Heather & Pam The lunatic asylum at Kingston Road, Teddington, was called Normansfield Asylum , later Hospital, and has recently been redeveloped into luxury apartments and houses. I don't think it would have ever been described as Kingston. There was an area of what is now Portsmouth called Kingston, which seems much more likely. Best regards, John, whose grandmother was a FUNNELL ----------------------------- > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:20:57 +1030 > From: "pamhillier" <pamhillier@iprimus.com.au> > Subject: Re: [SXP] Sarah Rodgers nee Carpenter > To: <SUSSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <006e01c84833$4efa5620$01301ad3@GENHILLIER> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > 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. > <snip> >

Hi John I worked out that Portsmouth would be a lot closer and probably where Heather needed to research, but couldn't find any reference to Kingston in Hamps. Takes a local to know rather than an ex-pat Kentish gal in Oz. Grin ! I am sure Heather now knows which direction to head at the very least. Happy New year to all and happy hunting Heather. Pam from Adelaide Australia > Heather & Pam > > The lunatic asylum at Kingston Road, Teddington, was called Normansfield > Asylum , later Hospital, and has recently been redeveloped into luxury > apartments and houses. I don't think it would have ever been described > as Kingston. There was an area of what is now Portsmouth called > Kingston, which seems much more likely. > > Best regards, > > John, whose grandmother was a FUNNELL > > ----------------------------- >> Message: 3 >> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:20:57 +1030 >> From: "pamhillier" <pamhillier@iprimus.com.au> >> Subject: Re: [SXP] Sarah Rodgers nee Carpenter >> To: <SUSSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> >> Message-ID: <006e01c84833$4efa5620$01301ad3@GENHILLIER> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> 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. >> <snip> >> > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >