A couple of weeks ago I posted the message below and have decided to just purchase the death certificate to see what it says. It will of course take some weeks to arrive here in Aus. At the time of the posting I was awaiting a death certificate for Charlotte's daughter Annie who married Alfred Coleman. It has now arrived and to my surprise she died in the same Kent County Asylum in 1918. She was not buried in Kent but back in St Botolph's in Worthing. I am curious because in 1911 she was a patient of Graylingwell Hospital which is very close to Worthing but seems to have ended up in Oakwood. Does anyone know why this might have been? It seems that Graylingwell was still in use and I don't understand why a person would be admitted to an institution in another county other than their own. If I am right about the C.N. in the census in 1881 and 1891, it would seem that again there was a transfer of some kind between institutions in different counties. I find it a bit spooky that if this Charlotte does turn out to be Annie's mother, that they were both in the same institution albeit 20 years apart. I have had a look at the A2A site and there are SO many registers - can anyone recommend which register would give me some insight to their incarceration or be able to suggest a researcher that could perform a search for me? Regards Liz Dolan Manly Aus Qld On 27/06/12 4:07 AM, Elizabeth Dolan wrote: > Hi All, > > I have just come across a entry for a lady in the Kent County Asylum at > Maidstone for 1891 who I believe may be my long lost ancestor. > C.N. aged 49 widow born Lambeth, London > > Now there is a Charlotte Nicholson aged 55 dying in Maidstone Sep 1897 > and I am now wondering if the records for the Asylum are accessible for > research > and can any recommend a researcher that would be able to do this for me. > > I am trying to confirm if the C.N. in the 1891 is Charlotte Nicholson > and secondly if the Charlotte Nicholson who died in 1897 was an > impatient of the > Asylum. > > Charlotte disappears in 1876 from Lambeth after placing all her children > in the workhouse. Her husband had died in 1874. The oldest 2 girls > ended up at the Royal Female Asylum at Beddington and the younger two > girls at the Lambeth Work school. Her son George was old enough to > go to work. I found a C.N. right age in the Wandsworth Asylum but no > death to match and no further entries for later censuses. > I am curious with the Maidstone entry because when her daughter died in > 1918 her place of residence was Maidstone even though she was buried in > Worthing along with her husband who was a Sompting man. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Regards > Liz Dolan > Manly Qld Aus > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >