Bedford Hospital

[flateric999]

anyone know when the hospital opened and any archives exist of patients treated there

[rosie99]

Have you looked at BLARS to see if there is anything there

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xz7/

Patient records would be subject to the 100 year rule. 

[flateric999]

I'll give that a look, thanks. Person in question is dead 100 years ago.

[stevew101]

Bedford Hospital opened in August 1803.  Samuel Whitbread was the benefactor who bequeathed £8,000 in his will when he died in 1796. 

Steve

[flateric999]

I thought so. It would fit in with a death registration IF it where possible to prove he was a patient.

[jbml]

John Speed's map of 1610 shows a St John's Hospital on the site of the modern St John Ambulance county HQ

[Craftyp]

Did he die in Bedwell Park Hertfordshire age 76.  His death is in a number of papers Saturday 18th June 1796 'the celebrated porter brewer'.  Also about a month later in the newspapers in his will it mentions brewery concerns also Bedford goal and the Bedford infirmary plus other bits. Just realised you weren't looking for Samuel Whitbread sorry

CraftyP

[jbml]

also Bedford goal

Might that have been Bedford gaol, by any chance?

(We play Rugby football in Bedford, not association football ... )