Thank you! It was Purdysburn. I typed it into a few searches and it led me to the South & East Belfast Trust. I have requested records. I'm not sure I will be able to obtain them...even though she has been dead for 50 years. has anyone had any luck getting old medical records or is this topic still too taboo? Eireann On 1/28/07, irl-antrim-request@rootsweb.com <irl-antrim-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > > Most likely it is Purdysburn hospital, it had been a psychiatric hospital > as > well as a fever hospital in the past, it is in the south Belfast > Saintfield > road area I believe. > Yvonne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ulster3" <ulster3@gmail.com> > To: <IRL-ANTRIM@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 9:51 PM > Subject: [IRL-ANTRIM] Help! Belfast Hospitals - 1950s > > > >I am trying to locate a hospital where my great-grandmother died. The > death > > certificate lists the hospital in Belfast but I cannot make out the name > > of > > it - the handwriting is too cryptic. She died in 1957. > > > > It looks like it could be: Lundysbum or Lundysburn - something with > "burn" > > as a suffix. > > > > I cannot come up with any combination that comes in in Google searches. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions? Have any of the hosptials changed > their > > names since the 1957? How would I determine what hospital this was? > > > > HELP! Thanks > > > > Eireann > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > IRL-ANTRIM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > >