burials at a Lunatic Asylum

[plimmerian]

I've heard there is / was a graveyard at Winwick former Mental Hospital for patients and I was wondering if a cemetery was available on site for the former lunatic asylum patients at Eccleston near Prescot (as per 1911 census find) - does anyone know where these records are kept - thank you!

[nanny jan]

Hi,

Lancashire Archives would be a good place to start a search:

http://new.lancashire.gov.uk/libraries-and-archives/archives-and-record-office.aspx


Nanny Jan

[plimmerian]

thanks for the link 

[Mojave59]

Could it have been the County Asylum Rainhill  near Prescot Merseyside.

Closed in the 1980s
 Records at the Liverpool Record Office
    Central Library
    William  Brown Street
     Liverpool L3 8EW

Good Hunting

[stanmapstone]

It was the County Asylum Rainhill  near Prescot.You can see the Asylum Annexe on the map at http://maps.nls.uk/view/101103968#zoom=4&lat=2270&lon=5550&layers=BT (called the Rainhill Annexe)

Stan

[plimmerian]

thanks for the info ;-)

[churchmouse]

Burials for Rainhill Hospital were usually at St.Helens Cemetery..  The records for this cemetery are available free of charge on line....