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Anne Barrs
« on: Monday 08 July 24 18:29 BST (UK) »
Hi All,

I知 looking for some help as I知 a bit puzzled. I知 a trying to find the death of my 2xg grandmother and I知 hitting a dead end. Her name was Anne Barrs, and in the 1881 census she was living with her husband (George) and children in Southwark London. In the 1891 census George is listed as a widow. They were living in Camberwell then and had a one year old daughter so I guess she died around 1890. I put in her name and tried searching between 1881 and 1891 and the only results I get are for a 75 year old lady and a few children who died in infancy. She was 28 on the 1881 census so would have been 37/38 when she passed. I just can稚 seem to find her!
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Re: Anne Barrs
« Reply #1 on: Monday 08 July 24 21:57 BST (UK) »
There's an A Barrs - journeyman tailor's wife in a Mental institution in Coulsdon on 1901 census. Death in Croydon district in 1917 of Annie Barrs.
Her husband might have claimed he was a widower to avoid the stigma of having a wife who had been committed to an institution.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Anne Barrs
« Reply #2 on: Monday 08 July 24 21:59 BST (UK) »
FindMyPast has detailed of the case - definitely her
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Anne Barrs
« Reply #3 on: Monday 08 July 24 22:03 BST (UK) »
Oh thank you very much for that. Yes that would be her as George was a tailor. Thank you so much that clears up a lot!
Seabrook and Doggett Abbots langley, Herts
Robinson, Oxford
Fryer and Bates, Penn, Bucks
French, Oldbury, Worcestershire
Turner and Cunningham Galashiels, Scotland
Barrs, Leicstershire/London

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Re: Anne Barrs
« Reply #4 on: Monday 08 July 24 22:14 BST (UK) »
Quote from: LizzieL on Monday 08 July 24 21:59 BST (UK)
FindMyPast has detailed of the case - definitely her
Would this be a newspaper article? I知 going to the library on Wednesday so I will look it up!
Seabrook and Doggett Abbots langley, Herts
Robinson, Oxford
Fryer and Bates, Penn, Bucks
French, Oldbury, Worcestershire
Turner and Cunningham Galashiels, Scotland
Barrs, Leicstershire/London

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Re: Anne Barrs
« Reply #5 on: Monday 08 July 24 23:11 BST (UK) »
FindMyPast has the Bethlem Hospital casebook for Annie Barrs (dated 1891).
Her husband sent her there, according to the record.
Suffering from "acute mania". Cause - childbearing.

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Re: Anne Barrs
« Reply #6 on: Monday 08 July 24 23:23 BST (UK) »
1911 census --

She's a patient in the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum.

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Re: Anne Barrs
« Reply #7 on: Monday 08 July 24 23:29 BST (UK) »
Thank you both very much, that痴 been very helpful! The family story said that she died of pneumonia but I guess that was to cover up what really happened.
Seabrook and Doggett Abbots langley, Herts
Robinson, Oxford
Fryer and Bates, Penn, Bucks
French, Oldbury, Worcestershire
Turner and Cunningham Galashiels, Scotland
Barrs, Leicstershire/London

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Re: Anne Barrs
« Reply #8 on: Monday 08 July 24 23:32 BST (UK) »
1891 census -- St George the Martyr Southwark

She's a patient in Bethlem Royal Hospital (under her initials). Birth year: 1851.
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