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County Lunatic Asylum
« on: Thursday 13 March 08 17:13 GMT (UK) »
On the 1841 census, my 2xgt grandmother is listed as a laundry maid at the County Lunatic Asylum, and I wonder if anyone has any information on the asylum.   I have seen Springfield asylum mentioned in a book I have on Kempston, don't know if this is the same place.
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Re: County Lunatic Asylum
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 13 March 08 17:17 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: quest40 on Thursday 13 March 08 17:13 GMT (UK)
On the 1841 census, my 2xgt grandmother is listed as a laundry maid at the County Lunatic Asylum, and I wonder if anyone has any information on the asylum.   I have seen Springfield asylum mentioned in a book I have on Kempston, don't know if this is the same place.
Ann

Forgot to mention that gg grandmother's name was Catherine Ashwell, born 1821.
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Re: County Lunatic Asylum
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 13 March 08 17:18 GMT (UK) »
Hi Ann,

On this website, if you click on B at the top then Bedfordshire at the right, you get information about Bedford County Asylum, or ditto for Springfield, which was near Wandsworth...

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_TA.htm

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Re: County Lunatic Asylum
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 13 March 08 17:28 GMT (UK) »
http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/GuidesToCollections/HospitalRecordsPartTwo.aspx

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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 13 March 08 17:40 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for those links, very interesting reading.  It seems from the Beds archive that Springfield House was a private asylum in Kempston, so nothing to do with the county asylum.  Ann
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Re: County Lunatic Asylum
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 13 March 08 18:20 GMT (UK) »
The County Lunatic Asylum was in the parish of Bedford St Mary according to the census

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Re: County Lunatic Asylum
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 13 March 08 23:10 GMT (UK) »
There is a good book A Proper House - Bedford Lunatic Asylum 1812 - 1860 by Bernard Cashman, available in the Beds Family History Society library, (a copy in front of me now) that states that Springfield Asylum opened in Kempston in April 1836 and that private patients then in the county asylum were transferred there shortly afterwards.

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Re: County Lunatic Asylum
« Reply #7 on: Friday 14 March 08 16:18 GMT (UK) »
Thanks David and John for those replies, very helpful. Smiley
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