Genealogy Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

London Lunatic Asylum/Wandworth and Clapham Union

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Mad Alice

Mad Alice Report 29 Nov 2004 22:54

Does anyone have any details for this - where it was or where I might find the records for it? My gg grandfather was there for 1901 census. Tried to find details of address from census but it is such a long document -no luck. It just says London county luna tic asylum. In 1891 he was listed at Wandworth and Clapham Union Infirmary as a lunatic. Does anyone know where this was and if the building is still standing or where i may find records? He was a paperhanger/decorator - does anyone know if the materials that were used during those days could have been responsible for his illness? Alice

Unknown

Unknown Report 29 Nov 2004 23:03

Found this by googling The building you saw is almost certainly the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary which is at the bottom of Usk Road where it joins St Johns Hill. The building is now St Johns Hospital. The Inforimary was opened in 1870 and passed through various administrations before passing to the NHS in 1948.

Peter

Peter Report 29 Nov 2004 23:05

There was Lead in paint, this could affect the mind. There was also a lot of other thing used that we would not dream about useing to day. So there is a posabilaty that his job was the resson he was there.

Unknown

Unknown Report 29 Nov 2004 23:05

It seems records relating to the Infirmary are now in the London Metropolitan Archives. nell

Mad Alice

Mad Alice Report 29 Nov 2004 23:15

Thank you both for your help. will have to investigate records further. Alice

Bob

Bob Report 30 Nov 2004 06:42

try this link for a list of, and sometimes further information on, ASYLUMS in the 1901 census: http://homepage.ntlworld(.)com/jeffery.knaggs/Instuts.html for background info. try: the Rosbrett Institution Site: http://www.institutions.org.uk/ and the Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals at: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm hope this helps.

Richard in Perth

Richard in Perth Report 30 Nov 2004 07:08

This site includes some info & pictures of Wandsworth & Clapham Union: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ Apparently, some records are held at the Battersea library: Wandsworth Local History Service Battersea Library 265 Lavender Hill SWll lJB

Mad Alice

Mad Alice Report 30 Nov 2004 07:48

Thank you all for your help. Alice