Hatton Asylum burials

[Lisajj]

Ah yes, the 100 year closure.
I'm sure if you contact Warwick district council they will be able to give you some info.
In the mean time I'll see what I can find out.
Warwick CRO are usually really good at helping out with problems.

I may go there soon, I've not been over for ages!  Going to work usually gets in the way.
There are some other threads on here about Hatton - most of them are regarding more recent events, so it maybe worth you searching just in case.

Lisa

[wildorchid]

I believe that some patients who died in Hatton hospital were returned to their previous home parish for burial.  Did your grandfather have family in Budbrooke?

[Andy_C]

No he didn't, in fact I rather think that the rest of the family had pretty much disowned him.

It seems fairly certain that the burial was at the Asylum. Next time I visit the Warwick CRO I'll check the burial record for St Michaels Budbrooke, just to be sure.

Andy

[wildorchid]

When I was a patient at Central hospital, Hatton. in the 1960's there was two grassed mounds, which we knew to be the burial mounds of patients who had died many years before.  There were no grave markers of any sort at this time.
In the 1960's and 70's and later it was common practice for the deceased to be returned to their home parish for burial.  (I know this as I was a parish clerk for a Warwickshire village some years later, and the old burial records showed several such burials of people who had died in the asylum.)
I am sorry to say that the old burial areas at the hospital were virtually mass graves. 
"The builders" did not destroy any grave markers:  there never were any.

[Lisajj]

Maybe the chap from the council was just trying to be nice when he told me about the grave markers.
I did see the burial map, which showed spaced out graves. I did know there was more than one person in each - just not how many.

[wildorchid]

Re. your great grandfathers burial at Budbrooke.
Are you aware that there is a public cemetery about 1 1/2 miles from the hospital, as you travel into Warwick?  I think this cemetery is probably within the confines of the parish of Budbrooke, which lies between Hatton and Warwick.
Is it possible that, when burials ceased to be held within the hospital grounds, patients were laid to rest in this cemetery? 
Just a suggestion, but might be worth your while to check it out.

[Benody1921]

Hello,

Don't mind me tagging along on this thread. My great grandad and great Nan lived and died at Hatton in the late 60s/early 70s. I live in Canada so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage for obtaining records. Does anyone know how I would find out where they were buried?