Reference
LBC4/3
Title
Bundle of certificates and warrants
Date free text
1835
Production date
From: 1835 To: 1835
Admin/biog history
Reason for entry into asylum is in quotation marks as given on the certificate
Scope and Content
Each certificate details name, age, cause, length of afflication, whether hereditary, method of recovery, habits of life, general health and whether committed to an asylum before.
1. Thomas Jones of Northampton - "unknown"
2. Mary Newberry of Kempston - "unknown"
3. Sarah Adams of North Crawley
4. Samuel Buckby of Newport Pagnell - "disordered system"
5. Emma Hollis of Higham Ferris - "fear of approaching labour"
6. Annie Mary Wilson of Huntingdon
7. Samuel Sandon of Northill - "not known"
8. Susan Underwood of Peterborough
9. Sarah Stanford of Wilshamstead - "unknown"
10. Maria Brain of Bedford - "unknown"
11. Mary Splevin of Cardington
12. Marianne Phillips of Bedford - "supposed hereditary"
13. Thomas Wiggins of Doddington -"from an accident"
14. James Yarrow of Warden
15. Samuel King of Luton - "love affair"
16. Elizabeth Rowe of Irthlingborough
17. Charles Wootton of Henlow - "irregular habits"
18. Elizabeth Cawley of Huntingdon - "disappointment"
19. John Rolt of Eggington - "no obvious cause"
20. Alfred Stapleton of Old Weston - "unsteady habits"
21. Ann Purser of Leighton Buzzard
22. Elizabeth Dunkley of Wavendon - "not known"
23. Elizabeth Goodman of Great Woolston
24. Maria Bigg of Lidlington
25. James Samuel Hopkins of Lilley
26. Mary White of Peterborough - "bilious fever"
27. Mary Ann Jackson of Huntingdonshire
28. William Newman of Cambridge
29. Mary Willis of Leighton Buzzard
30. Michael Macennely of Bedford
31. Samuel Shrewbury of Northampton
32. George Whitney of Northampton
33. William White of Warden
34. Elizabeth Bigg of Hitchin
35. John Baker of Great Linford - "excessive use of spirits"
36. William Wheaton of Stevington
37. Elizabeth Haselgrove of Luton
38. A woman, dumb, name unknown
39. John Clark of Warboys - "intemperance"
40. John Norris of Ridgmont - "hereditary"
41. Mary Ann Philips of Froxfield - "not known"
42. William Ganes of Hitchin - "cognate"
43. William Cox of Mechbourne
44. John Talbot of Cambridge - "an unusual desire to study"
45. Charles Nottley of Wilshamstead - "not known"
46. Warrant and letter regarding criminal lunatic Charles Pigott
Level of description
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