Found with thanks

[cranstone]

Hi Dawn and Rosemary

Thanks for your replies.  Thank you for still offering to help Dawn.  Yes, it is disappointing to find you've been tracing the wrong person isn't it Rosemary, although I feel a bit guilty that poor Dawn is the one to have done the work to find that out for me!
Like you said, we must never give up looking and probably sending off for the wrong certificates from time to time, opening the envelope with great anticipation to find they're not your's at all!  If only the certificates were cheaper, it wouldn't be so annoying!
Good luck both of you
Kind regards
Cranstone

[dawnsh]

Hi Cranstone

Just a quick update, I was trying to do Rosemary's look-up and couldn't find who she was looking for in the Hanwell List of Patients either 

As I told Rosemary, I went to the staff to discuss what I was looking for and we all came to the conclusion that the List of Patients is most probably not contemporary with the entries ie it was written up at a later date to suit another pupose.

So, I'll have another go for you, not next week, the week after, and use the dates from Wells and Somerset you gave me as a starting point and look in the admissions registers.

Dawn

[dawnsh]

Hi Cranstone

Had another look for Ethal Ballard today, checked out

Register of Patients H11/HLL/B/05/20 1898-1900 and 05/21 1900-1902

She isn't there in either of them.

Dawn

[Greenman22]

Interesting point - The Middlesex Lunatic Asylum (Hanwell Asylum) is in fact not in Hanwell, Middlesex. But, on the west bank of the River Brent. Thus making it in fact in the Parish of Southall-Norwwood, Middlesex.
There is a small musuem within what is left of the hospital. It is open by appointment - tel: 0208 896 5000 (Ealing Hospital main switch board) ask for the museum.

Greenman

[cranstone]

Thanks to everyone for their help and information.

Regards