Lunatic Asylum records - ancestry
The main database:
UK Lunacy Patients Admission Registers 1846-1912 Also: England and Wales Criminal Lunacy Warrant and Entry Books 1882-1898 England Criminal Lunatic Asylum Registers 1820-1843 (this one is a very small database.) Looking at the main database, ancestry's index includes a data item called "Institution Place" which seems to be a county name that they have deduced from the name of the asylum. This county name can be completely wrong, so I would recommend ignoring it! For instance, I found my relative Wm Bowskill listed at Fisherton, which it shows as "Institution Place - Ayrshire, Scotland" but it should surely be Fisherton House Asylum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, which accepted criminal lunatics before Broadmoor, according to Wiltshire Council's website. Very interesting for me as I have long been wondering where my relative was before he was placed at Broadmoor. (Speaking of Broadmoor, ancestry have relocated it to "Pembrokeshire, Wales"!!!) |
And Colney is almost certainly NOT in Norfolk.
Thanks for this, Kite as it has mopped up exact date of admission (and death) for several people. And confirmed that I had identified correctly the odd person from initials in the census. |
Thanks, Kite, off to look.
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* Sigh *
Still no sign of GG grandma, supposedly shut up in a lunatic asylum so her wicked hubby could get his hands on money she inherited. |
thanks KR
I've found a distant much-removed aunt, who was in Thorpe Lunatic Asylum 1861- 1892 when she died. BUT I discovered through these registers that she was in Colney Hatch for nearly a year. I assume she was sent back to Thorpe as she was born in Norfolk. |
I found four of mine who turned out to have only been in the asylum a matter of days before they died (much less time than I'd imagined). One other turned out to have been incarcerated for 25+ years :(
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Particularly pleased to find another Dunt, who was in asylums 1882 to her death in 1890, so I wouldn't have got that info from the censuses.
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I found my Berrywood two - very sad I wonder why they were there. Both women and died there in the 1890s.
I know there is a few more but having difficulty finding them. |
Would anyone mind having a look at the record for Ada Gash in Durham please?
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Jay
Ada Gash was admitted 27 Jan 1904 to Durham. Her date of discharge or death (it doesn't say which) was 19 Apr 1904. Admission number was 13369. |
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