Hi Bob! Thanks for your help. I'm not sure whether she was in the destitute asylum or the lunatic asylum so will check further. with my appreciation Chris. On 22 September 2010 15:24:04 UTC+10, Bob May <tpibob44@bigpond.com> wrote: > 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 > > >