Hi Phyllis Thanks for checking the Longview records for me. James Flagerty was in the South Western Lunatic Asylum on the 1860 census.  The OHS thinks this name was used prior to establishing the institution as Longview. James Flaherty was definitely at Longview on the 1880 census. Thanks for saving me the $32.00 to buy a membership. Sue ________________________________ From: Phyllis Garratt <pgarratt@gessert.us> To: ohhamilt@rootsweb.com; OHHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, April 10, 2010 11:36:43 AM Subject: Re: [OHHAMILT] Ohio Genealogy Society Sue, I checked this out for you. I could not find any Flagerty/Flaherty. I even checked the entire list of 600 people, one by one and no name was even mildly close. Are you sure he was there during that time? Could he have been under a different name? This is basically a grid table of information and is not an image of the actual census. The database description says "These names were taken from the books of the Asylum and many places of nativity and the occupations were not known." The data shown in the table is: Surname, first name, age, sex, occupation, birthplace and then specific notes. Most notes says Insane, but some say chambermaid, attendant, etc.  Phyllis -----Original Message----- Can someone look at this database and tell if it is a census, like the 1870 census ?  OR, is there more to the database like information on the patients ? James Flagerty/Flaherty was there from at least 1860-1880 and I would like to know what other info this database has on him.  To contact the List Administrator, send an email to: Kaesemein@aol.com Did you miss a message?  You can find it in the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/OHHAMILT/ Don't forget--there is also a message board for Hamilton County: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.hamilton/mb.ashx ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHHAMILT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sue, so it is possible that the South Western Lunatic Asylum he was at in the 1860 census is a different place than Longview. Checking the addresses on the census might help clear that up. I could not find any mention of a South Western Lunatic Asylum, although maybe it was a casual name for the place and not its official name. Here is the full description of that Longview database, if it helps: About this Database Longview Insane Asylum, Mill Creek Township, Hamilton County, Ohio in 1870: List of staff and inmates Longview Insane Asylum was a commercial hospital and lunatic asylum that opened in Cincinnati in 1823. The facility dealt with medical, surgical, obstetrical and mental health issues. It also had a services for the poor. In the early 1850's, the hospital was declared disgraceful. Over 160 patients lived in space that was to serve 60. Surrounding counties frequently left their mentally-ill residents on the streets of Cincinnati knowing they'd receive care. In the late 1850's, a new building, the Longview Asylum, was started along the Miami & Erie Canal in a rural area. The architect was Isaiah Rogers. The new hospital could accommodate 400 and had a separate building for African-American patients. This is a list of approximately 600 people residing at Longview at the time of the 1870 census. The list begins on page 67 of that particular microfilm. Heading information is: Inhabitants in N. East Portion of Mill Creek Township in the county of Hamilton, State of Ohio, enumerated by me on the 24th day of June, 1870. Post office: Avondale. Henry A. Johnson, Ass't Marshal. Subsequent pages were enumerated on 30 June, 11July, 12 July, 13 July. The asylum was dwelling 230 and family 235. Written in the margin of most pages was this notation: Longview Lunatic Asylum. On page 68 this note appears: These names were taken from the books of the Asylum and many places of nativity and the occupations were not known. US Federal Census 1870, Hamilton County Ohio. National Archives Microfilm Publication. Microcopy No. 593, Population Schedules of the Ninth Census of the United States 170, Roll 1207 Ohio, Volume 23 (1-368A), Hamilton County (pt.).