----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob May" <tpibob44@bigpond.com> To: "Christine Cook" <chris@redcliffs.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-SAGEN] Adelaide Asylum > Chris > This is the destitute asylum that was situated behind what is now the > State and Mortlock libraries. Some of the buildings are still standing and > they do hold some records. I called in there when I was in Adelaide for a > funeral a month or so ago and they were very helpful. > They have a Migration museum there now. The is an entrance on Kintore > Avenue that runs back towards the Torrens No 82 > I have a business card from them for Christine Finnimore, Director > cfinnimore@history.sa.gov.au web www.history.sa.gov.au They checked to see > if they held any records from my query and got back to me in the next > weeks. Unfortunately they didn't have the records, they were in State > Archives out at ? Wingfield isn't that the location ? someone can you > confirm this location. I know its out Gepps Cross way. > bob > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christine Cook" <chris@redcliffs.net> > To: "AUS-SAGEN" <AUS-SAGEN@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 11:08 AM > Subject: [AUS-SAGEN] Adelaide Asylum > > >> Hi! >> I'm wondering if one of my ancestors was a resident in the Adelaide >> Asylum. >> Mrs. Jane Bound, as she was known, arrived in South Australia in >> September >> 1878 from Plymouth on SS "Oaklands" with her 9 children. She was a >> widow, >> the eldest of her children 19 and her youngest would have been about 10 >> months old. She and her children travelled out to where they had >> relatives >> near Riverton, Sth Aust. Sometime after 1883 she moved to Victoria where >> her eldest son had leased property. >>>From 1890's 3 of her sons, William, Edwin (Ned) and Abel had "bouts of >> insanity" and were committed to institutions in Victoria. In >> correspondence >> obtained from their files, it mentions that their mother had been >> admitted >> to the Adelaide Asylum and/or had been under restraint in England. >> >> I was wondering if it would be possible to access admissions between >> Sept. >> 1878 and about 1890 to ascertain if she, or any of her children, were >> admitted. Her full name was Amelia Jane Bound (nee Congdon) and she died >> of >> typoid fever in Nhill, Vic in 1893. >> >> I understand that some records are available for look-ups but I can not >> easily access them from country Victoria. Any help or advice would be >> appreciated. >> >> Cheers >> Chris C. >> Advertising on AUS-SAGEN is forbidden by Rootsweb Rules. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> AUS-SAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 4949 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message