Hi Heather, Well I am not exactly doing nothing as my house looks like a bombs hit it after Xmas. BUT I am ambidexrous in this department and bounce around doing computer and housework.....I dont get bored that way. Grin ! I have not tried the censuses yet, presuming that you had done that to death under all spellings. But when I googled various ways for Kingston Lunatic Asylum etc etc etc Ontario, Canada and Kingston Jamaica come up. Limiting it to Lunatic asylums there is one in Kingston Road, Teddington Middlesex, and a few others which seem to be Surrey. It may have been known as the Kingston Asylum because of where it was situated. I tried Parloc to see how far itchinor was from teddington, but Itchenor does not come up as a Parish per ce. This addy is a list of asylums. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_TA.htm Have a gander for yourself. However, Portsmouth according to Multimap, is much much closer. Teddington to Itchenor is well over 50 miles away. Strange!!!!!!! Might pay to post to the Portsmouth list. (hampshire) Obviously she was in the Asylum hence Robert stating married in census but she is never to be found. That is very sad, all those years in an asylum. I hope you find her, poor lady. I shall do some more searching and shall email the list if I find anything. Cheers Pam from Adelaide Australia > Hi, as you are all sitting around doing nothing I thought you could all do > with a little puzzle to keep your brains active! > Sarah Carpenter was born abt 1834 at Birdham, near Chichester, West > Sussex. In 1852 she married Robert William Rodgers/Rogers, mariner, born > abt 1826 in Ireland. She is with her family at West Itchenor (next to > Birdham) in the 1861 and 1871 census, and had 7 children. > In the 1881 census Robert is working in near by Selsey and is recorded as > married. With him is his brother Richard (who is in the census twice, he > is with his wife at Itchenor as well!) > In the 1891 census at Itchenor Robert is with various family members and > is again down as married, he died in the June of that year and is buried > at Itchenor church. > I then have a burial on June 2nd 1915 at Itchenor of a Sarah Rogers, > buried aged 85yrs old from Kingston Lunatic Asylum. > In the free BMD June Qtr 1915 at Portsmouth a death of a Sarah Rogers > aged 80yrs old. > I know there is a Kingston in Portsmouth and I know of the prison there, > but have not found a asylum. I don't think its Kingston in Surrey. I have > tried, and failed to find this poor lady in the 1881/1891 and 1901 > censuses with out any luck. > > Regards, Heather Brooks > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.9/1197 - Release Date: > 25/12/2007 8:04 PM >