Hi, I have just come in on this conversation and recently I found an ancestor of mine being in and dying at Kew Assylum.She was admitted with "Melancolia" which looking further she had Post Natal Depression after loosing a child.We found some information on line but we then made a visit to the PROV and ordered her medical records and inquest details etc.While looking through the books on some of the patients records it was terribly sad and very confronting but it is part of our families history and their lives are just as important as anyone else so I believe we need to know their history.I am so glad we live today and not then as at least for Post Natal Depression there is a bit more known about it today than then and the treatment is certainly better.Some of the records we went through actually had very sad looking photo's of the patients but nevertheless a photo just the same.We were able to photograph the original documents with out digital camera which all came out great.I would recommend to anyone with a relative found in an assylum to make a trip to the PROV and look up the mountain of information available. Regards, Elaine Skehan. -----Original Message----- From: genanz-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:genanz-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of MartinE Sent: Saturday, 9 November 2013 8:50 PM To: genanz@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: John Derbyshire/Darbyshire - Tas convict, limeburner inSorrento/Portsea, 1803-1886 - Long post Thanks again, Kate. Yes, the 1879 one could well be her. I did find the 1899 one in Ancestry last night and it gave the location of death as the Sunbury Lunatic Asylum (that might explain the vagueness about her age, I thought). I managed to locate her in the PROV online records for that institution but then realised the age was not right. Sad reading, though was nice to see some as "cured". Lee-Ann, thanks very much for finding Thomas Darbyshire. I appreciate it. I wasn't aware that pre 1900 TAS records are available via FamilySearch.org (I had been using that site for other searches). I'll order the cert. cheers, Martin ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENANZ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message