Hi Margaret, Are you aware of the following: http://www.communityguide.com.au/community.cfm?/lakemacquarie/site/communitygroups/heritageandhistory/morissethospitalhistoricalsociety/ It says there was a fire in the office & has further details on family history research. Apparently Hunter New England Mental Health has any records which survived. Such a sad story. I hope you are able to find something to help your search in the surviving records. Deb. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Bauer" <[email protected]> To: "Maitland & Hunter NEWSGROUP" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:25 AM Subject: [HV] Francis R Walmsley <snipped> > Does anyone know if Morisset has kept an archive of its inmates at all? <snipped>

Hi, My father told me that my uncle was at Morriset Psych Hospital for a period so I contacted the Dept of Health and they wrote back advising of a fire destroying most medical records, however they did have some index cards of patients that gave basic information. They sent me a copy of that index card, and it told me that he was there from 1937 to 1944, with dates of admission, the diagnosis, dates of visits by his parents, and his death. Whilst not comprehensive, it filled in many gaps of my knowledge about him. Cheers, Phil Young. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D Cook Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 1:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HV] Morriset Hospital records (Francis R Walmsley) Hi Margaret, Are you aware of the following: http://www.communityguide.com.au/community.cfm?/lakemacquarie/site/community groups/heritageandhistory/morissethospitalhistoricalsociety/ It says there was a fire in the office & has further details on family history research. Apparently Hunter New England Mental Health has any records which survived. Such a sad story. I hope you are able to find something to help your search in the surviving records. Deb. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret Bauer" <[email protected]> To: "Maitland & Hunter NEWSGROUP" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:25 AM Subject: [HV] Francis R Walmsley <snipped> > Does anyone know if Morisset has kept an archive of its inmates at all? <snipped> Quoting the entire text of a previous message in a reply is poor netiquette. Please don't do it. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message