Hi All >>Is RELD released << Bit behind the times as I have been very busy, but I have now managed to look at some of these, and the register I was looking at (for "Metropolitan Licensed Houses 1851-1858") has these columns headed in full, showing that it is actually Rel[ieve]d. HTH Polly

"Reld" was NOT Released, unless the meaning changed between 1850 and 1863, or Relieved meant Released? When Elizabeth FARMERY was admitted to Hull Boro' Asylum on May 30th 1850 the admission register spanned two pages and the three columns for discharged are written out in full as Recovered Relieved Not Improved By the time Elizth FARMERY was admitted to W York Asylum on October 17th 1863 the admission register was just a single page and these three columns for dischaged were abbreviated as Recovd. Reld. Not Impd. Thomas FARMERY was admitted to Wandsworth Asylum 17/4/1890 then discharged 1/7/1890 "Not Impd." He was immediately admitted 1/7/1890 to Cane Hill Asylum then discharged 15/12/1890 "Reld." He doesn't appear again in the Admissions Registers but in the 1891 census he is a patient at the Metropolitan District Asylum, Caterham, Surrey. His will was proved 23.06.1892 by his widow Thomasine Maria FARMERY; he died 23.05.1892 The Asylum Caterham and left £137. Thomas was born at Kirkby Malzeard in 1828, was orphaned at the age of 3 and brought up by his grandfather Thomas FARMERY, a well to do farmer. He went to NZ in 1852 but in May 1861 was back and married at Hammersmith St Paul (though I can't find him or his bride a few weeks earlier in the 1861 census!) By the mid/late 1860's he was back in NZ as "Thomas FARMERY and Company" bookseller and stationer of Lambton Quay, Wellington. He went bankrupt in February 1870 but was discharged in May 1870 and he and his wife travelled back to the UK in cabin class. Three years after his death his widow emigrated to Victoria, Australia and died there in 1905. They had no children. Alan Moorhouse farmery@one-name.org ----Original message---- >From : goons@rootsweb.com Date : 30/11/2014 - 10:14 (PST) To : goons@rootsweb.com Subject : Re: [G] Lunatic Asylum (admission) records now on Ancestry Hi All >>Is RELD released << Bit behind the times as I have been very busy, but I have now managed to look at some of these, and the register I was looking at (for "Metropolitan Licensed Houses 1851-1858") has these columns headed in full, showing that it is actually Rel[ieve]d. HTH Polly ----Original message---- >From : goons@rootsweb.com Date : 30/11/2014 - 02:38 (PST) To : jo.mason@swsmail.net, goons@rootsweb.com Subject : Re: [G] Lunatic Asylum (admission) records now on Ancestry Hi Quite likely to be released, as my Pullum left one asylum and was admitted to another on the same day and there is no column for transferred, released would be the nearest correct description of his discharged. Nikki #6552 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jo Mason via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: "Denise Light" <denise.light3@ntlworld.com>, goons@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 30 November, 2014 9:22:16 AM Subject: Re: [G] Lunatic Asylum (admission) records now on Ancestry Is RELD released Jo