{"id":28,"date":"2008-02-05T04:02:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=28"},"modified":"2020-01-22T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T08:50:32","slug":"dr-john-fails-to-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2008\/02\/dr-john-fails-to-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr John fails to front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in a <a href=\"http:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=22\">previous post<\/a> that I needed to consult the medical directories for the UK. I have since browsed the State Library of Victoria microfiche for 1846 and 1848, and the GSV Library microfiche for 1847. Alas I was unable to find any reference to Dr John Van Cooten of Guernsey. It is possible that he was no longer in practice &#8211; the 1851 census occupation for him says that he was a physician no longer in practice. The 1846 directory was London only. The 1848 directory contained London and Provincial listings. It is likely that the list of of provincial practitioners didn&#8217;t cover the Channel Islands. I could find no reference at all to medical practitioners on Guernsey or Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.gg\/index.php\">Guille Alles Librar<\/a>y catalogue for Guernsey shows that they hold <a href=\"https:\/\/capitadiscovery.co.uk\/guernsey\/items\/86749?query=A+Guernsey+commercial+directory+for+1826+%3A+from+A+guide+to+theisland+of+Guernsey%2C+1826&amp;resultsUri=items%3Fquery%3DA%2BGuernsey%2Bcommercial%2Bdirectory%2Bfor%2B1826%2B%253A%2Bfrom%2BA%2Bguide%2Bto%2Btheisland%2Bof%2BGuernsey%252C%2B1826\">&#8220;A Guernsey commercial directory for 1826 : from A guide to theisland of Guernsey, 1826&#8221;<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/capitadiscovery.co.uk\/guernsey\/items\/93894?query=Guernsey+Commercial+Directory+for+1834&amp;resultsUri=items%3Fquery%3DGuernsey%2BCommercial%2BDirectory%2Bfor%2B1834\">&#8220;Guernsey Commercial Directory for 1834 \/ edited by J. Stevens Cox.&#8221;<\/a>. I&#8217;ll try to find if someone can consult these for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned in a previous post that I needed to consult the medical directories for the UK. I have since browsed the State Library of Victoria microfiche for 1846 and 1848, and the GSV Library microfiche for 1847. Alas I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2008\/02\/dr-john-fails-to-front\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanations","tag-van-cooten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}