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The Common Room / Ancestry Lunacy Patients Asylum Admissions - no records after 1912
« on: Saturday 09 March 24 19:37 GMT (UK) »
It seems Ancestry's title for their dataset, and the source information below, is wrong. The Commissioners in Lunacy was replaced in 1913 by the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency, and it appears only the admissions under the old Commissioners of Lunacy up to 1912 are actually included in Ancestry's dataset. I assume Ancestry in fact have no data on Asylum/Mental Hospital admissions from 1913-21 or afterwards.
Ancestry.com. UK, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1921 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Commissioners in Lunacy, 1845–1921. Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, Series MH 94. The National Archives, Kew, England.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/9051/
This page confirms the Commissioners merged into the Board of Control in 1913
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F260716
This is the National Archives parent category that includes all the old Commissioners and later Board of Control records
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C621
Admissions records can be browsed here (none by name, just by volume), but none after 1912 have been indexed or digitized online so would need to be consulted at the National Archives
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C21184/cfirst
Ancestry.com. UK, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1921 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Commissioners in Lunacy, 1845–1921. Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, Series MH 94. The National Archives, Kew, England.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/9051/
This page confirms the Commissioners merged into the Board of Control in 1913
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F260716
This is the National Archives parent category that includes all the old Commissioners and later Board of Control records
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C621
Admissions records can be browsed here (none by name, just by volume), but none after 1912 have been indexed or digitized online so would need to be consulted at the National Archives
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C21184/cfirst