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Death in a Mental Hospital

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Linda

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?

Linda

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.

Thanks very much.

Linda

Bernadette

Bernadette Report 30 Oct 2007 16:21

More Information Linda,

View Record Name Year of Registration Quarter of Registration Spouse's Surname District County View Image

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John Shaw Bull 1895 Apr-May-Jun Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934) Lancashire
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Annie Campbell 1895 Apr-May-Jun Barton Upon Irwell (1850-1934) Lancashire

There is a Annie Bull died in 1930 2nd quarter in Birmingham N aged 64, could this be her?
Or
Annie M Bull died in 1932 3rd quarter in E Preston, aged 60

Bernadette

Bernadette

Bernadette Report 30 Oct 2007 15:56

Hi Linda, The following may be useful,

about Annie Bull
Name: Annie Bull
Age: 27
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: John S
Gender: Female
Where born: Wexford, Ireland

Civil Parish: Eccles
Ecclesiastical parish: Eccles St Andrew
Town: Monton
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Barton upon Irwell
Sub-registration district: Barton
ED, institution, or vessel: 5
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 30
Household Members: Name Age
Annie Bull 27
Elizabeth Bull 1
John S Bull 27
Mary A Bull 4
Norah Bull 9 months


if you would like a copy of the original image you will need to contact me privately with your email address. I'll keep searching the death records.

Regards,
Bernadette

was plain ann now annielaurie

was plain ann now annielaurie Report 30 Oct 2007 15:53

When was your Grandmother born? You've put 1996!

Linda

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.

Can anyone suggest how I can find the records as I have done lots of searches on her name in the Death records for the 1930s

Linda