464 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. DEC. 10,1921. KELSON'S SIGNAL AND THE MAN WHO HOISTED IT. (See ante, pp. 301, 356.) SINCE the account of John Roome appeared in ' N. & Q.' the following additional in- formation has been found, which seems to establish the above spelling of his name to be the correct one, i(fBut as MR. PONDER stated that it should be Roon (by which name he was apparently known only to his medical officer in Green- wich Hospital), it seems strange that Roome should have entered there, under another false name, after owning to having done so on first entering the Victory as John Rome, when However, according to the Greenwich Hospital Register 69, the time of his ad- mission to the hospital was July 3, 1847, 76 ; height 5ft. 4in. ; was wounded in the right side in the Victory ; his wife's name was Susan [but then dead] ; and he was born in Lambeth, Surrey, by which last statement he gave the Admiralty an opportunity of ascertaining his real name, had they had reason to doubt his word. Although Dr. Newman Chevers did not mention that an earlier application had been made for the relief of his protege prior to 1847, it will be seen by the first of the two subjoined certificates that such had been the case, but it was refused in 1843. H.M. Ship Victory, June 22nd, 47. he also gave Battersea as his birthplace. - Greenwich Hospital. Register 25. My dear Sir, I rejoice to tell you I have succeeded for poor John Roome, send him to the Admiralty, and let him report himself to Lord John Hay and it is done. I remain, my dear Sir, yours in haste, Newman Chevers, Esq., M.D., &c. JOHN PASCO. Character Ship Age at Time of Entry Entry Quality Discharge Cause Time Y. M. | W. D. As John Roome Victory r21 7 May, 1803 Lm. 14 Jan. 06 ' As John Rome Fame 15 Jan. 06 Ord. 6 July 08 Run Strenuous Not found Clorinde Owen Glend ower > borne in He cate
Hecate Do. 5 Sept. 1813 A.B. 15 Dec. 1814 1 3 2 4 Do. m 16 Dec. 1814 Lm. 31 Dec. 1814 2 2 Relief refused J. M. B. 22 July 43 Do. 1 Jany. 1815 20 Nov. 1815 A.B. Ord. 19 Nov. 1815 29 Aug. 1816 Off 11 10 2 1 3 J. P. 2 / 12 3 3 Admiralty Office, 19 July 1843. These are to certify, that John Roome, als Rome (Candidate for Pensioner to Greenwich Hos- pital) is borne on the Books of Her Majesty's Ships above mentioned, the Age, Bounty paid, Time, Qualities, Discharge, and Cause thereof, as there expressed ; the above Ships being all those mentioned in his List. B. MOORE. This Certificate given on Admiralty Letter, dated 18 inst, No. 30. 20 July 43.
