I used to work at Cherry Knowle Hospital in the 1980's and we certainly had patients who had been sent there because they got pregnant. Most had been there for 40 or more years and were completely institutionalised and incapable of coping outside the hospital. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-DURHAM] Emigration / lunatic asylum definitions / AycliffeMunitions >A thank you and a couple more queries for the people on this really helpful > list! > > Thank you for the info on ports for emigration. It would make sense to > go > almost anywhere from Liverpool - rather than from the Tyne, and of course > I > had overlooked the advent of the railways! > > Looking at an admission to Morpeth Lunatic Asylum, in 1871, Elizabeth > Lavery was listed as 'lunatic'. In 1881 she was one of the few people > listed as > an 'idiot'. Can anyone enlighten me as to the difference? > > And - were young women confined to asylums if they had a child out of > wedlock - which I know to have been the case sometimes pre war? > > Staying with the war - my mother used to go every day by bus to > Aycliffe - > where I think there must have been a munitions factory. Does anyone > know > anything about this? Was she required to work there - leaving me at home > with grandpatrents? (my father was with the 8th Army ) > > Many thanks Ann Lavery