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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Cheshire => Topic started by: delta59 on Thursday 25 March 10 13:50 GMT (UK)
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Just found out my ancester died from Exhaustion from melancholia in Chester Asylum 1893. Does anyone know how this was treated or knows a goos website?
Del
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See Melancholy / Melancholia at http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/English/EnglishM.htm
Stan
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Thanks again Stan. ;)
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Also http://wapedia.mobi/en/Melancholia
Stan
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Thanks Stan, yet again. Could I be cheeky and just ask would Winwick Asylum come undre Cheshire also. I have found another relation in another asylum :(
Del
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Winwick Asylum was in Lancashire, and is in now in Cheshire (from 1974) see http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/LAN/winwick_asylum.htm
Stan
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Thanks Stan, new you would know. I assume I ask Lancs RO for details, Cheshire RO were very prompt in getting back to me with details of the relation in Cheshire asylum.
Del
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Hello delta59,
Just to add that the Chester asylum, known locally as "The Deva" was situated on the outskirts of Chester at Upton off the Liverpool Road.
This was a large site as the hospital had extensive grounds and these included a farm, amongst other things.
The buildings are still there but now form part of the Countess of Chester Hospital. You can see the old Victorian buildings on one side of the development. I think they were in use for mental health patients up to the 1980s. In recent years there have been attempts to build on the lands surrounding these.
Jo
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For other postings on Chester Asylum See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,333377.msg2131528.html#msg2131528
Stan
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Would someone who lived in Dearnley have been sent to Winwick Asylum?
Del
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Would someone who lived in Dearnley have been sent to Winwick Asylum?
Del
Where is Dearnley ?
Stan
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Hi Stan
Dearnley,according to Google is near Manchester, which is not a million miles from Winwick, but I thought there would have been nearer places. According to her death cert she was a 'cotton operative of Dearnley', but I was going off what you said about Winwick being classed in Cheshire then later Lancashire. All her life she had spent in Cheshire and everyone she knew was in Cheshire.
Dearnley had a workhouse.
I have been onto CRO and asked for information.
Del
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I don t know if this will be any addition, but my GGrandmother was also admitted to the Winwick Asylum with melancholia and delusions. This was in 1922 and she was from Oldham. She had been transfered from the mental hospital in Oldham where she had spent a year. I don t know whether this means Winwick was a more acute institution. Hope this helps. Sorcha
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Thank you. I have looked a various websites re Winwick and thet say they took people from Runcorn where my relation lived.
Del
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Dearnley had a workhouse.
It was the Rochdale Union Workhouse. For Lancashire Asylums see http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm#Lancashire
Winwick "Patients came from Liverpool, Southport and Formby, as well as the Warrington district. The 1986 Guiness Book of Records has it as the largest hospital of any kind in England, with 1,352 staffed beds. Previously it had been Europe's largest mental institution, with more than 2,000 patients.
Records are held at both Cheshire and Lancashire record offices, with Cheshire holding details of plans of the building"
Stan
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I wonder if anyone can help me. I am trying to find some more information on mental hospitals in the Rochdale area in order to trace my Great Grandmother Alice Close, nee Brearley. Last seen on the 1911 census in Rochdale when her two children were quite small. My grandmother used to say that she never knew her mother and the family moved to Lytham St. Annes, earliest records I can find is 1927. The feeling is that she was an alcoholic and was sent to an asylum / institution. I cannot find any death record for her. Can anyone tell me if there is a particular hospital she would have been sent to when living in Rochdale. Also were there any private institutions? The family were quite wealthy. Any help greatly appreciated. :)
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Hi, kimberleyallen, Rochdale is in Lancashire and you would get more local help it you place this post on the Lancashire Board not this one which is Cheshire.
Regards
Kathb
Moderator comment: Please reply on post on Lancashire board, http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,509539.0.html