Yes CarolW
I was asking about the Asylum and why patients from Cardiff were sent there.
I have learned a lot from the people who kindly gave information. There was an agreement with Cardiff and Devon.
I have now asked a question within the Devon group regarding burials of patients from the Asylum in Heavitree.
I noticed that someone had asked a question regarding another Asylum and there was a list of burials that the questioner could check to see if her person was on it.
I wondered if there was a list for the Asylum in Heavitree.
Hello SNG
Heavitree asylum would have been required to register all deaths locally, so your man would have been registered at St Thomas RD.
Do death certificates in UK at this period state the intended burial place ?
If Heavitree had an on-site burial ground it would be much discussed by the local historical society and others, records at Devon Heritage Centre, and visible on maps or plans for the period.
There are burials for folks with abode given as Wonford House in the burials parish register for Heavitree.
I worked with another transcriber to put the burial records for Devon County Asylum, Exminster, into FreeREG last year. Jeff Ellis kindly donated his transcripts of that asylum’s own burial ground to us for including on FreeREG.
The full details of his work are in GenUKI.
He made a note of folks not buried on site and we researched the Devon parish registers to complete the picture.
All the Exminster asylum deaths were registered at St Thomas RD, so your asylum would have done the same.
Jeff accessed to the County asylum case files lodged at Devon Heritage Centre. Are the Heavitree files there too ?
Hopefully some of the above is of use.
Janelle