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Staffordshire / Re: Coton Hill Institution Lunatic Asylum
« on: Saturday 14 April 12 22:50 BST (UK) »
Thanks Linell - will do.
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Staffordshire / Re: Coton Hill Institution Lunatic Asylum
« on: Saturday 14 April 12 14:51 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your reply Kath - at least I can eliminate your Davis line from my research!
I'm in the UK, and though not close to the Stafford Records Office, I may well make the trip there later this year to see what they have on Coton Hill Asylum. If you'd like to give me your relative's name I'd be happy to look for those details at the same time.
Regards,
David
I'm in the UK, and though not close to the Stafford Records Office, I may well make the trip there later this year to see what they have on Coton Hill Asylum. If you'd like to give me your relative's name I'd be happy to look for those details at the same time.
Regards,
David
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Staffordshire / Re: Coton Hill Institution Lunatic Asylum
« on: Friday 13 April 12 08:39 BST (UK) »
Hi Kath,
I've just stumbled across your post about Coton Hill from way back in 2007!
There are similarities between your query and parts of my current research - although we are clearly talking about different people - but it looks as though my Gt Grandfather may well have been working at the Coton Hill Asylum at the same time as your Gt Gt Grandfather.
Because of this I'm keen to know whether you managed to track down employment records for the Coton Hill Asylum?
My Gt Grandfather was Samuel Davis and he was working as an "Attendant at Asylum" - residence "Cotton Hill" (sic)when he married a Mary Jane Bott in August 1879.
Like your relative, I think that Mary Jane died a few years later in about 1885, aged 27 - possibly in childbirth.
I don't know how long Samuel worked at the Asylum - he isn't there in the 1881 Census. I think I've found him in 1881 - although the Census form seems to have him called James - but that's a different story!
As another possible connection, I couldn't help noticing that Davis is one of the names you are researching.......and some of Samuel's children from what I think was an earlier marriage appear to have gone "missing" - I wonder if they emigrated? Samuel originally came from Upton Snodsbury in Worcestershire, and clearly appears to have lived in Staffordshire as well.
Anyway, I'll finish for now, but it would be good if you spot this response to your rather old post - and are able to get back to me.
Regards,
David
I've just stumbled across your post about Coton Hill from way back in 2007!
There are similarities between your query and parts of my current research - although we are clearly talking about different people - but it looks as though my Gt Grandfather may well have been working at the Coton Hill Asylum at the same time as your Gt Gt Grandfather.
Because of this I'm keen to know whether you managed to track down employment records for the Coton Hill Asylum?
My Gt Grandfather was Samuel Davis and he was working as an "Attendant at Asylum" - residence "Cotton Hill" (sic)when he married a Mary Jane Bott in August 1879.
Like your relative, I think that Mary Jane died a few years later in about 1885, aged 27 - possibly in childbirth.
I don't know how long Samuel worked at the Asylum - he isn't there in the 1881 Census. I think I've found him in 1881 - although the Census form seems to have him called James - but that's a different story!
As another possible connection, I couldn't help noticing that Davis is one of the names you are researching.......and some of Samuel's children from what I think was an earlier marriage appear to have gone "missing" - I wonder if they emigrated? Samuel originally came from Upton Snodsbury in Worcestershire, and clearly appears to have lived in Staffordshire as well.
Anyway, I'll finish for now, but it would be good if you spot this response to your rather old post - and are able to get back to me.
Regards,
David
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