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Death in a Mental Hospital
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Linda | Report | 30 Oct 2007 15:48 |
My great grandmother, Annie Bull was taken to a Mental Assylum somewhere in Manchester following a breakdown, I think due to marital problems and the death of an infant daughter in the early 1900s. The family lived in Eccles, Manchester at the time. My grandmother, Mary Agnes Bull was born in 1996 and my aunt thinks she was 9 when her mother was taken away. It was quite tragic because she did get better and was taken on as a seamstress for the rest of her life and we think she died aged 64. She had nowhere else to go when she recovered and her daughters were sent to a Convent and her husband, John Bull took up with another woman. |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 30 Oct 2007 15:53 |
When was your Grandmother born? You've put 1996! |
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Bernadette | Report | 30 Oct 2007 15:56 |
Hi Linda, The following may be useful, |
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Bernadette | Report | 30 Oct 2007 16:21 |
More Information Linda, |
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Linda | Report | 30 Oct 2007 19:13 |
Thank you so much. My Grandmother was born in 1896 (not 1996 - typo!) and the information from Bernadette has been spot on and I have contacted her. |
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Linda | Report | 31 Oct 2007 10:09 |
I've just read that people in Assylums were often only recorded by their initials (one of the dehumanising processes I expect!) Does anyone know where I can find a list of Mental Institutions in the early 1900s in Lancashire? |