Hi Barbara Thank you for your reply. I will certainly try to perit by contacting the Surrey History Centre. Paula ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Mallyon" <BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk> To: <berkshire@rootsweb.com>; "berks mailing list" <BERKSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [BRK] Fw: Brookwood > Hi Paula, > > Brookwood Hospital, Knaphill, Surrey was always for the mentally ill, > an asylum, it close in 1994. > > Go into GOOGLE and enter Brookwood Hospital Surrey, there is a good > write-up about it, also a picture. > > I would think that if Sarah Ann died in Brookwood Hospital, that she > would have been an inmate, perhaps is she did needle work, to occupy > her mind, something she had previously done when she was well. > > Any records for the hospital, would possibly now be at the Surrey > History Centre, Woking, Surrey. > > Surrey History Centre > 130 Goldsworth Road > Woking, GU21 6ND, United Kingdom > 01483 518 737 > www.surreycc.gov.uk > > Kind regards > > Barbara Lewis Mallyon > Basingstoke, Hants. UK > BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paula" <p.ath@virgin.net> > To: "berks mailing list" <BERKSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:36 PM > Subject: [BRK] Fw: Brookwood> >> >> Does anyone know if Brookwood asylum was also a normal hospital ? >> I have a SARAH Anne NETHERCLIFT who died there in 1871. Her >> occupation is down as a needlewoman. Do you think this means she >> was just working there as a needlewoman or she was an "inmate" ? >> Are there any records of who was there? >> Paula > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2679 - Release Date: > 02/10/10 07:40:00 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2679 - Release Date: 02/10/10 07:40:00