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Thanks. I have unearthed some of that info in the past couple of hours, but needed to go out, so didn't have time to update.

However you have added new info for Oklahoma which I was unaware of, thank you.

Although she states Cubbington as a birthplace, I have found her in 1938 with her birth registered in Rugby. Cubbington would be registered in Leamington Spa. Her mother appears to be Edith M. Maycock who married a Ernest T H Phillimore at Rugby in 1930.

Annie, you are an absolute star. His death certificate just says death by hypothermia and I had a feeling there was more to it than that. Thanks so much, I will contact the records office and see if they can send over the full article.

Thanks to all that have helped, you are stars. 

Flavell is a unusual name. Would they be connected to the Sydney Flavell of Leamington Spa who was quite an industry leader in the market of fires and cookers.

http://www.leamingtonhistory.co.uk/?s=Flavel

I was a Pupil Nurse there in 1980. On my first ward, the tour consisted of the segregation rooms or the padded cells as they are more commonly known and I was informed that straight jackets were commonly used up till the mid 70's. Also a lot of patients had scars on there foreheads which meant that they had had frontal lobectomies, thankfully a practice that has no ceased. It means destrying a part of the frontal lobe as a means of controlling behaviour.

Even in the early 80's sedation of what was perceived to be troublesome patients was routine and electroconvulsive therapy was also routine. ECT is still used today but not as widely. There was also something called abreaction which was a combination of drugs given to make the patient more willing to talk, something along the lines of a truth drug. This was used on patients with deep seated trauma who found it difficult to deal with this memories.

As Cathy says there were a lot of people there that should not have been. I can recall one gentleman that had been there since he was 12 years old for stealing 6pence off the mantlepiece, wonder if we are thinking of the same chap Cathy?! There were also polish prisoners of war who did not want to go home when the war ended and as clearly we did not know what to do with them they were put into Hatton on the Hill to give it its full title.

There were long stay patients that had also been put in there for being disobedient as a child and eldery patients with dementia. The wards were the old open plan wards with no privacy for inpatients at all.

I am researching the Mullis Family from Hanbury near Leamington, they are on my Grandmothers side. I have some phots of what I think are the Mullis family and one of them is a "Jake" in uniform, cannot make out the insignia though.

My 2x Grt Grandmother is Ann Mullis and she married Henry wright in 1855. They had 10 children!