Hello Tezz, I have a Caroline Stranks (nee Carter), also a resident of Hardwick, who was admitted to the Bucks County Lunatic Asylum at Stone in June 1879. In 1853 she had married Richard Stranks, with whom she had 11 children, and was living at Hardwick with her family at the time of the 1861 and 71 censuses. She was a lace-maker in 1861. The records of Stone Lunatic Asylum give a lot of details about her; her "form of mental disorder" is described as "chronic mania". The first symptoms of insanity were said to have been observed about 1868, and the supposed cause was stated to be "sudden shock through one of her children being burned". From the list of symptoms, she seems to have been suffering from a number of delusions about herself and her family. She was said not to be suicidal, and "dangerous to others only by threats". She is shown at Stone Asylum in the 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses, and died there in April 1906. Caroline Stranks was the grandmother of Charles James Stranks, who became Archdeacon of Durham Cathedral, and who wrote the book "Country Boy" about his childhood in Hardwick and Weedon. It was written under the pseudonym "Richard Hillyer", and the names of the villages and residents are also changed, no doubt because of the way in which he criticised the characters and behaviour of some of the inhabitants he considered to have abused their power over the labouring classes (of which he was one). However, the "Copyright 1966 C. J. Stranks" and the dedication "To E.L.S." (his wife, Elsie Lilian Stranks, nee Buckley) rather give the game away! Rosemary Jenkins (North Yorks.)