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Offline feinstein48

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Sheriff Hill Asylum
« on: Saturday 07 June 08 19:24 BST (UK) »
In the 1871 census some of my ancestors are shown as residing in the Sheriff Hill West Side Asylum. Does anybody have any information about this Asylum? My searches have revealed nothing.
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Re: Sheriff Hill Asylum
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 07 June 08 19:50 BST (UK) »
Hi Pete:

"Sheriff Hill is about two miles south of Gateshead and derives its name from the custom which formerly prevailed of the sheriff of Newcastle coming this place to meet the justices itinerant Here is the parish church and places of worship belonging to the Wesleyan Methodists and the Wesleyan Connexion. Sheriff Hill Lunatic Asylum is pleasantly situated on an eminencee about two and a half miles south of Gateshead from which a fine aspect of Ravensworth and its vicinity may be obtained. Samuel Kent Benjamin Barkers MD physician"

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Re: Sheriff Hill Asylum
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 08 June 08 19:07 BST (UK) »
EH ?  Sheriff Hill is about two miles south of Gateshead

sheriff hill is in gateshead, i know i lived there. 

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Re: Sheriff Hill Asylum
« Reply #3 on: Friday 13 June 08 19:22 BST (UK) »
Hi Barbara
thanks for the info and the links
Pete
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Re: Sheriff Hill Asylum
« Reply #4 on: Friday 13 June 08 21:13 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Inicky on Sunday 08 June 08 19:07 BST (UK)
EH ? Sheriff Hill is about two miles south of Gateshead

sheriff hill is in gateshead, i know i lived there.

Inicky,

The quote which Barbara gave was taken from Whellan's Directory of 1856, when, presumably, Sheriff Hill really was two miles distant from Gateshead.

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