Reference
LBC5/1
Title
Bundle of certificates and warrants
Date free text
1837
Production date
From: 1837 To: 1837
Admin/biog history
Reason for entry into asylum is in quotation marks as given on the certificate
Scope and Content
Medical Certificate with Magistrate's warrant with answers to the following queries: Age of patient, married or single, occupation, how long afflicted, probable cause of derangement, if hereditary, any lucid intervals, and of what duration, if subject to fits, if dangerous to self or others, method used for recovery, habits of life, to what diseases subject, ever deranged before, and where confined.
1. Charlotte Covington of Bedford - "disease of the brain"
2. James Biggs of Bedford - "excessive drinking"
3. Elizabeth Battams of Offley - "disappointment in love"
4. John Barnes of Potton
5. Sarah Budd of Hemel Hempstead - "hysteria"
6. Alice Brandram of Bedford
7. Caroline Barker of Hitchin
8. Thomas Linnell of Northampton - "uncertain"
9. John Crossley of Potters Pury - "unknown"
10. Mary Godfrey of Shefford - "sudden change of constitution"
11. William Tyson of Langford
12. Sarah Dearman of Bovington
13. Edward Coleman of Toddington - "uncertain"
14. Ann Brown of Chenies
15. Mary Stratford of Preston Capes - "cannot say"
16. Joseph Orton of Great Paxton
17. Charles Bailey of Northampton - "cannot say"
18. Sarah Hillyard of Great Barford - "mental predisposition"
19. Sarah Cox of Prytchley - "unknown"
20. Thomas Wilson of St Albans
21. Thomas Goodman of St Albans
22. Robert Lewin of St Albans
23. Mary Ann Morbay of St Albans
24. Mary Wakes of St Albans
25. Susan Lucas of St Albans
26. Mary Cordwell of St Albans
27. Susannah Adams of St Albans
28. James Vyse of North Mimms - "hereditary"
29. Harriet Cooke of Hatfield - "not known"
30. Edward Nicholls of Little Houghton
31. Thomas Gurney of Towcester - "pecuniary excitement"
32. William Wish of Codicot - "domestic calamities"
33. Sarah Gates of Puttenham - "fever"
34. Sarah Townsend of West Haddon - "jealousy"
35. Sarah Simpson of Wilden - "unknown"
36. Sarah Toseland of Isham
37. James Biggs of Humbershoe - "effects of liquor"
38. Francis Harrowell of Whipsnade - "blows on the head"
39. Charlotte Warren of Stoke Hammond - "death of her mother"
40. George Martin a criminal lunatic from St Albans Gaol
41. Ann Fowler of Aldenham - "not known"
42. Phoebe Badnall of Watford - "not known"
43. Edward Brown Theobold - "not known"
44. Sarah Tugwood of Dunstable - "said to be hereditary"
45. Charles Hull of Risely - "hereditary"
46. Stephen Furnice of Dodford - "fever"
47. Samuel Hales of Hertfordshire
48. John Bird of Watford
49. Thomas Smart of Moulton
50. John Cook of Hertfordshire - "epilepsia"
51. Sarah Joyce of Huntingdonshire
52. James Yarrow of Warden - "hereditary"
53. William Bradshaw of Hemel Hempstead - "not known"
54. Mary Slinn of Northampton - "irregular living"
55. Albert Butterfield of Great Berkhamstead - "epilepsy"
56. Richard Hewitt of Huntingdonshire
57. George Carrington of Biggleswade - "hereditary"
58. Robert Hammond of Wisbech - "intemperance"
59. Joseph Horne of Bozeat - "irritable temper"
60. Robert Mayes of Newton Bromshold - "unknown"
61. John Taylor of Cambridge - "fits"
62. Joseph Elbourne of St Albans - "disease of the brain"
63. Mary Eaton of Lowick
64. John Baker of Cambridgeshire - "fits"
65. Charles Clarke of Northampton - "unknown"
66. Maria Wood of Great Billing
67. Elizabeth Key of Rugbrook - "fear"
68. John Place of Wisbech - "brain fever"
69. Sarah Sutton of Huntingdon - "unknown"
70. Elizabeth Russell of Howe - "hereditary"
71. Mary Hyde of Norton
72. Thomas Chambers of Raunds - "unknown"
73. Richard Sleath of Stagsden
74. William Hill of Royston
75. John Townsend of Cambridgeshire - "mistaken notion on the subject of religion"
76. Robert Osborne of Pulloxhill
77. Sarah Nicholas of Kempton
78. Maria Elton of Hardingstone - "unknown"
79. Thomas Wallis of Standon - "constitution"
80. Samuel Lucas of Thrapston
81. Charlotte Wright of Warden
82. Elizabeth Dayton of St Albans
83. Stephen Woodcock of St Albans
84. Susannah Hemming of St Albans
85. Mary Austin of Huntingdon - "uterine derangement"
Level of description
file