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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 not 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.
 
Hi Everyone
I've been waiting years for this.
Emily Jane Steeles (my great nan) me and my dad were raised not know she existed because of her being in a Asylum.
I have always know she was admitted at the age 39 in April 1910 and was released June 1910 but sadly was readmitted August 1910 i cant find the case notes for August.

I have finally found out she first went in April 1910
“She is very unsettled, complaining that people are throwing electric shocks. She has hallucinations of sight and hearing and strikes out at her imaginary persecutors.”

Then by June 1910 she was released.
She is quite excited at times, quite orderly, she can jump up, hold her hands above her head and sing hymns. Health good.

Can anyone find the August 1910 case notes please. The book I found only goes to July 1910

Sad story because her son got shipped off to Canada due to get being admitted. Im always learning unraveling this story.
grandaughter82

Thread 'Arthur Leeson Webb'

Ok so im looking onto information on Arthur Leeson Webb
After searching on ancestry ( if I am correct) I followed a trail which seems he ended up in st edwards home coleshill then off to canada again if its the same arthur. The only reason why im doubting this is because there is a marrage certificate in canada ststing his mothers maiden name is Jennie carrigan should be Emily Jane Sanders im confused I have either have the wrong Arthur or emily jane is not his real mother.
So further digging i found a baptism stating emily is his mother. Really confused now.
Any opnions would be really...
 
Oh thats a shame, thank you this has been bothering me today wondering why I couldn't find anything now I know.
Does this mean its missing completely or just ancestry havent uploaded to their site?
I really hope we get this.
I was wondering if maybe a search in birmingham library heritage would have it.
 
I have no idea why. But there is the book you found numbered 30 on Ancestry. Then 31 is a Mens record. 32 is 1911. I don't know if that means missing completely or not.
The records are held by Birmingham Library.
 
Last night I enquired about 25th August 1910 case study book for my great nan to birmingham heritage and received this today.
I think I reply with what you mentioned so they can confirm the one I am seeking is one thats been possibly destroyed.


The records for All Saints Hospital for this date are digitised on the Ancestry website in the dataset called ‘All Birmingham, England, All Saints Hospital Records, 1845-1931’.

If you do not have a home subscription to the site and are local to Birmingham, we have free access on our in-house computers. If you are not local, it might be worth asking if your nearest library has a free subscription for their library members.

If you wish to visit and use our computers to access Ancestry, our floor is open for this purpose from 11am-6.45pm Monday – Tuesday, 11am - 4.45pm Wednesday – Saturday.
 
I have the same problem. The records I am looking for are for female patients covering the period 1907 - 1910 but they are not on Ancestry so I am guessing they were destroyed or missing, hence not being able to digitalise them.

William.
 
Thank you Janice, Ive searched all of the records for All Saints but cannot find the information I am looking for - namely hospital patient records.

My ancestors name was Emma Davis born 1865 Birmingham.

From the information I did find, I could see she was admitted to All Saints Mental Hospital, Winson Green on 18th July 1907.

She was then discharged on 12th May 1909 and transferred the same day to Rubery Mental Hospital.

She died on 14th March 1910 whilst a patient at Rubery.

I am trying to find out why she was admitted to Winson Greenin 1907.

Lyn did say in a previous post (see post 11) that she would have a look but I am guessing she did not find any more information than I already have.

William.
 
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