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*The [http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsor1999/csjb01.html Clewer Sisters] were Sisters from the Anglican Community of St John the Baptist from Clewer (near Windsor in England) who came to Calcutta in 1881. They were involved, at various times, with nursing at the Calcutta General Hospital, Medical College Hospital, and the Eden Hospital (a maternity hospital) and also with nurse training through the Calcutta Hospital Nurses Institution, which was based at the Lady Canning Home. Scroll to the end of this [http://anglicanhistory.org/england/ttcarter/life/05.html link] for brief details of their work in India.
*''All Saints Sisters of the Poor '' indicates this order was in India from 1878. <ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XNS_KBCil2AC&pg=PA15 page 15 footnote] ''All Saints Sisters of the Poor: an Anglican Sisterhood in the Nineteenth Century'' by Susan Mumm , (published 2001) Google Books</ref> All Saints Sisters were at the J.J. Hospital, Bombay from 1880 and at St George’s Hospital Bombay from 1885 until 1902 <ref> [''Western medicine and public health in colonial Bombay, 1845-1895'' by Mridula Ramanna 2002]</ref>
*The Wantage Sisters ([http://www.csmv.co.uk/WantageOverseas.htm Community of St Mary the Virgin],Wantage, Oxfordshire), an Anglican Order, were in [[Bombay]] and [[Poona]] from 1874.<ref>''A History of Christianity (Volume VI) the Great Century in Northern Africa and Asia 1800-1914''</ref> The abbreviation Sr C S M V was used.
