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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Berkshire => England => Berkshire Lookup Requests => Topic started by: mrstar on Monday 12 September 11 17:50 BST (UK)
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Hello,
I have a Martha JUDGE death registered Jul-Aug-Sep 1929 Wallingford, Berkshire. She was a patient at Fair Mile hospital (previously Berkshire asylum and Moulsford lunatic asylum) in Cholsey since the 1880s so wonder whether she is buried near here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated as she went to the asylum when her four children were very young (all got split up and lived with different family members) and her husband died in the 1890s so I wonder if any of them even knew when she died. I would really like to know where she is.
Thankyou for your time.
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Hi Mrstar
According to the Ex OFHS transcripts for Cholsey Burials
1929 21 Sep JUDGE Martha Berks Mental Hospital 73
from these its not clear if she was buried at St Marys Cholsey or the Hospital But as the page headed Fairmile hospital burials stops at 1917 and the page Martha is on is headed Church Burials suggests that she is at St Mary's Churchyard
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Thankyou so much, this really means a lot. ;D
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Hi
The NBI gives
21 Sept 1926 Martha Judge 73 Berkshire Cholsey St Mary
So it does look as if she was definitely buried in the churchyard.
Does that help?
Jan
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The BRO holds the records for Fair Mile Hospital see link
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=005-dh10&cid=0&kw=fair mile#0
Also there is another Martha Judge buried at St Mary's Cholsey a relative prehaps?
Ex OFHS
18 Dec 1836 Martha Judge age 72
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This is all really helpful, thankyou so much. I have not come across another Martha Judge yet but I will now look. This is my mother-in-laws family (her maiden name was Judge) and Martha was her g grandmother and she will be thrilled we now know where she is.
I don't suppose Martha's husband John Judge is also buried here? Though I doubt it as he lived in Stokenchurch.
Thankyou also for the info regarding Fair mile - we would like to find out why she was admitted, leaving her four young children, and why she was there so long. ???
Thankyou again I will ring my m-in-law now and tell her :)
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There are 2 John Judge's buried at St Peter & St Pauls Church Stokenchurch in the 1800-1900+ along with quite other judges from 1741 onwards
Ex OFHS transcripts
21 Jun 1845 John Judge Stokenchurch age 78
17 Feb 1899 John Judge Stokenchurch age 40
There are a lot of Judge baptism's & marriages etc earliest showing are 1741
have sent you a PM with an extract from an article I was reading today about Fair Mile
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My great aunt Alice Maud FENTIMAN died in Fair Mile Hospital on 30 August 1908 at the age of 33, and was buried on 3rd September. The National Burial Index specifies the burial place as the County Lunatic Asylum, but I have not located any other burials there, nor is any cemetery listed or mapped in the current forms for planning change of use applications. Another source suggested she is buried in Cholsey churchyard, but I have not been able to find a reference to a grave there either. Can anyone identify where she might actually be?
Ta
Roger
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Hi
She is actually recorded twice on the index as being buried on 3rd September 1908 - once as you say at the County Lunatic Asylum and once at Cholsey, St Mary.
Jan
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Hi Mrstar
There is a newspaper article in the Reynolds Newspaper (London England) dated 8/2/1885 relating to a Mrs Martha Judge. (Not sure if this is your Martha Judge, but this woman certainly looked to have some mental health problems)
At The Maidenhead Petty Sessions
Basically it says that it was proved that Martha was charged on remand with assaulting her son. She held her 9 month baby boy over a copper of boiling water, doubled its head between its legs and threw it on the fire.
She was commited to goal for a month without hard labour.
The newspaper report also stated that she was not responsible for her actions at times.
Chris
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Oh my goodness, that certainly sounds like her - in some of her records it mentions putting one of the babies on the fire. I have pmd you and would be incredibly grateful for the info - thank you so much. :)
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I am trying to find information on Henry Spicer born in Grove Berkshire 1817, who died in Moulsford Asylum in Jan 1884. He had previously been in Littlemore Asylum around 1851 and Caterham Asylum around 1871. :o