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Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« on: Tuesday 24 February 15 15:30 GMT (UK) »
I have found some documents relating to a relative who was in Rainhill Asylum in 1860. Although I understand some of it, I am struggling to work out a few words. Would there be anyone kind enough to help me please? Thanks. Lorna

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Re: Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 24 February 15 15:36 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to RootsChat

Can you post it for us pleas Lorna
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Re: Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 24 February 15 16:14 GMT (UK) »
Thanks. I am struggling to find what the word next to temperament and most of the paragraph on his discharge note.
Thanks in advance.
Lorna

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Re: Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 24 February 15 16:20 GMT (UK) »
Hi again, having just looked again, I also can't work out what the word is next to the result box and also by expression of countenance.  :-\


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Re: Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 24 February 15 16:23 GMT (UK) »

Expression of countenance - forbidding, furtive and ???
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 24 February 15 16:32 GMT (UK) »
First paragraph of discharge note

His mind is very weak and his moral nature apparently equally so.  He is reported to be greatly addicted to masturbation – there is very little indication of any ? – he answers when spoken to but in brief sentences and never makes a remark spontaneously and appears incapable of thinking.

Second para

A surly truculent looking fellow, in ?, if the countenance to the index of the mind, the highest moral findings are indomitable for his – three  words unreadable – more forbidding.  Having him under strict discipline for several months, he was
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 24 February 15 16:46 GMT (UK) »
? = "mind" and ? = "whom"

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Re: Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 24 February 15 17:04 GMT (UK) »
Thank you both so much for your quick replies!  :)
I'm really grateful of your help.

I'm hoping someone will know what those three unreadable words are  ::)

Thanks again that's been a huge help.

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Re: Can anyone please help me read an asylum case record please?
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 24 February 15 17:06 GMT (UK) »
Also, does anyone understand what the last few words are on the last sentence at the very top of the discharge record?