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Title: Death in Woodilee Asylum - ?Buried
Post by: janwbay on Thursday 28 May 09 01:05 BST (UK)
I wonder if someone can help me.  One of my relations died in 1934 in Woodilee Asylum, Lenzie, Kirkintilloch.

Can anyone help me with where would he have been buried?

His name was Andrew Mercer, born 1877 and died 1934 aged 57.

Thank you
Janice
Title: Re: Death in Woodilee Asylum - ?Buried
Post by: cookies4 on Saturday 30 May 09 22:25 BST (UK)
Quote from: janwbay on Thursday 28 May 09 01:05 BST (UK)
I wonder if someone can help me.  One of my relations died in 1934 in Woodilee Asylum, Lenzie, Kirkintilloch.

Can anyone help me with where would he have been buried?

His name was Andrew Mercer, born 1877 and died 1934 aged 57.

Thank you
Janice

Hello Janice,

I would think it depended on where he or his family lived.

My g gran died there and was buried at Glasgow as that's where she lived before being admitted to Woodilee.

You could send for his records from http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/hb30.html but I don't know if that would give you the burial place. Closure is 75 years so hopefully you'll just make it

Regards,
Nel
Title: Re: Death in Woodilee Asylum - ?Buried
Post by: janwbay on Sunday 31 May 09 17:32 BST (UK)
Hi Nel

Thank you very much for your reply.  I wil definitely get in touch with the archivist.

In the meantime, do you think that being buried in the area that you come from would have applied to him.  He had been in the Asylum since 1908, - a total of 26 years.

Thanks
janice
Title: Re: Death in Woodilee Asylum - ?Buried
Post by: janwbay on Monday 01 June 09 12:26 BST (UK)
HI there

Can anyone tell me what the letters mean at each person's entry.  Two have B and one has L.

I am guessing that B is burial, but what could L mean?

Thanks
Janice
Title: Re: Death in Woodilee Asylum - ?Buried
Post by: Mm05 on Tuesday 01 September 20 16:01 BST (UK)
Hi Jan,

I came across this post while researching my own family tree. I am certain that this Andrew Mercer is a relation of mine, although I hadn’t previously been able to find out much about him (other than his birth). How did you find out that he had been in the asylum since 1908?

Thanks,

Matt
Title: Re: Death in Woodilee Asylum - ?Buried
Post by: Skoosh on Wednesday 02 September 20 17:25 BST (UK)
Woodilee (the Wudley) was built as Glasgow's Barony Asylum, archive here,

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb812-hb30

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Death in Woodilee Asylum - ?Buried
Post by: jasiain on Thursday 03 September 20 10:13 BST (UK)
Or from someone who also worked in it.......the Bo Didily
I would have said the widilee.......rather than the wudley but we all had variants of the hospital names.

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