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Title: burials at a Lunatic Asylum
Post by: plimmerian on Thursday 03 July 14 14:58 BST (UK)

I've heard there is / was a graveyard at Winwick former Mental Hospital for patients and I was wondering if a cemetery was available on site for the former lunatic asylum patients at Eccleston near Prescot (as per 1911 census find) - does anyone know where these records are kept - thank you!

Title: Re: burials at a Lunatic Asylum
Post by: nanny jan on Thursday 03 July 14 15:01 BST (UK)

Hi,

Lancashire Archives would be a good place to start a search:

http://new.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives-and-record-office.aspx


Nanny Jan

Title: Re: burials at a Lunatic Asylum
Post by: plimmerian on Thursday 03 July 14 15:08 BST (UK)

thanks for the link  8)

Title: Re: burials at a Lunatic Asylum
Post by: Mojave59 on Monday 24 November 14 16:21 GMT (UK)

Could it have been the County Asylum Rainhill  near Prescot Merseyside.

Closed in the 1980s
 Records at the Liverpool Record Office
    Central Library
    William  Brown Street
     Liverpool L3 8EW

Good Hunting

Title: Re: burials at a Lunatic Asylum
Post by: stanmapstone on Monday 24 November 14 19:34 GMT (UK)

It was the County Asylum Rainhill  near Prescot.You can see the Asylum Annexe on the map at http://maps.nls.uk/view/101103968#zoom=4&lat=2270&lon=5550&layers=BT (called the Rainhill Annexe)

Stan

Title: Re: burials at a Lunatic Asylum
Post by: plimmerian on Tuesday 25 November 14 14:31 GMT (UK)

thanks for the info ;-)

Title: Re: burials at a Lunatic Asylum
Post by: churchmouse on Thursday 24 September 15 17:34 BST (UK)

Burials for Rainhill Hospital were usually at St.Helens Cemetery..  The records for this cemetery are available free of charge on line....