123 Cresent Rd, Crumpsall 1843

[feathersoft]

Would anyone know if 123 Crescent Road was a Mental Institution  in 1941?  I have an ancestor Mary Alice Farnsworth dying there in 1941 of Senility.  But then in those days Senility could have been seen as "insanity" perhaps.

Regards,

Janice Nevill.

[pat45]

Hi,
 I have a John Miller on my tree who died at 123, Crescent Rd, Crumpsall in 1928....I presume the hospital. From his probate records, instead of leaving his money to his family he left it to Edward Donald Brookes, company secretary. Could he be connected to the hospital as I can't find any connection to the family ?
Thanks, Pat

[dizzybella]

123  Cresent Rd, was the work house,..there was no Cresent Rd...the work house was on Delaunay Rd..they used the Crescent Rd address on birth certificates..so it did not hold them back in the future... google the history, it,s very intresting read

[pat45]

Thanks. I have read quite a lot about it. This is just another little mystery. He had over £100 so wasn't destitute. I just wondered if they had to will their money , if they went in to die....

[dizzybella]

123  Cresent Rd, was the work house,..there was no Cresent Rd...the work house was on Delaunay Rd..they used the Crescent Rd address on birth certificates..so it did not hold them back in the future... google the history, it,s very intresting read

[pat45]

Thanks.

[Barbara.H]

Pat, your rellie hasn't necessarily left his money to Edward Donald Brookes. The probate record just states that probate was granted to Mr Brookes, which means that he became the person responsible for the Will being acted on correctly. He might not have been a beneficiary at all. You would have to send for a copy of the actual Will to be certain.
https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/probate/family-history

Scroll down to Leeds Probate Registry and Form PA1S  I think a copy Will is still £6

Hope that helps
  Barbara

[pat45]

Thanks Barbara,
 That's very helpful. My daughter has found a link....maybe something to do with the house , and he might be a solicitor. We didn't think of that...Pat

[pat45]

Hi, for anyone else's information.....Edward Donald Brookes was a business liquidator for solicitors.....Wilfred C. Rogerson, 5, John Dalton St Manchester. From the London Gazette, London 1927, he liquidated Marlborough Engineering Co., Salford, Manchester.