Edward Sheldrick b.1803
 

I think I may have had a breakthrough finding Edward Sheldrick in the 1851 census.

All the facts I have about him fit. The page is from the warburton lunatic asylum. While i have a free weekend on Ancestry what information can I post from there to get help to get further on this, have so far been unable to find a death for him.

Is that the Warburton asylum in Bethnal Green?

yes he is under the initials E S. He was a mariner and everything fits.

Is he E S, age 48, mariner, born Middlesex Bromley?

1851 census ancestry

Maybe he recovered well enough to go back to work and died at sea?

Or there are some possible deaths on the GRO index: Jul-Sep 1858 St Saviour, Apr-Jun 1860 Barnet, these too early for age to be on the index; also Jan-Mar 1877 Newmarket but age is 78 so a little bit out. Have you ruled these out?

yes that is him.

That was in reply to your first question. I have the 1858 and that is a little lad of 4. Don't have the Barnet one as yet. His wife is down as a widow in 1861.

His son Thomas b.1849 is my ancestor no other children recorded after him.

I guess I'm hoping there are records for the asylum maybe a discharge record. Or am I hoping in vain. Never had this particular instance before only workhouse and that led to nothing record wise.

I have to admit I was feeling a bit sceptical (more likely to have been at sea maybe?), but there are these two baps at Bromley:


Mary Sarah Sheldrick
Baptism 22 Jan 1797 St Mary, Bromley St Leonard, Middlesex Edward,
Mary,


James Thos Sheldrick
Baptism 13 May 1798 St Mary, Bromley St Leonard, Middlesex Edwd,
Mary,

Could perhaps be siblings of your Edward?