Grangegorman Mental Hospital

[Jamesshepherdsbush]

I have just received a death certificate for a Gt Grand Uncle who sadly ended his days at Grangegorman Mental Hospital. Whilst their website is well put together I can't seem to find out if there is any way of accessing his records if they are still in existence. Any clues/ help/ tips would be appreciated

[shanew147]

As far as I know the records are still held on site in Grangegorman Museum ... there was a topic about this recently here on RootsChat - I'll have a search for it and post a link...


Shane

[shanew147]

see :    Re: Baptism address - Lunatic Asylum



S.

[Jamesshepherdsbush]

Many thanks Shane

[shanew147]

Dont know if it's related, but see that one of your previous posts mentioned the North Dublin Union Workhouse.. the Workhouse, Richmond Asylum / Grangegorman / St. Brendans and a group of hospitals (Richmond, Whitworth & Hardwicke) were all located in the same block of land off North Brunswick Street.



Shane

[Jamesshepherdsbush]

Well it's beginning to look like there was a fair bit of lunacy going on in my family in the early 1900's

[shanew147]

One of mine (gtgt-grandmother) also died in the Asylum - or R.D.L as it's shown on her cert. Admitted in 1879 for what would now be called depression after the death of her husband.

I'll check what sort of details we found out on her from the Grangegorman records...


S.

[Jamesshepherdsbush]

Sad thing is that this one died of heart failure; a bachelor aged 50. So this is the end of the Fitzgerald line for me. I was hoping that the informant may have been a wife but sadly just another "inmate". His home address was Wentworth Place. As this was a tenement building I presume he must just have rented there.

[shanew147]

I dont remember the format of the admission books - but think it was like the records in the Workhouse - i.e. a row across the page with the details for each person. This is the information we found :

  name
  date of admission, admission number
  age, marital status , occupation and home address
  name of person that authorized her admission
  name of person on medical certificate
  disease or disorder
  date or discharge or death
  denomination & notes

The longer stay patients often had more details recorded as they would also appear in the case books. The name of the doctor turned out to be quite useful as I was able to track him down to the area the the family came from.


Shane