Treatment for Melancholia

[delta59]

Would someone who lived in Dearnley have been sent to Winwick Asylum?

Del

[stanmapstone]

Would someone who lived in Dearnley have been sent to Winwick Asylum?

Del

Where is Dearnley ?

Stan

[delta59]

Hi Stan

Dearnley,according to Google is near Manchester, which is not a million miles from Winwick, but I thought there would have been nearer places.  According to her death cert she was a 'cotton operative of Dearnley', but I was going off what you said about Winwick being classed in Cheshire then later Lancashire.  All her life she had spent in Cheshire and everyone she knew was in Cheshire.

Dearnley had a workhouse.

I have been onto CRO and asked for information.

Del

[sorcha65]

I don t know if this will be any addition, but my GGrandmother was also admitted to the Winwick Asylum with melancholia and delusions. This was in 1922 and she was from Oldham. She had been transfered from the mental hospital in Oldham where she had spent a year. I don t know whether this means Winwick was a more acute institution. Hope this helps. Sorcha

[delta59]

Thank you.  I have looked a various websites re Winwick and thet say they took people from Runcorn where my relation lived.

Del

[stanmapstone]

Dearnley had a workhouse.

It was the Rochdale Union Workhouse. For Lancashire Asylums see http://studymore.org.uk/4_13_ta.htm#Lancashire
Winwick "Patients came from Liverpool, Southport and Formby, as well as the Warrington district. The 1986 Guiness Book of Records has it as the largest hospital of any kind in England, with 1,352 staffed beds. Previously it had been Europe's largest mental institution, with more than 2,000 patients.
Records are held at both Cheshire and Lancashire record offices, with Cheshire holding details of plans of the building"
Stan

[kimberleyallen]

I wonder if anyone can help me.  I am trying to find some more information on mental hospitals in the Rochdale area in order to trace my Great Grandmother Alice Close, nee Brearley.  Last seen on the 1911 census in Rochdale when her two children were quite small.  My grandmother used to say that she never knew her mother and the family moved to Lytham St. Annes, earliest records I can find is 1927.  The feeling is that she was an alcoholic and was sent to an asylum / institution.  I cannot find any death record for her.  Can anyone tell me if there is a particular hospital she would have been sent to when living in Rochdale.  Also were there any private institutions?  The family were quite wealthy.  Any help greatly appreciated.   

[kathb]

Hi, kimberleyallen, Rochdale is in Lancashire and you would get more local help it you place this post on the Lancashire Board not this one which is Cheshire.
Regards
Kathb

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