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Larbert lunatic asylum.
« on: Thursday 27 January 11 00:17 GMT (UK) »
I have been on the trail of my GG grandmother on and off for weeks.Have been trying to find a death.I worked out that she had her last child Jennie in 1886 aged 40 but was missing from the 1901 census so I presumed she had died between those dates.However I noticed on the census her husband was still entered as married and not widowed.Well I finally,sadly found she had died in 1903 in Larbert lunatic asylum.Would this asylum cater for Armadale/Bathgate districts? Does anyone know anything about the place? Would there be any records available anywhere so I can see apart from the obvious why she ended up there.

George.
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Re: Larbert lunatic asylum.
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 27 January 11 00:28 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Larbert lunatic asylum.
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 27 January 11 00:36 GMT (UK) »
Cheers Fergie,will go have a look at that.

George.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
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Re: Larbert lunatic asylum.
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 27 January 11 00:42 GMT (UK) »
Very useful Fergie,thank you very much.An address and phone number to go on.I will get in touch with them.

Thanks again.

George.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Larbert lunatic asylum.
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 09 March 11 21:37 GMT (UK) »
Hi George
Larbert Lunatic Asylum is still there but is known as Bellsdyke, the guy from Forth Valley NHS is very helpful he sent me details of a relative of mine. I find it strange that someone from Bathgate/Armadale would have went there considering Bangour is just down the road

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Re: Larbert lunatic asylum.
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 09 March 11 23:11 GMT (UK) »
Hi Steven,thanks for that.Still trying to find something out.Though I have been on another trail for a while.I have no idea why she was there.The rest of the family were still in the Armadale/Bathgate area.Her family before marriage were from Bo'ness so it seems a bit strange.

George.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Larbert lunatic asylum.
« Reply #6 on: Friday 11 March 11 11:51 GMT (UK) »
Hi George
I just re-read your original post and realised the date was 1903, Bangour didn't open until 1906 so Bellsdyke could have been the closest psychiatric unit
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Re: Larbert lunatic asylum.
« Reply #7 on: Friday 11 March 11 17:37 GMT (UK) »
Hi Steven,I have since been told that she may not have been there with a mental problem,though it is possible.She could have had some disabilitating disease that needed special care.Hopefully I will find out one way or the other.

Thanks for your help.

George.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Larbert lunatic asylum.
« Reply #8 on: Friday 11 March 11 21:05 GMT (UK) »
Is it Thomas Selbach you are dealing with at Forth Valley NHS, it was him I spoke to, he was very helpful

Steven
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