I've not seen it previously mentioned that Ancestry added 2 days ago (just in time for the Medical and Healthcare seminar in London on February 7th 2015!) the following lunatic asylum records: Criminal Lunacy Warrant and Entry Books, 1882-1898 (4,332 records) Criminal Lunatic Asylum Registers, 1820-1846 (613 records) Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912 (842,355 records!) Most actual patient/inmate records appear to be held locally but the admission registers give name, admission date, asylum name and discharge date (which for some was the date of death!) Prior to 1808, asylums were privately run, and an act in 1808 provided for the funding of county asylums. Not many were built though, and many of the poor with mental illness and the criminally insane were still kept in prisons and workhouses. Those with the means made arrangements for mentally ill family members in private “madhouses.” In 1845, the Lunacy Act and County Asylum Act obligated counties to build county asylums for the poor and criminally insane and established the Lunacy Commission to oversee both private and public asylums. Metropolitan licensed houses were private institutions in cities, and provincial licensed houses were private institutions outside cities. County asylums and hospitals could be located in either place but were administered by the county. A quick web search for the institutions where the 13 Farmery "lunatics" were admitted between 1846 and 1912 make it evident that most of the institutions went under a variety of different names over the years, both before and after the creation of the NHS in 1948. For example, the decision was taken in 1809 to build an asylum at Lancaster and this opened in 1816 as the (First) Lancashire County Asylum; the Second and Third County Asylums opened at Rainhill and Prestwich on January 1st 1851. They all ended up, via a number if reincarnations, as Lancaster Moor Hospital, Rainhill Hospital and Prestwich Hospital. A good starting point for hospital names and records in the TNA website http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/searchresults.asp There is an Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals (a Middlesex University Resource) http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm There is another list of all known England and Wales asylums http://thetimechamber.co.uk/beta/sites/asylums/asylum-history/the-asylums-list A copy of Prestwich Asylum Admissions 1851-1901 is online (Gordon, there are a number of Adsheads) but I think these may also be on Find My Past? http://cdn.bbcmagazinesbristol.com/bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare/bonus_content/issue_58/sources/PrestwichAsylum/PrestwichAdmissions.pdf There is some useful background information in The Private Lunatic Asylums of the East Riding http://www.eylhs.org.uk/asylums.pdf For more details of the London seminar and on-line booking please visit the Guild website http://one-name.org/seminar_2015feb_medhealth.html I hope I haven't spoilt Elizabeth Finn's talk! But at least I now know what I'll be putting on my poster display board! Happy Thanksgiving to you from Seattle!! Alan Moorhouse seminar-bookin@one-name.org

I also use this site a lot for asylum information. http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm I've also contributed to it from inquests and the Lincolnshire workhouse records. It is worth noting that anyone in a pauper asylum (i.e. the ones built from about 1852 onwards) was being paid for either by the Guardians of the Union in which they were settled or by relatives that the Guardians had "persuaded" to pay for their maintenance. For this reason lists of paupers in asylums with the quarterly payments for their maintenance appear in many of the Lincolnshire Union Workhouse minutes and quite possibly do in the minutes of the Board of Guardians of other Union Workhouses throughout the country. Arguments between Unions about the settlement of lunatic paupers also take up space in these minutes. When a poor law Union covered more than one county e.g. Stamford Union which includes parts of Lincs, Northants, Rutland and Huntingdonshire, paupers were sent to the appropriate asylum for their place of settlement. However, during the 1870s it is clear that many asylums filled up and the Guardians were touting around asylums in other counties to try to get their pauper lunatics housed. Therefore people may have ended up in asylums a long way from their homes. An example from the Grantham Union minutes: 11 May 1893. With reference to the Order made by the Justices of the County of London adjudicating the settlement of Louis Gray to be in the Parish of Belton and adjourned for enquiries the Clerk stated he had done so, so far as he could, but he could not find that the Man had gained a Settlement elsewhere. The Guardians decided to accept the Case and directed the Relieving Officer to remove the Man from Bansted Asylum to Lincoln. [Page 31] Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html http://duncalfonenamestudy.tribalpages.com/ Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Alan R Moorhouse via Sent: 27 November 2014 19:57 To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: [G] Lunatic Asylum (admission) records now on Ancestry I've not seen it previously mentioned that Ancestry added 2 days ago (just in time for the Medical and Healthcare seminar in London on February 7th 2015!) the following lunatic asylum records: Criminal Lunacy Warrant and Entry Books, 1882-1898 (4,332 records) Criminal Lunatic Asylum Registers, 1820-1846 (613 records) Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912 (842,355 records!) Most actual patient/inmate records appear to be held locally but the admission registers give name, admission date, asylum name and discharge date (which for some was the date of death!) Prior to 1808, asylums were privately run, and an act in 1808 provided for the funding of county asylums. Not many were built though, and many of the poor with mental illness and the criminally insane were still kept in prisons and workhouses. Those with the means made arrangements for mentally ill family members in private “madhouses.” In 1845, the Lunacy Act and County Asylum Act obligated counties to build county asylums for the poor and criminally insane and established the Lunacy Commission to oversee both private and public asylums. Metropolitan licensed houses were private institutions in cities, and provincial licensed houses were private institutions outside cities. County asylums and hospitals could be located in either place but were administered by the county. A quick web search for the institutions where the 13 Farmery "lunatics" were admitted between 1846 and 1912 make it evident that most of the institutions went under a variety of different names over the years, both before and after the creation of the NHS in 1948. For example, the decision was taken in 1809 to build an asylum at Lancaster and this opened in 1816 as the (First) Lancashire County Asylum; the Second and Third County Asylums opened at Rainhill and Prestwich on January 1st 1851. They all ended up, via a number if reincarnations, as Lancaster Moor Hospital, Rainhill Hospital and Prestwich Hospital. A good starting point for hospital names and records in the TNA website http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/searchresults.asp There is an Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals (a Middlesex University Resource) http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm There is another list of all known England and Wales asylums http://thetimechamber.co.uk/beta/sites/asylums/asylum-history/the-asylums-list A copy of Prestwich Asylum Admissions 1851-1901 is online (Gordon, there are a number of Adsheads) but I think these may also be on Find My Past? http://cdn.bbcmagazinesbristol.com/bbcwhodoyouthinkyouare/bonus_content/issue_58/sources/PrestwichAsylum/PrestwichAdmissions.pdf There is some useful background information in The Private Lunatic Asylums of the East Riding http://www.eylhs.org.uk/asylums.pdf For more details of the London seminar and on-line booking please visit the Guild website http://one-name.org/seminar_2015feb_medhealth.html I hope I haven't spoilt Elizabeth Finn's talk! But at least I now know what I'll be putting on my poster display board! Happy Thanksgiving to you from Seattle!! Alan Moorhouse seminar-bookin@one-name.org _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4223/8641 - Release Date: 11/27/14 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5577 / Virus Database: 4223/8639 - Release Date: 11/27/14

Can't believe how many I've found! But what I want to know is what the headings in the Discharge column mean Recovered is obvious Is Reld relieved. What does it mean? And Impd. Is this improved so that they are well enough to be discharged? Out of 17 names, 7 of them died in the asylum. In most cases I didn't have an exact date of death so this has been useful. The difficulty is identifying the women who recovered! Regards Denise