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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => London and Middlesex => Topic started by: sarahLB on Tuesday 03 July 12 08:53 BST (UK)
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Help! I've made such a rookie mistake and i'm really cross with myself!
A while ago on a well known website I found records of my ancestor in Banstead asylum - the records were really detailed and I printed them off. All I recorded on paper was that they were from the london poor law lunatic register for Banstead! I can't believe I didn't write page numbers etc down!!
Anyway - does anyone know how I can go about finding those records again - I've tried looking at Lambeth but I'm at a dead end - Where did I find them???? I'm not expecting anyone to do the work for me but please point me in the right direction
Many Thanks Sarah
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You could try National Archives - Hospital Record database
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This thread may help
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,220480.0.html
Jan ;)
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Thank you - I know i originally found them on ancestry under the poor law records - just cant find them again! I have well and truly learnt my lesson!
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Hi
Ancestry has online unindexed poor law records - originals held at the Lobdon Metropolitan Archives.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1557
If you think the poor law union you are interested in is Lambeth then you browse the collection in the drop down menu on the right, then choose Lambeth again and then in the final drop down menu choose Register of Lunatics. You can choose which date of registers to view. As they are unindexed you will have to go through them page by page. You have to know which London poor law union sent these patients to Banstead asylum. It wouldn't just be Banstead asylum, poor law unions sent their 'lunatics' to. It would be the poor law union (whichever it turns out to be) register of lunatics with asylum destinations. It isn't a London poor law lunatic register for Banstead asylum. Banstead asylum would have its own admission and discharge registers.
Each poor law union had to make a yearly register of the 'lunatics' chargeable to the poor law union, either in the workhouse infirmary or in asylums. Some information will be given for each patient but this is usually nothing in comparison to the detail given in the records of the actual asylum where those records survive. These are not online and held at the London Metropolitan Archives. Records do survive for Banstead asylum.
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=11896&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2=advanced
Regards
Valda