

The Sandgate cholera outbreak in discussed here

https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/papers/cholera-and-typhoid-fever-in-kent

and

http://www.sandgate-kent.org.uk/sandgate-the-fight-against-cholera-1849/

I would think it most likely they were buried in a local churchyard. Cholera as a cause of death is sometimes mentioned in parish registers but that was up to the vicar.

There's not much in local newspapers.

[KGarrad]

On the Isle of Man, the cholera outbreak in 1832/3 resulted in burials being marked in the parish register with a "C" to indicate a cholera death.
A mass grave was opened at St George's in Douglas, now marked by a simple wooden cross.

[Farelf]

What period are you interested in? Are you thinking of a particular epidemic eg. 1849? Is it about burial at night in mass graves and cholera burial grounds?

The 1855 Epidemic. In particular, the outbreak at Shorncliffe Barracks. 41 people died in this outbreak. 
I have been told they were buried in what is now Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, but have no evidence.
 The connection to Saltwood is that some of the soldiers may have been based there. The connection with Sandgate is the epidemic may have spread from there up to the barracks.

[bearkat]

In the 22nd December edition of The Folkestone Chronicle there is a letter written by the incumbent of Folkestone, Matthew Woodward dated 11th December 1855.

It says that between March 1854 and March 1855 the were 190 burials.

which includes the season in which Sandgate was visited by cholera, and many cut off by that disease were buried in the parish churchyard.

The newspaper article was about a new burial ground for Folkestone

[Farelf]

In the 22nd December edition of The Folkestone Chronicle there is a letter written by the incumbent of Folkestone, Matthew Woodward dated 11th December 1855.

It says that between March 1854 and March 1855 the were 190 burials.

which includes the season in which Sandgate was visited by cholera, and many cut off by that disease were buried in the parish churchyard.

The newspaper article was about a new burial ground for Folkestone

Thanks Bearkat, I think the cemetery they are referring to is the Cemetery on Cheriton Road. Now know as the "Old" Folkestone cemetery.

[bearkat]

The churchyard of St Mary and St Eanswythe, Folkestone, wasn't closed until 1857.

Cheriton Rd cemetery is called Folkestone Old Cemetery and was opened in February1857 although there was one burial in 1856. 
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Cheriton_Road_Cemetery


The burial registers for Folkestone Old Cemetery are searchable on Ancestry  https://www.rootschat.com/links/01tuu/