Dear Lorraine If you have not checked the 1901 Census for the Chartham Asylum yet, you can do so through Ancestry.com at your local library. The lunatics were listed by initial only in alphabetical order of surname, eg W. E. P. for William Edwin Prior. He was not a patient in 1901. Their age and occupation was given but not their place of birth. In 1901 there were about 1200 staff and patients. They had their own cemetery that still exists though families could bury their relatives elsewhere if they wished as happened to about 6 Woodchurch patients. Woodchurch was part of the East Kent catchment area of the Asylum. The Asylum opened in the late 1870's and closed in the early 1990's. It is now a very nice housing development. Our daughter and son-in-law live there. Best wishes - Bob Chown Lorraine <lorraine@neillerner.com> wrote: Hi All, My maternal family originated from Woodchurch and I can trace some of them back to the early nineteenth century but I am really interested in my Grandmothers era from 1906 in Woodchurch. Her name was Annie Elizabeth Prior and she was born in the Gate House at Henghurst House - which I believe was demolished just before WW2 - as her father worked for the Schreiber family. Sadly her father died 5 months after Annie was born and her mother (Annie Elizabeth Prior nee Cackett) and brother William Edwin Prior and sister Winnifred Ethel Pryer had to leave residence. I know the children lived with their grandparents John & Ann Pryor (nee Burden) for a while as their mother had taken up with a traveller called William Patrick Baker but at some stage their mum came back and stole the children out of the grandparents garden and they ended up living in Tunbridge Wells (appx 1910). What I would like to know is can I get any info on Henghurst House & the Schriebers and why they left Woodchurch. Also my GGG uncle William Edwin Pryer/Pryor/Prior died in The Asylum, Chartham in 1924. I can find him on the 1991 census but not on the 1901 census and would like to know why and at what age he was sectioned. If anyone out there has any info on Prior/Pryer/Pryor/Baker/Burden/Schreiber/Cackett I would love to hear from you. many thanks Lorraine - waiting in anticipation!!!!!! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message