Home of recovery Barrow upon Soar Rothley ?????

[byott]

Hello All.

I'm still looking for   Home of Recovery  , Barrow upon soar Rothley.   Leicester

During world war one. My G G  Uncle was sent there after being in the war for over 3 years he was suffering from shell shock very bad. & was sent back to England from the front line.

Only just over 3 months later he committed suicide at the above home. I have the death certificate. His wife lived in London at the time. Yet i could not understand why he was sent  to Leicester. Maybe some one can shed some light ??

I would just like to find out abit about the home or building.  It could have been a workhouse & part being used as a hospital.

Is there any one who could please check any papers for that time for suicides it was feb 1919. I now live in Australia.

I would so much like to find out as  we are doing our family tree. & i feel i know so much about my uncle now. I am in the process of getting his name  commorated on the CWCG. as it had been left off in error. & his name was misspelt.

His name is Fredrick Charles BYOTT.

I now live in Australia.  Thank you  Sandra

[alisontoon]

Hi Sandra,

I'm sorry I don't have the answer for you, but there is a Barrow-upon-Soar online newspaper, with some local historians who might be able to help:

http://www.barrowvoice.co.uk/spring_2005/old_barrow.html

Barrow and Rothley are two separate villages, about four and a half miles apart--does the certificate give both village names?

:-)

Alison

[byott]

Hi Sandra,

I'm sorry I don't have the answer for you, but there is a Barrow-upon-Soar online newspaper, with some local historians who might be able to help:

http://www.barrowvoice.co.uk/spring_2005/old_barrow.html

Barrow and Rothley are two separate villages, about four and a half miles apart--does the certificate give both village names?

:-)

Alison

Hello Aliston.

Thank you for your reply. On the Death certificate it was

registered In Barrow upon soar.

But Death in the sub district of Rothley .

So maybe i need to check out Rothley ?? Thanks for your links shall try & find out from there.

Just had another look at certificate. & where it saids where died .

 Home of Recovery Leicester Frith. Looks like R B underneath  cant make that out.   So would that still be under Rothley


Kind regards  Sandra .

[alisontoon]

Hi again Sandra,

I just arrived home and opened an envelope from GRO containing a birth certificate... saw the headings... and it struck me: does your death certificate say, "Registration district: Barrow upon Soar", "Sub-district: Rothley"?

If it does, then the Recovery Home was probably NOT in Barrow upon Soar itself--Barrow had its own subdistrict. The Rothley subdistrict covered a large area of Leicestershire, including Woodhouse (where a Cheshire Home is now found, which in the 1960s was a children's convalescence home... don't know about before that), and Belgrave which is now part of the general Leicester urban area.

I did a quick web search, but could not find a Recovery Home just by searching in Leicestershire. Does it give any other indication of the address at all on the certificate?

Another source you might try:

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/

A forum where you can post questions for free about WW1 soldiers

and its parent site: http://1914-1918.org/     where research can be commissioned (but see the "self help" link first).

:-)

Alison

[alisontoon]

Our messages crossed in the typing!!!  :-)

According to http://www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/REG/lei.htm, Leicester Frith is in the Barrow upon Soar district, so it could well be in the Rothley sub-district.

I think there is a hospital at Leicester Frith... I *think* that today it is a psychiatric hospital (and I seem to remember a young friend at school being taken there after taking an overdose of pills).

Also known as "Groby Rd" hospital, the address is: Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QF

:-)

Alison

[byott]

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Also known as "Groby Rd" hospital, the address is: Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QF





Hello Alison

Thanks so much for your reply. yes we both must have been typing the same time !!

There is nothing else on the certificate. or addreses.
just Home of Recovery leicester frith. I have put a number of threads on forums about this hospital but no luck.

maybe  i should try and find papers for that time and deaths in leicester. Thanks for your help shall keep looking. keep fingers crossed. Wish at times i was not so far away .

Thank you sandra

[angiem]

There was a convalescence home around the Swithland area  I remember it in the 60's and 70's.   

[alisontoon]

Hi Sandra,

I emailed the librarian at Groby Road Hospital, Leicester Frith, to ask if it had been known as a Home of Recovery during the First World War. This is the reply (all the information that she had):

"In answer to your question the Ministry of Pensions used Mansion House as a "Home for Neuroasthenics" (shell-shocked soldiers) during what is known as the Great War."

Mansion House is part of the Groby Rd/Leicester Frith hospital. I'm sure this is the place you are looking for.

Best regards,

Alison

[byott]

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"In answer to your question the Ministry of Pensions used Mansion House as a "Home for Neuroasthenics" (shell-shocked soldiers) during what is known as the Great War."

Mansion House is part of the Groby Rd/Leicester Frith hospital. I'm sure this is the place you are looking for.

Hi Alison

Would very much like to  thank you in the trouble you took in helping me It really is so very nice of you.  & i really do thank you !!!

Sounds like it is the place at Mansion House Groby rd Leicester. As it was used for shell shock victims Then. I shall look it up on the map. & see if i can find out any more.

Once again i have been searching high & low for this Home. So you have been a really great help. Thank you so much. Its so lovely of you to have done this.

 Best wishes & kind regards Sandra    YIPPEE