Hi Dave, It seems very possible that Charles was removed to his original parish as, according to http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22760, the Bethnal Green asylum's inmates were paid for by their parish. If Brighton parish were aware of this I would think that they would have sent him there. You need to search the Brighton poor law removals which unfortunately I don't think are searchable online - unless anyone else knows where to find them? This is also interesting http://studymore.org.uk/3_06.htm as it mentions Bethnal asylum quite a lot. I haven't read through it in detail but it appears that the asylum regularly housed patients from outside the area. hth, Anne > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:13:07 +0100 > From: davemassie@btinternet.com > To: eng-surrey@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SRY] Death in Bethnal Green Asylum > > My ggg-grandfather Charles YORK married Charlotte JORDAN, probably > around 1828, place unknown. In 1837, his son William's birth certificate > was registered by a workhouse clerk. In 1841, he appears in the census > as a patient in the Brighton Workhouse Infirmary, birthplace 'outside > SSX'. Also in the workhouse were his wife and 3 children, down as paupers. > > In the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses, Charlotte was still in the > workhouse, enumerated as a widow, and nurse in the infirmary/hospital. > > I've now discovered that Charles died of epilepsy in 1846, in Bethnal > Green Lunatic Asylum, which raises some questions: > > Why Bethnal Green, if he had been in the Brighton Workhouse for 4 years? > Was it the nearest treatment centre? There seem to have been no > effective treatments for epilepsy before 1875. Was he just maybe > transferred to his parish of settlement? > > I'm assuming here that the epilepsy was the reason for his internment in > the first place. I have read on an un-sourced site that suggest > epileptics were kept apart from other mental patients, as the epilepsy > was considered contagious. > > I'd appreciate any insight as to why he died far apart from his family, > an suggestions for a good read on the subject, and of course, if anyone > has a link to the family. > > > -- > Regards > Dave > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message