retchford 0 Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 Hello Listers I have a Death certificate of a lady ( I think is related to be confirmed) Ann RETCHFORD died in 28 May 1843, On the certificate This Lunatic Asylum was in the Registration District of RADFORD in the Sub district of Snenton. Thomas POWELL was the occupier of this place. Can anyone help out on any info that maybe available on her and the Asylum. Thank you ! Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 The two places mentioned are actually a couple of miles apart...( Radford...Sneinton) We on here can help with some local knowledge but some of your requests for information can be dredged from websites that require payment for information.You can find these on your own computer and will have to dig information yourself. Mick2me... might be able to suggest one or two routes to take. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
retchford 0 Posted July 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 The two places mentioned are actually a couple of miles apart...( Radford...Sneinton) We on here can help with some local knowledge but some of your requests for information can be dredged from websites that require payment for information.You can find these on your own computer and will have to dig information yourself. Mick2me... might be able to suggest one or two routes to take. Thats not a problem ..I am open to suggestions!! What local knowledge do you have ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 DO NOT JOIN ANCESTRY.COM till I send you information. The above and other research sites give you information that members here will be able to expand on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 Thats not a problem ..I am open to suggestions!! What local knowledge do you have ? You're reading it...:tongue: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 4, 2010 Report Share Posted July 4, 2010 Here is a snippet about the County Lunatic Asylum which was on Carlton Road where King Edward Park is now. County Lunatic Asylum Quote Link to post Share on other sites
annswabey 599 Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 More information about the Asylum here, with an indication of available records which are held at Nottingham Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2517&page=78 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 Thanks for that Ann Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 There was also 'Mapperley Madhouse' as it was known locally, that only closed a few years ago.........or is it still open? I used to do contract work in a few of these places in the 70's, around Mansfield, Derby, Stoke, Ashbourne area we must have had our fare share of cranially challenged beings, lots of the inmates wore protective helmets, like Rugby headgear, looked like an 'allblacks' training session when they were let out on sunny days............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tony 27 Posted July 5, 2010 Report Share Posted July 5, 2010 Mapperley Hospital closed down in 1994. I worked there for two years doing psychiatry. St Anns Hospital at Thorneywood Mount has also closed but some mental health services are based there including child psychiatry. Last February I visited the county archives to do some research on the old hospital. The 'female' side of the hospital still exists but is now the mental health head quarters-( PCT ) and houses the teaching department. The 'male' side is flats. The old hospital chapel still exsists but deconsecrated. There is, where the old sports ground used to be, a new mental health unit-Wells Road Centre. When the hospital closed some patients were transferred to Highbury Hospital. It was a very fascinating place in its hay day. The records at the county archives were very interesting. Kind regards Tony 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
retchford 0 Posted July 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2010 More information about the Asylum here, with an indication of available records which are held at Nottingham Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2517&page=78 Hello I have been in touch with them and they replied and they do have some info of interest.. so will follow it through! Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 6, 2010 Report Share Posted July 6, 2010 Please Post information here Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
romany_star 0 Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 I was told the Nottingham records office holds the records. My ancestors brother Alexander Mullen/McMullen died here in 1873. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Reads like a list of potential heavy metal band names. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,138 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Looks like most of us would be inside! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,160 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Definatly Phil.............I counted 11 for myself...............but never fell off a Horse in the War.............lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 All except 4...not quite reached that certifiable state yet!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 I'm saying nothing! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 #16 Give it time, Benj! You're only young yet! Like to list the 11 relevant categories? I'm sure we'd all love to know! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,467 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 There's an existing thread about Sneinton Asylum http://nottstalgia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12756 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,307 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 My paternal great grandmother died in Bagthorpe, which I think was on the site of Highbury hospital, in 1930, suffering from dementia. Great grandma gave birth to 12 children, 6 of whom died as babies. Of the other six children, one died of a brain tumour as a 14 year old and the youngest was blown to pieces by a shell on the battlefields of the First World War. Is it any wonder she was a bit deranged? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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