general question

[alice09]

Hi I'm new. wonder if anyone can help me with tracing my g/mother.
She disappears off the radar in 1888 after the birth of her 6th child.
I think i may have found her on the 1911 cen. as being in Bethnel Green asylum. Does any one know how or if I can trace her medical records and where she was from 1888 to 1911.

 Thank You.

[genjen]

Hello and welcome.

Maybe you could give us some more details -  things like name, age, place of birth, husband and children and then we could help you to find her in 1891/1901.

Jen

[alice09]

Thank You.

 Her name was Esther Hutton (nee Hum/Humn/Humm) Colchester 1854-1932. Husband John 1852-1936. Children: Fred, Basil, Stanley (RIP aged 2),  Emily, Olive, Maud, Ernest.  Thought I had traced her to Stone Hosp. Dartford but when enquired at The Nat. Archives it wasnt her.

[groom]

Is it just Esther you can't find in 1891 and 1901 or are the whole family missing? As she appears to be in Bethlem Green Asylum in 1911, I wonder if she was in a hospital for those censuses and only recorded under her initials?

Jan

[genjen]

There is a possible entry for her in 1891, in Essex County Lunatic Asylum.

Listed as EH, female, age 37, married, born Colchester.

RG12/1382/159/27

Jen

[groom]

Are the children with their grandparents, John and Martha in 1891?

RG12   Piece: 1415   Folio: 42   Page: 15   
Maldon Road, Birch

Good find Jen, perhaps she suffered from some sort of illness after the birth of Ernest.   

[genjen]

In 1901, there is an E Hutton in Dartford County Asylum. She is described as the wife of a zinc worker. Do you know what John's trade/profession was?

Jen

[groom]

He was a carpenter in 1881, Jen.

RG11   Piece: 1793   Folio:12   Page: 18 

  
 

[genjen]

Ah - Is the Dartford Asylum the same place as the Stone Hospital? Sorry, I was being dim there.

There are entries under EH again in 1901 but none which fits as well as the 1891 entry.