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Fulbourn mental facility

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Susan Shingler

Susan Shingler Report 20 Nov 2007 20:06

Hi, can anyone help me. I have a death cert for a relative that says he died at the villa fulbourn in 1943. I live overseas so I don't know the area..where would he be buried nearby if no relative claimed him.

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 20 Nov 2007 20:25

Susan

I can't answer your question but if it is Fulbourn Hospital Cambridgeshire then there is a whole book about the history of the facility on the net. Apologies if you have already seen this but maybe there might be a mention in it of how deaths were dealt with.

http://www.human-nature.com/free-associations/clark/

Chris

Susan Shingler

Susan Shingler Report 20 Nov 2007 20:46

Thanks Chris for your quick reply, I had a read a bit of Clarks story. Epilepsy ran in the family and it seems he may have been in one of the labouring gangs. I found plenty of information about Dr Thomas who was the informant on the death certificate. I hope to find a cemetery nearby.

Jane in the Highlands

Jane in the Highlands Report 20 Nov 2007 22:55

Hi Susan

I have Fulbourn rellies, though not in the hospital. There is deffinately a cemetry and church yard in the village, but I don't know if the hospital had its own burial ground.

Was the family in the village for a while? I have the Fulbourn Chronicles, available from CFHS, which are brilliant, someone went through the local paper and put all the Fulbourn mentions into four books, they are so interesting. Happy to look and see if any of your family are mentioned.

And if you have Google Earth, Fulbourn comes up really clearly, enough to get a good look round.

Sorry can't be much help with your original question though!
Jane

Jackie

Jackie Report 21 Nov 2007 00:20

Hi Susan

I have a friend who used to work at Fulbourn hospital, I will ask tomorrow for info

Dee x

Susan Shingler

Susan Shingler Report 21 Nov 2007 00:33

Hi Jane,
Thanks so much. I live in New Zealand and checking the rellies out is a bit hard. My relatives name was Bernard Shingler. He was born in Staffordshire but most of his siblings died in the 1920's his sister moved to coventry and I don't know when he would have gone into Fulbourn. He was 60 when he died in 1943 and I don't know if he had any family as he was in prison earlier in his life and I don't know what was wrong with him. Any information would be great...Thanks

MaryfromItaly

MaryfromItaly Report 21 Nov 2007 04:12

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/4_13_TA.htm
http://tinyurl.com/29f3x8
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/searches/locresult_details.asp?LR=10

Jackie

Jackie Report 21 Nov 2007 10:15

Hi Susan

My friend says that Fulbourn hospital did have it's own cemetery but not sure when it was last used. Anyone who died at the hospital with no relatives might have gone to a paupers grave at Cambridge City cemetery, unless money was left for that purpose. You could try and write to Ros Nightingale at the Medical Records Dept at Fulbourn, she may help but you might have to supply info because of data protection.

Regards
Dee x

Jane in the Highlands

Jane in the Highlands Report 21 Nov 2007 13:55

Hi Susan,

Sorry but he dosn't get a mention in any of the Fulbourn Chronicles, but from what you said, he didn't belong to the village so may not have been there long.

All the best,
Jane

Susan Shingler

Susan Shingler Report 21 Nov 2007 17:20

Thanks Jane for looking. I suspected as much as he was from out of town, maybe he went straight from jail to Fulbourn and never lived a "normal" life.

Susan Shingler

Susan Shingler Report 21 Nov 2007 17:31

Hi Dee

Thanks so much for your time and effort.

Susan Shingler

Susan Shingler Report 3 Dec 2007 22:01

Yipee, have just found him!!! He was buried in the Asylum cemetery on 8 dec 1943.
It's nice to have a positive outcome.

Jackie

Jackie Report 3 Dec 2007 22:03

Well done!

Dee x