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Hi All

I have just come across this thread in relation to some research I am doing and wanted to add to the info provided by others based on my research>

Wallingford opened in 1912 (others have said 1911 )  for boys and men who were not of full mind.  Usually it was for epileptic men and was based on the idea of a German Socialist group and I would say something similar to the bruderhoff of today.  As others have said it was the intention of teaching this young boys and men (some to the age of 50) skills that they could use in the "new world".  Ie our new colonies.  My research of one person as shown that they were not always sent out to the new world.  Unfortunately due to closure rules I am as yet unable to access any more records on my subject until January next year so I wont find out who put him there (I am assuming the board of guardians for his poor union) and when he was discharged/left.

As others have said it later became a reform type school where those who couldnt be educated in normal surroundings were sent or those who had come into the arms of the law.  It would seem that it started to lose money around the 70s and was later sold off. 

I appologise for the repeating of some information but I cuoldnt tell the history as I understand it without doing so

Rob

He was  a prisoner I found a newspaper report explaining whats his crime was.

ty for your responses

Rob

I have today come across a birth in 1888 in Petal Ceylon.  Ive spent most of the day following link after link searching records on FindMyPast familysearch other online resources with no avail.  All of the links followed appear on here as well in a few threads previously started.

Francis Pulley was born in 1888 according to census and his WWI soldiers records.  The place of birth given was petal Colombo.  As I have said all searches of birth records seem to turn up a blank. 

His military records list his next of kin as an Uncle in Norwich close to where he was living when he joined up/was conscripted.  Interestingly those papers also state he suffers with Ague caused by him being brown.   

This threw me because id assumed before reading this is ethinc make up would have been white.  So question one would be as a British owned country would the people there have been granted British citizenship because of this.

His colour makes no difference in the terms of this research. 

Second question is does anyone know of any incoming ships lists other than those on Ancestry and FindMyPast

Finally I know civil registration was in place by 1888 in Ceylon but what was the uptake of people registering births there at this time

Rob

Hi all now the 1921 as hit ancestry I went digging my grandparents for no other reason than wanting to see their earliest census appearance.  Whilst doing this i noted my great grandfather was listed as an inmate and this was the address given on the title page.  Now as My great Grandfather is listed as a voter on the electoral roll in Doncaster and his remaining child (my grandfather) and his wife are in the property I expected them to be he as ended up in this place.  I wonder if the prison at this time was also called the sanitorium because at the end of these schedules there are children listed as patients. 

There is no mention of TB having been an infliction my great grandparents suffered with.    He was an underground miner so I guess if it is a hospital he could be suffering with lung problems but that doesnt seem likely.  TB is also unlikely because there were a couple of sanatoriums in Doncaster one not too far from their address.  There is no way it would be for reasons of destitution as well because he was originally from Clay Cross in Derbyshire and if he was going to be sent anywhere id expect that,

DOes anyone know if the admission records for this sanatorium are extatnt and if they are would they be at Hull archives

Rob