WANDSWORTH LUNATIC ASYLUM (SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL) 1891 CENSUS

[greenman]

Hello!

I am trying to find my great-great-grandmother ESTHER WRIGHT (1820 - 1900) who was committed to Middlesex Lunatic Asylum (St Bernard's) in c.1875, and then transferred to WANDSWORTH LUNATIC ASYLUM (Springfield Hospital) around 1890, where she died in 1900.

I am unable to find her in the 1891 census, in fact I'm finding it very hard to find the hospital in the 1891 census at all. I wondered if maybe patients were only referred to by their initials ...

Can anyone help ? I very much want to place this last piece of the jigsaw, as I now have her death certificate from 1900.

Many thanks as always!
FW

[CaroleW]

I wondered if maybe patients were only referred to by their initials

That was the case with many such asylums so tracing is difficult

[CaroleW]

Here is the 1891 reference for the hospital

RG12 Piece 451 Folio 45 Page 1

I used Hugh Gardiner Hill to find it - see http://www.studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm#Springfield

If you forward to Page 25 - that's when the female patients start - all initials

There is an EW aged 70 on page 41

[greenman]

Dear Carole,

MANY MANY THANKS!!!

I think you have provided the answer to that particular problem. Sometimes one feels very ignorant, and I really appreciate you contacting me.

Vivat Rootschat!

All the best,
Francis