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new mental hospital records on ancestry

Astoness

Astoness

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just had this notice...could be useful

  • Birmingham mental hospital records go online at Ancestry On the last day of June Ancestry released their third new collection of the month:



    Birmingham, England, All Saints Hospital Records, 1845-1931



    These are not just any hospital records – All Saints was a mental hospital, and you’ll find it described under a range of different names, including All Saints Mental Asylum, Winson Green Asylum, Birmingham City Asylum, Birmingham City Mental Hospital, and Birmingham Mental Hospital, Phew!



    But that’s not all you need to know – within the collection you’ll also find records for Rubery Hill Asylum, which opened in 1882 and was used for longer-stay patients.





 
mike ive just been looking at random records which go into great detail but unless i have missed it they do no seem to give the addresses of patients

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Thanks....I missed that link and clicked on the later one which showed a random page.
Was looking for Mom....Emily Price born 1922. Family rumour she went into a place like this for a short time.
 
I have been searching for an ancestor for 12-15 years - since I first started my family tree research.

I have never been able to find what happened to her after she appears in the 1901 census.

I thought maybe - just maybe it is worth searching the recently released Birmingham Asylum records.

Lo and behold there she was. Admitted in 1907 to Winson Green Asylum and transferred to Rubery in 1909 where she died in 1910.

Undfortunately I cannot find her case notes as those particular years appear to be missing.

William.
 
Astoness said:
great well at least you now know william..what is her name i will double check

lyn
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Thank you Lyn.

Her name was Emma Davis. She was married and born 1865. I did find her death registration yesterday on the GRO and ordered a digital copy but her age is given as 43 and not 45. Cause of death "general paralysis" so I have no idea why she was admitted to an asylum.

William.
 
williamjukes said:
Thank you Lyn.

Her name was Emma Davis. She was married and born 1865. I did find her death registration yesterday on the GRO and ordered a digital copy but her age is given as 43 and not 45. Cause of death "general paralysis" so I have no idea why she was admitted to an asylum.

William.
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ok i will have a look ...should not worry too much about an age being a couple of years out..happens a lot

lyn
 
Thanks for the link - this has turned up some fascinating, if somewhat disturbing, records. I ran a search on my Allday family, assuming I'd find one or two, but was rather taken aback to find five siblings all committed in around the mid-1850s while in their 20s and 30s. Maybe something that ran in the family, but they had lost their father (my 3x great uncle) in traumatic circumstances around that time, which may have contributed to their respective breakdowns.
 
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