Reference
LBC6/2
Title
Bundle of certificates and warrants
Date free text
1843
Production date
From: 1843 To: 1843
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. Elizabeth Biggs, charwoman of Kings Langley
2. Mary Ann Gibbs, domestic servant of Watford
3. Henry Hawkins, butcher of Abbotts Langley
4. Margaret Monk, servant of Abbotts Langley
5. Henry Bligh, groom of St Albans - "injury to head"
6. William Smith, labourer of Potsgrove - "epilepsy"
7. Mary Ann Stretton of Cambridge - "epileptic fits"
8. Emma Robinson of St Peter, Bedford
9. Charlotte Simmons of Leighton Buzzard
10. James Bullard, labourer of Luton
11. Joseph Walker of Great Staughton - "drink"
12. Phoebe Ellis of Bassingbourne - "effect of drink"
13. John Crump of Stoke Hammond - "age and decay"
14. Robert Galer of Cambridge
15. Sarah Palmer, servant of Cambridge
16. William Williamson of Great Staughton
17. Eliza Wright of Cambridge - "fever"
18. Sarah Simmons of Chuddington - "hereditary"
19. Thomas Norroway of Elstow - "intemperance"
20. Mary Taylor of Hertford - "undue lactation"
21. John Cherry, labourer of Bedford
22. Robert Allen, publican of Biggleswade
23. Ann Collins of Diddington
24. George Chapman of Kempston
25. Roger Rolfe
26. Charles Palmer - "insane prisoner"
27. Harriet Cooke, servant of Hatfield
28. Ann Jeffs, shopkeeper of Rickmansworth
29. Mary Chennels, labourer of Studham - "not known"
30. Richard Clark of Great Stanmore, labourer - "severe blow to the head"
31. William Arnold, labourer of Hertford
32. Ann Chalkley, servant of Stevenage - "insanity in the family"
33. John Williams
34. Rebecca Crawley of - "lactation"
35. Elizabeth Brotherton of Biggleswade
36. Mary Barber of Hawnes
37. Jane French, lacemaker of Bedford
38. Ann Greg, plaiter of Harpenden - "grief from loss of father"
39. Alfred Robinson, saddler of Watford - "epilepsy"
40. Samuel Bassford alias William Stone
41. Elizabeth Robinson, lacemaker of Ampthill
42. John Smith - "insane prisoner"
43. George Cooper of Cambridge
44. Mary Brown of Bushey - "fits from infancy"
45. Jane Tugwood of Dunstable - "not known"
46. George Waller, labourer of Houghton Regis
47. Mary Purton of of Caddington - "inflammation of the ear passage after use of creasote"
48. William Steward, labourer of Caxton - "unknown"
49. William Hancock, labourer of Fulborne
50. Martha Tucker of Hertfordshire
51. David Nicholls, labourer of Leighton Buzzard
52. John Newitt of Cambridge Gaol
53. John Williams
54. William Branson, labourer of Sundon - "unknown"
55. Thomas Anstie of Bridewell Gaol
56. Samuel Beard of Hemingford Grey
Level of description
file