tracing my great grandmother

[jo.shelly]

I hope you can help me find out more about my great grandmother and her life in Parkside Hospital, Macclesfield where she spent over 60 years without her family visiting. Please can anyone direct me towards the hospital recordso.  I think she was admitted sometime before 1920.

[fastfusion]

welcome to rootschat....   can we have a name please of your great grann .....?

[Richard Knott]

These links may be useful (National Archives and the Cheshire local archives).
She would also be in the 1939 census presumably.
Richard

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1063
http://archive.cheshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Overview.aspx?s=parkside%20hospital

[KGarrad]

These links may be useful (National Archives and the Cheshire local archives).
She would also be in the 1939 census presumably.

Or, more correctly, the 1939 National Register, available on FindMyPast.
The indexes are free to search, but details require a subscription.

(It wasn't a census, as it was continually updated until 1991!)

Medical records are generally locked for 100 years, so there's probably nothing top find?

[fastfusion]

a death certificate will indicate some facts..... and a probate if any.......  1939 on sub site is a good idea...... 

[KGarrad]

Parkside Hospital was known as Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum from 1871 to 1920.
Then Cheshire County Mental Hospital from 1920 to 1947.

When the NHS was founded it became, in 1948, the Parkside County Mental Hospital.

There is a record at The National Archives:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1063

which says: Hospital now closed - no current information as to the present whereabouts of these records, possibly at Cheshire and Chester Record Office


Go to http://archive.cheshire.gov.uk/calmview/
In the search box, enter "Parkside" and your gran's name, then click on Search.

I found some 17,500 items available, a lot of them entitled "Case Notes for . . . .".
There is no indication of what years are covered? They may be only earlier Case Notes?

These records are held off-site, and usually require 10 days notice to retrieve a specific item.

[ScouseBoy]

I hope you can help me find out more about my great grandmother and her life in Parkside Hospital, Macclesfield where she spent over 60 years without her family visiting. Please can anyone direct me towards the hospital recordso.  I think she was admitted sometime before 1920.

     It is unlikely that the Hospital records are available on-line.   Which is the local Archives office for Macclesfield?

[carol8353]

    It is unlikely that the Hospital records are available on-line.   Which is the local Archives office for Macclesfield?

Cheshire (at Chester) as KGarrad has kindly added the link to below.

[jo.shelly]

Thank you so much for all your prompt replies.
My great-grandmother's name was Charlotte Goodall (1890-1982).