Her date of death presumably abt 1891. The institution probably was: Orignally Middlewood hospital was known as South Yorkshire Asylum (1872-1890) It then became West Riding Asylum, Wadsley (1890-1930) apart from a couple of years from 1915 onwards when the hospital was evacuated by the military to be used as Wharncliffe War Hospital.From 1930 the hospital became Wadsley Mental hospital and remained so until 1939 when 2,200 patients were evacuated so that the hospital could once again be used as a war hospital. After the military had finished with it, the hospital again became Wadsley mental hospital until 1948 when it became Middlewood hospital. It is now a residential estate, and little is left of the old buildings. John Fisher > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 20:06:49 -0400 > From: "A&M Brown" <browns.home@sympatico.ca> > Subject: [SHEFF] HOLLAND-BALL > To: <eng-sheffield@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP730A2598688101D2CA9EAC85ED0@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > After years of searching for my great grandmother's death between 1885 and > 1889 I have found medical records from her son's death in 1915 in Canada > which indicate she died in an asylum in Yorkshire. It would seem the > family story was a cover-up. > A friend sent me a page from the 1891 census on which she appears as Mary > Ann Ball, widow, 41 years of age, lunatic, in an institution in Sheffield. > The name and dates fit exactly. But still no death matches on the Free > BMD. > My first question is; what institution? > My second question relates to the possibility that there was a cemetery > used for the asylum where records might still be available? > I would appreciate any help or suggestions as I try to locate her death. > > Her married name was Mary Ann Ball. She was born Mary Ann Holland in > Sheffield, September 19, 1849. She was living in Hunslet, Leeds, with > husband and children and the last record of her there was in 1883 on the > birth of a child. Her husband, James Ball, died there in 1889. The record > I located in Canada gives her death age at 42 (if it's reliable). Her > parents, Peter and Mary Holland were living in Sheffield - Ecclesall > Bierlow - at the time she would have been in an institution there. > > Thanks for any comments, > Alan > Canada