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To find out where she was when she died, buy a copy of the death cert.

We already know Emma Booth was in Claybury Asylum when she died - the admission register shows her discharge was 'death'.

The 1911 census I posted shows female, married E Booth at Claybury Asylum, born c1862 Salisbury Wiltshire, where the Brown family came from, and which was given as Emma Booth/Bootle's place of birth in the 1891 census that Chris posted previously.

Admittedly Emma stayed aged 49 from the time of the 1911 census through to Dec 21st 1912 when she died in Claybury Asylum, aka London County Lunatic Asylum, Claybury, Woodford Bridge, Essex, in the sub district of Ilford, which comes under Romford Registration district. However those sorts of minor anomalies with age seem to be par for the course as we are all aware from our researches.

This death tallies with the FreeBMD death reg that Yvonne cited in her original post, and her recent repost on this thread.

Deaths Dec 1912 Booth Emma E 49 Romford 4a 558

As you quite rightly state, the death cert would indeed say where Emma was when she died; but as Yvonne is doing this research for a friend, and as the evidence seems pretty strong (at least to me) that the records posted show Emma did die in a particular lunatic asylum, it's probably an unnecessary expense to incur. :-)

Kucintai have let my friend know that her granmother died in the asylum her mother emma told her this my friend said to thank you for finding the place she died in

Happy to help., and to confirm the oral family information. that your friend had received.

The work previous posters had done on the census etc for Emma and her family also helped confirm that we sadly had the right lady in 1911 and on the Admissions register.

The links I posted gave some idea of what things might have been like there at the time, and photos of the buildings etc, though your friend may not be interested in that sort of thing.

EDIT: I suppose there's always the chance that if Emma were taken ill with some other illness etc she might have been transferred to some other type of hospital, but that does not seem to be reflected in the discharge records.

The sad thing is that so many people admitted to asylums at that time suffered from conditions that would be treatable today.

thank you all

now trying to find the husband of emma's death arthur booth my friend said her mother did not know when he died i think he did not go far from the eastend area

Did you mean Alfred Booth?


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Age might be a little out on this one, but it did vary a little in the censuses for him anyway.

He was in Shoreditch on the 1901 and 1911 censuses.

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Deaths Jun 1932 Booth Alfred 66 Shoreditch 1c 57

thank you that must be him friend said he died before she was born and her birth was 1938