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Hi Ian,

Many thanks for the details regarding the Ancestry records and the search parameters.

The St Nicholas Deptford PRs are in the London collection on Ancestry, with images.

You need to look under
London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1940
Borough of Greenwich > St Nicholas, Deptford: Deptford Green > 1784-1812.

The saint part is spelt Saint in one lot and St in another. You want the ones with St.

Ian C

I will look into those next time I am at the library.

Cheers,
Simon

My apologies to Elwyn, the group and PRONI as it has taken me longer to post this than it took for them to respond.

As previously mentioned I used the e-catalogue references kindly provided by Elwyn to find the resources which contained personal records for patients.

I then used the online query form at https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/proni-enquiry-service and submitted a request for records relating to my gg grandmother. In this I included the links to the civil marriage and death records available at https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/ and the relevant reference numbers and received an initial response a week after submitting.

Twenty days later I received the information that they had managed to find relating to my query.

Sadly in my case they were only able to find the entry relating to her death, but this did contain the date that she was admitted to the Asylum indicating that she had been released from Peebles Asylum on the 3rd June and admitted to the Londonderry Asylum the next day.

Definitely worthwhile trying due to the very prompt response from the Team at PRONI.

Hi Elwyn,
Very many thanks for the additional information and reference numbers. I had searched the ecatologue and failed to find any reference to the records you have very kindly posted.

Me and search engines don't see eye to eye.

I had a look at the PRONI e-catalogue and amongst their records for Londonderry Asylum....

You can make an FOI request to them by e-mail and there’s no fee.

I have already used the online Enquiry option from the link you supplied in your original post so I will see what response I get from that query. If the initial response isn't helpful I'll send another with the new HOS references you have supplied. While I doubt there would be a photo of Margaret, just the thought that there could has brought a massive smile to my face.

I can't thank you enough for all of this information!

Simon

Hi Gaffy,
Many thanks for the information regarding Margaret as it seems very likely that M Guinness would be Margaret.

Just as an aside, the 1911 Ireland census shows a 33 year old Margaret McGuinness as a nurse in the Lunatic asylum (under house 20.1 in Strand Road, Derry).

Cheers,
Simon