Genealogy Chat

thanks janet and angie i will give them a try also.

thanks nutty but i have already searched for her death on ancestry and can't seem to find one.

if i have to i will get my nan to ask for the information to be released as they would of been sister in-laws or my mum as Beatrice is her aunt.

try free bmd to find out if she has died. With that name it shouldn't be hard to find. But bmd hasn't got all the records so don't take it for granted.

Also health records have a 100 year closure on them. You can ask for them, but i think you do have to be a relative for them to release anything.

I have asked for records, and they have had to send of to the local health authority where he was held (Lincoln Asylum). He was there in 1911. He was born 1860, but i still have to go through all the channels to get the information, if any at all.
thanks

nudge

I don't think she would have been put in Whipps Cross but just down the road from Whipps there was an asylum called Leytonstone House. If she was mentally handicapped she may have gone there as an adult.

Leytonstone House closed in the eighties and is now a giant Tesco's

thanks kathleen

i was unable to view anything on-line but luckily the records are held at my local library.

all i have to do now i ring tomorrow and make an appointment and hope she's there.

thanks again.

thanks

sounds promising i will check it out. fingers crossed.

rhoda

Don't know if this could be any use, but if you go to the workhouses site at www.workhouses.org and put West Ham into the search box on there, then scroll down the page that comes up until you find a piece about Whipp's Cross Hospital - it sounds as if that could be the sort of place she might have been put into.

At the bottom of the information about West Ham it says where any records can be found.

Sorry if this isn't the right place but thought it might be a starting point.

Kath. x

hi
i just found out from my nan that my grandad had a sister that me and my mum never knew about.

all my nan knew was what my grandad told her after they married.
he told her that he remembers having an older sister called Beatrice hodgson who got run over as a child and had to be put in an home(asylum).he regularly went with his mum to visit her until the second world war started because he was evacuated.he never heard anything else about her after this.

i have found her birth and know she was born 18 dec 1927 west ham,essex. but i can't find anything else on her there seems to be no death or marriage. maybe she is still alive

is there a site where i can check asylum registers for her.
or maybe someone might be able to point me in the right direction of where best to look.

thanks in advance for your help.

rhoda