Reference
LBC4/4
Title
Bundle of certificates and warrants
Date free text
1836
Production date
From: 1836 To: 1836
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. Joel Summerfield of Wootton
2. Ann Woollard of Cambridge - "hereditary"
3. Elizabeth Ann Rudsdell of Northampton - "pride & ill regulated temper"
4. Frances Duglass of Stevenage - "uncertain"
5. Mary Moulds of Newnham
6. Mary Bates of Lilley - "not known"
7. Rev. Aaron Brown of Maids Morton - "disappointment"
8. William Whatton of Stevington
9. Samuel Mabbutt of Wellingborough - "epilepsy"
10. Elizabeth King of Southoe
11. Laurent Olivier of Clifton - "imbecile from birth"
12. Caroline Barker of Hitchin - "epileptic fits"
13. Philip Partridge of Newport Pagnell - "religious enthusiam"
13. Joseph Horne of Bozeat - "excessive heat upon the brain"
14. Martin Woods of Kemingford Grey - "overexcitement"
15. Sarah Edwards of Shillington - "blow to the head"
16. John Tallant of Little Houghton - "irregular habits"
17. Thomas Hinde of St Paul's, Bedford
18. Edward Nicholls of Little Houghton - "no apparent cause"
19. Jeremiah Skilliter of Cople - "hereditary"
20. Sarah Whitney of Hitchin - "not known"
21. Joseph Lucas Hooton of Kempston - "unknown"
22. Francis Shepherd of Towcester
23. Mary Marks of St Paul's, Bedford - "tumour on the face"
24. Hannah Atkins of Passenham
25. William Branson of Upper Sundon
26. Letitia Hight of St Neots
27. Sarah Fells of Steppingley
28. Hannah Richardson of Goldington - "not known"
29. Joseph Shepherd of Kensworth - "hereditary"
30. Alice Tombs of Wolverton - "grief from abandoment of husband"
31. Martha Harris of St Albans
32. Jonathan Satchell of Scaldwell - "impossible to say"
33. Samuel Field of Luton
34. Mary Mobbs of Daventry - "not known"
35. Joseph Sturman of Chelveston - "epilepsy"
36. George Tarry of Spratton - "excess of drink"
37. Thomas Linsell of Northampton
38. Philip Harrold of Kings Ripton - "unknown"
39. Elizabeth Wagstaff of St Neots
40. Mary Ann Beal of Wisbech - "hypochondriasis"
41. Maria Beales of Brampton - "uterine derangement"
42. William Battison of Brayfield on the Green - "mental excitement"
43. Joseph Cooper of Fenstanton - "being reduced in circumstances"
44. Thomas Selby of Great Houghton
45. James Smith of Floore - "epilepsy"
46. William Sells of Hemel Hempstead - "uncertain"
47. Humphrey Spencer of Great Gaddesden - "not known"
48. Elizabeth Trolly of Baldock - "religious enthusiasm"
49. Martha Stanbridge of Edlesborough - "fear"
50. Elizabeth Sanders of Hemel Hempstead
51. William Battams of Steppingley - "fits"
52. Richard Hensman of St Paul's, Bedford
53. James Bennett of Stevenage - "excitement of brain"
54. Eleanor Prentice of Wing - "cannot say"
55. Maria Finch of Stapleford - "mental"
56. William Ingle of Boxworth - "unknown"
57. John Chrown of Wellingborough
58. Charlotte Thorneycroft of Floore - "perhaps chlorosis"
59. William Cooke of Northampton - "unknown"
60. John Simmons of St Cuthbert's, Bedford
61. Ruth Field of Hitchin - "cause not known"
62. Thomas Walker of Northampton
63. Sarah Dollimore of Warden
64. Susan Burges of Cambridge - "religious enthusiasm"
65. Daniel Markham of Wavendon
66. Samuel Day of Luton - "epilepsy"
67. Ann Stanton of Northampton
68. George Bailey of Eaton Socon - "apoplexy"
69. Eliza Palmer of Bedford - "obstructed catamenia"
70. Catherine Hewitt of Irchester - "childbirth"
71. Ann Dumpleton of Woburn - "not known"
72. John Fossey of Toddington - "from a fall"
73. Charles Beaumont of Buckden - "unknown"
Exent
60 certificates
Level of description
file