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