• Reference
    LBC5/3
  • Title
    Bundle of certificates and warrants
  • Date free text
    1839
  • Production date
    From: 1839 To: 1839
  • 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. Esther Pedder, straw plaiter of Westoning - "puerperal mania" 2. Sarah Wilderspin of Cambridge 3. Hannah Sell of Anstey 4. Mary Fowler of Roxton - "after confinement" 5. Joseph Sharpe, labourer of Luton 6. James Dollimore of Hitchin 7. Jemima Nicholls of Northaw - "affliction" 8. John Lumpkin, tanner of Wisbech - "ill treatment" 9. John Yates, labourer of Ely - "not known" 10. Mary Beale, cook of Wisbech 11. Elizabeth King, widow of Southoe 12. William Thorley, labourer of Renhold - "melancholic temperment" 13. Zachariah Graves, labourer of Stotfold 14. Thomas Blackburn of Repton Abbots - "epileptic fits" 15. William Pryer of Offley - "constipation" 16. William Smith, labourer of Chatteris - disappointment & drunkenness" 17. Robert Clarke, cook of Hoddesdon - "intoxicating liquor" 18. Sarah Harbourn, servant of St Alban's - "fever" 19. James Culver of Ware 20. Solomon Parsons, labourer of Luton - "drinking and natural stubbornness" 21. William Cartwright, labourer of Bourn - "hereditary" 22. Elizabeth Starr of Baldock - "epilepsy" 23. Phoebe Jiggins of Barnwell 24. Mary Bass of Buckden 25. Esther Odell, lacemaker of Blunham - "hereditary" 26. Elizabeth Robinson of Cambridgeshire 27. Thomas Yaxley, printer of Cambridge - "love" 28. Michael Monk, painters labourer of Hitchin 29. Sarah Tucks, college servant of Cambridge - "lactation" 30. Joseph Puttrell, wine merchant of Cambridge - "excess in drinking" 31. Mary Cross of Kimbolton 32. William Poole, shoemaker of St Paul, Bedford 33. Catherine Franklin of Eynesbury - "mental anxiety" 34. Joseph Godfrey, labourer of Luton 35. Jane Nicholls, lacemaker of Emberton 36. Alice Davies, plaiter of Flamstead 37. Jacob Julius Harrison, jeweller of Wisbech - "religion" 38. Ellen Arnold, inmate of workhouse of Huntingdon 39. Robert Gostelow, shoemaker of Dunstable - "supposed to be hereditary" 40. Sarah Willshire of Bassingbourne 41. John Townsend of Landbeach 42. John King Watts, labourer of Upton 43. Elizabeth Sale of Sandon 44. Samuel Ship, shoemaker of Little Haddenham - "scrophula" 45. Thomas Goodman of Eaton Bray - "hereditary" 46. Samuel Trolly, brickmaker of St Paul's, Bedford - "mental distress" 47. Elizabeth Brown of Bassingbourne 48. Edward Horrell, labourer of Renhold 49. Joseph Browne of North Mimms - "affliction" 50. Mary Hootton, lacemaker of Marston Moretaine 51. John Ealing, bricklayer of Watford 52. Mary Richardson, washer woman of Ivinghoe - "death of her son" 53. Edward Geeson, agricultural labourer of Huntingdon 54. James Morrison of House of Correction, Bedford 55. Mary Morris, sewer of Caddington - "hereditary" 56. Jacob Reid, labourer of Blunham - "intemperance" 57. William Briggs, carpenter of St Ives - "unknown" 58. Zachariah Barr, labourer of Kings Langley - "diseased brain" 59. Ann Childs, pauper of Madingley 60. Sarah Hickson of Hatfield 61. Elizabeth Fordham of Biggleswade - "hereditary" 62. Rebecca Pryor of Hemel Hempstead 63. John Kimpton, labourer of Papworth 64. James Puddephatt, bricklayer of Hemel Hempstead - "diseased brain" 65. Hannah Sabley of Southill - "protracted illness and debility" 66. Benjamin Muncey of Stevenage 67. Hannah Hogg of Little Brickhill 68. John Fox, labourer of Huntingdon - "not obvious" 69. John Bradbury, shoemaker of Tring 70. Thomas Field of Hertford - "not known" 71. Charles Reynolds, gardener of Bedford - "unknown" 72. Thomas Beard, blacksmith of Eaton Socon 73. Ann Ward of Sandy
  • Level of description
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