Hi Ann and listers First, please remove or clip extraneous material when replying to a post ESPECIALLY if you are replying to the Digest message. Patient records of Gladesville and other hospitals are held by NSW State Records (SR). They tend not to be digitised and online. SR have produced an "Archives in Brief" which contains all the relevant information - AIB 85 http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/archives-in-brief/archives-in-brief-85 After you have read all of that, go to the Agency detail which contains well researched information about the agency and its functions: Agency number: 65 Title: Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum (1838-68) / Gladesville Hospital for the Insane (1869-1914) / Gladesville Mental Hospital / Gladesville Hospital (1915-93) Start date: 19 Nov 1838 End date: 29 Jan 1993 Category: Psychiatric Hospital http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Agency\65 >From there you will see what records are held and how to access them. Make a note about which ones have an index or other finding guide.: http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Agency\65\Series\Creating To access the records you will need either to travel to the SR Reading Room or hire a professional researcher to do that for you. If the person was committed after some public incident, you may find some information in the Sydney Morning Herald or other newspapers. Regards On 27/02/2013, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: <clip> > > Does anyone know how to get any information from Gladesville Lunatic Asylum, > > I have information that my John was there in 1884c. > > Ann.