St Michael’s Sanatorium, Axbridge, Somerset

[nellie d]

Hello.
Does anyone have access to the records for St Michael’s Sanatorium, Axbridge, please?
I am trying to discover information regarding
Selina Ellen Bastin, who died here at the age of 16, in August 1886.
She is buried in the cemetery there. I understand it was a sanatorium and convalescent home for people affected with TB.
Information I am looking for is relatives, if mentioned.
I know her mother was Mary Ann Bastin nee Simpson.
She had been summoned to Westminster Police Court the year before on charges of threatening her own sister, the child’s namesake, Selina Buck and another woman, Marian Evans. It appears that she believed Mrs Evans husband had absconded with her daughter.
I am interested to try and find out more about this story if I can.

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Henry Edward Baston/Basten - Baker full age married Mary Ann Simpson, minor on 28 February 1864 St Saviour Southwark
Address Red Cross Street*.
Witnesses are George Simpson and Louisa Basten.

His father Edward Basten - Baker
Her father James Simpson - Beer House Keeper

Three children found
Lydia Louisa reg. 1865 St Saviour's
Alice Elizabeth reg. 1866 Camberwell
Selina Ellen reg. 1869 St Saviour's

Their marriage does not last
1871 Census  # 77 Great Suffolk Street, Southwark
Mary Ann Basten 26 Born Kent
Elizabeth 4 born Kent
Selina   1 1/2 born Southwark
James Basten 21 born Kent   (should he be Simpson)
Richard Basten 14 born Kent  ( should he be Simpson)

1881 census   4 Upper Blooming Street Westminster

Mary A Basten 37 born Bexley Kent _Charwoman
Alice E 14  born Surrey
Selina E 11  born Surrey
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Henry Edward Basten in 1881 is back on Red Cross Street with a new "wife" Martha.
 

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Mary and the 2 younger girls were in the Workhouse 26 September 1872-10 October 1872
Ref Ancestry
 

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1881 census 10 Nile Terrace Camberwell

Eldest daughter Lydia L Baston age  15 born Southwark is with her grandparents Edward and Lydia Baston

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She is also with them in 1871

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There is an Axminster Heritage Organization that could possibly answer question concerning the Sanitorium.

Or The South West Heritage Trust.

[nellie d]

Thanks amondg.
That was kind if you to look, but I have that info.

I am trying to see if she ran off with Mr Evans 😯
 i have a newspaper cutting that will explain, but I can’t seem to post it here 😢

[nellie d]

Amondg…I will send it to you in a message x
PS…excellent work spotting that James and Richard are Simpsons…Richard is my great great grandfather.
Also, I can’t find a marriage for Henry and Martha, so I am assuming he dumped for Mary Ann and the girls.
This happened on the either branch of this family..my gt gt grandfather left his “wife” and four children for my gt gt grandmother. The wife was in the workhouse and gave birth to a fifth child and my gt gt grandmother gave birth to my gt grandfather a month later.
These Victorians seem to be a right bunch! 🙄😂

[nellie d]

There is an Axminster Heritage Organization that could possibly answer question concerning the Sanitorium.

Or The South West Heritage Trust.

I am such a twit…it’s Axbridge, Somerset, not Axminster, which is in Devon…let’s just say it’s a senior moment…does 58 class as senior 😬😂

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Apologies your 5th sentence said you were looking for relatives.

Henry B couldn't marry Martha he was still married to Mary Ann, he wouldn't want to risk imprisonment on bigamy charges.

How far is Red Cross Street from Hugh Street or Upper Bloomburg Street?.

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The daughter is not necessarily Selina.
 Lydia married William Henry Grenville Hutchens 25 December 1885 and she always lived with her grandparents, so she can be eliminated.

Whereas Alice Elizabeth was about 19/20 years old. She left the area entirely!!
Neighbours do talk.
Married William Cocks 1889 in  West Derby Lancashire (1901 census has Cox)
Married 2nd Thomas Rustage 25 July 1904 a widower reg. Liverpool Lancashire.

Selina would have been about 15 but already very ill from TB she died the following year 1886.

Newspaper articles are from April 1885.