Lunatic Asylum Admisions

[Marytm]

I have been watching the House through Time program and he had the admission details of someone in an asylum. Does anyone know how you get these? And do you have to pay for them?

I have a John Watts born in Oldbury in 1850 who died in 1891 in the County Lunatic asylum Powick Upton on Severn. He was a widow with 5 daughters and I wondered why he was taken into the Asylum?

Thanks Marytm

[chempat]

Ancestry has these:

UK, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912

[Marytm]

Thanks I will have a look there.
Marytm

[CarolA3]

My great-grandfather died in the Oxfordshire county asylum in 1903 and I have copies of his records from the county archives (Oxfordshire History Centre).  They sent them by email and charged a pound per page.

See if Worcestershire has an equivalent service.  There shouldn't be a problem as the death was more than 100 years ago.

Carol

[bbart]

I'm guessing this is the same place:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=381&page=45

[CarolA3]

So Worcestershire Record Office it is then

Carol

[Romilly]

The Admission Records for my 3 x GreatGrandfather Samuel Dulston to the Oxford Lunatic Asylum are available on Ancestry.

I must admit that I hadn't thought of the Oxford History Centre until Carol mentioned it.

Romilly.

[CarolA3]

I've just checked and it was eight years ago when I got those records

At that time the Oxfordshire Health Archives were kept at the Warneford Hospital, but they're now at the OHC (formerly St Luke's Church where my parents married and I was baptised!).

Carol

[Romilly]

Hi Carol,

Did the Records that you obtained have much more info than those on the Ancestry ones?

I think that Ancestry's ones for Samuel Dulston were just Admittance Books, with names and dates. I'm just wondering if it's worth persuing any further?

Romilly.