Scope and Content
Notices of Admission of Pauper Patients with medical certificate and 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, whether deranged before, and where confined.
Also includes some medical certificates, which do give a possible cause for lunacy.
1. Charles Harpur, carpenter of Buckden, Huntingdonshire
2. John Green, labourer of Great Catworth, Huntingdonshire
3. Winifred Furniss, of Hail Weston, Huntingdonshire, epileptic
4. George Robson, labourer of Great Catworth, Huntingdonshire
5. Samuel Watts, shoemaker of Silsoe
6. Mary Taylor, of Soulbury. Buckinghamshire
7. Celia Killey, of Bushey, Hertfordshire
8. Jonathan Patterson of Great Gransden, Huntingsonshire
9. James Spicer of Great Cheshill, Essex, possible cause given as "religious fears".
10. Thomas Stringer, labourer of Great Catworth, Huntingdonshire
11. Edward Woodhouse, labourer of Widford, Hertfordshire
12. William Bladon, butcher of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
13. Mary Tompkins, widow of a publican, of Hockliffe
14. Thomas Ostler, labourer of Sundon
15. Ann Cole of Dunstable
16. William McKave, prisoner of Bedford Gaol. Includes a royal warrant authorising the transfer of William to the lunatic asylum.
17. Mary Barnes of Maulden. Note to say previously discharged from the asylum in 1840.
18. William Ellson, labourer of Wymington (Wellingborough Poor Law Union)
19. James Abbee, brickmaker of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, epileptic
20. Martha Hudson of Ware, Hertfordshire
21. John Brown, labourer of Hitchin, Hertfordshire
22. George Huckle, labourer of Thurleigh and Bedford town
23. William Lord, labourer's son of Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire
24. John Hughs Bradbury, shoemaker of Tring, Hertfordshire
25. William Russell, carpenter of St Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire
26. Sophia York, lacemaker of St Paul's Bedford
27. Lucy Woodcraft of Haynes
28. John Goss, Hawker of Clophill
29. Thomas Goodman of Cranfield
30. John Mackerness, carpenter of Luton
31. Frances Hilliard, of Somersham, Huntingdonshire
32. Ann Bullimore of Huntingdon
33. Sarah Macer, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, epileptic
34. Frederick Clark, miller of Hitchin
35. William Pickett, labourer of St Paul's Warden, Hertfordshire
36. Sarah Whitney of Hitchin, Hertfordshire
37. Thomas Harewood, shoemaker of St Paul's, Bedford
38. Thomas Bartle, labourer of Biggleswade
39. James Woodward of Wheathamstead, Hertfordshire
40. Charles Farr, labourer of Luton
41. Charlotte Bygrave of Little Amwell, Hertfordshire
42. John Rumney of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, inmate of workhouse.
43. Martha Fitzjohn of Yardley, Hertfordshire
44. Ann Lowe of Sundon
45. Thomas Sheppard of St Paul's, Bedford, but a note on the form states that when he was found "wandering" in Salford he gave several names and mentioned several former places of abode, including Stagsden, Evershott and Bedford.
46. Charles Bouttle, labourer of Stanstead, Hertfordshire
47. Mary Wise, of Alconbury, Huntingdonshire
48. Mary Ann Ginn, labourer of Swineshead
49. Sarah Ship, widow of Standon, Hertfordshire
50. Tedhanar Webb, order of discharge from Whitehall authorising release of this woman from the asylum, having been confined by warrant in 1845.
51. Mary Hartwell, housekeeper of Stevington
52. John Carrington of Biggleswade, royal warrant authorising his transfer from Bedford Gaol to the asylum.
53. Susannah Brown of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
54. Mary Stanton, washerwoman of St Peter's, Bedford
55. Samuel Teasdell of Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, "cause of insanity from drink, delusion, with regard to property, homicidal intentions - has scarcely slept for the last 3 months"
56. Samuel Lumbers, labourer of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire
57. George Mitchell, prisoner, royal warrant for his reception at the asylum.
58. Seth Lofthouse, vagrant in the House of Correction, royal warrant for his reception at the asylum.
59. Mary Stapleton of St Mary's, Bedford
60. Mary Ann Gibbs of Hertfordshire