Scope and Content
These records deal with the transfer of pauper patients, giving: name of patient, sex, age, occupation, marital status, religious persuasion, length of time "insane", whether epileptic, whether suicidal or dangerous to others. Medical certificate included as well as details of expenses due from the Guardians of the Poor of the originating parish. Cause of lunacy is not given as standard.
1. Robert Salmons of Huntingdon, agricultural labourer
2. William Draper of Bedford, draper
3. Mary Draper of Bedford, wife of William Draper
4. Mary Lawrence of Hertford, agricultural labourers wife, "fits of a doubtful character"
5. Jane Brighty of Doddington, seamstress, "religion"
6. Elizabeth Jennings of London, "intemperance"
7. Charles Wiggs of Cheshunt, "intemperance"
8. John Chandler of Leighton Buzzard, labourer, "person of unsound mind"
9. Jacob Groom of Luton, porter of Luton union workhouse, "derangement of general health"
10. Sarah Ashbolt of Fenstanton
11. James Grover of Rickmansworth, Bricklayer, "general mental depression"
12. Sarah Lewis of Hoddesdon, wife of labourer
13. Ann Thrussell of Luton, Dress maker, "Epilepsy"
14. Ann Linfield of Maulden, pauper
15. Sarah Dimmock pf Leighton Buzzard, Pauper
16. Ann Jackson of Barlery, Herts, "a pauper, a cripple, a servant"
17. Sarah Collett of Huntindon, wife of laborer, "sudden excitment, finding a child drown'd"
18. Charlotte Maulden of Godmanchester, Servant, "from an attack of serious apoplexy"
19. Charles Prudden of St Paul Bedford, Laborer, "an injury recieved some years since"
20. Elizabeth Reid of Luton, Bonnet Sewer, "Dissapointment and grief"
21. Charity Conyard of Braughin, Herts, Pauper
22. Elizabeth Wooding of Turvey
23. Ann Smyhte of Saint Ives, Huntingdon, wife of druggist
24. William Balls of Houghton, Agricultural labourer
25. William Smith of Saint Ives, Porter, "Paralysis"
26. Joseph West of Great Gransden, Agricultural laborer
27. James Brand of Great Gransden, Laborer
28. Ann Kingston of Stanground, "Humble condition, living at home", Epilepsy"
29. Eliza Hill of Luton, Bonnet Sewer, "Religious despondency"
30. Sarah Dixie of Eyensbury, lace maker, "Religious fanaticism"
31. Elizabeth Gale of Warden, laborers wife
32. Sarah West of Great Wymondley, laborers widow
33. Eliza Suckling of Ware, widow of a blacksmith, "domestic affliction"
34. William Knapp of Luton, Gardner, "fever"
35. Mary Groom of stopsley, straw plait maker, "hereditary"
36. Joan Webb of Braughin, "Epilepsy"
37. Elizabeth Burton of St Paul, Bedford
38. John Stanley of St Pault, Bedford, Farmer
39. Benjamin Sturgess of Keysoe, Labourer
40. Mary Ann Fowler of Watford, Worked at Crepe Mills in Frome
41. Agnes Brown of Huntingdon
42. John Thomas of Little Stukeley, Shoemaker
43. Simon Cuffley of Sawbridgeworth, Bricklayers labourer
44. John Sunman Austin of St Paul, Bedford, Carpenter, "vanity and a desire of self aggrandizment"
45. Martha Douglas of Harold, labourers wife
46. Catherine Hough of Graveley, Domestic servant, "Pecuniary losses"
47. Elizabeth Patrick of Biggleswade, Bricklayers wife, "Trouble about her children"
48. James Road of Hertford
49. Eliza Page of Amptill, wife of John Page, Labourer
50. James Cox of Great Raveley, Labourer, "attack of fever"
51. Ann Conolly of Turvey
52. Ann Rainsdan of Wheathampstead, "congenital"
53. Mary Hight of Kempston, Dairy Woman
54. John Hyres of Offord D'Arcy, labourer
55.Thomas Spacey of Milton Byrant, labourer
56. Sarah Devon of Chipping Barnet, Labourers wife, "Grief"
57. Thommas Pinney of Kings Langley, Shepperd
58. Mary Scafe of Layston, Shoemakers wife
59. Thomas Fellowes of Hemel Hempstead, Baker
60. William Higby of Watfrod, Silk Throwster
61. Eliza Green of Standon, Servant
62. Thomas Humberstone of Ware, Labourer, "Natural"
63. Elizabeth Smith of Hatfield, Labourers wife, "age"
64. Charlotte Figg of Marsworth, Chairwoman and Platter, "Cessation of Catamenia and Discharge"
65. Elizabeth Bent of Luton, Plaiter,
66. Elizabeth Morton of Kimbolten, Labourers wife, "cancer - attack of fever"
67. Mary Wootton of Henlow, Labourers wife
68. Ann Impey of Luton, Servant, "fever"
69. Martha Graves of Sandon, Wife of aggricultural labourer
70. Naomi Dunham of Luton, Straw Plaiter, "Hereditary"
71. Jospeh Sinfield of Houghton Regis, Agricultural Labourer, "from fever occuring a year ago"
72. Mary Pallett of Hoddesdon, laboourers wife
73. William Negus, Charles Negus, Mary Austin, and Ann Jackson
74. Charles McFarlane of Saint Ives, Shoemaker
75. Sarah Burley of Upper Gravenhurst
76. Thomas Wright
77. Ann Bond of Great Stuckeley and Ellen Arnold of St Benedict, Huntingdon
78. Sarah Rose of Upwood, domestic servant, " loss of her master and disappointed in money expectations"
79. Anonymus male prisoner that refused to give name and had previously been comimtted to Hertford county prison for burglary.
80. Elizabeth Kempster of Leighton Buzzard, labourers wife
81. Levi Hines (or Hindes) of Westoning, "lodging after his Mothers cottage, Gardening and attending to her cows", "Irritation".
82. Alexander Adam of Stevanage, Farm Labourer and Railway Labourer
83. Elizabeth Patrick of Biggleswade, Bricklayers wife
84. Martha Edmond of St Peters parish, wife of agricultural labourer, "Religion"
85. Ann Higgs of Sundon, Plaiter, "Hereditary"
86. Sarah Doughly of Thurleigh, Wife of Labourer
87. John Thomas of Romsey, Cordwainer
88. William Bull of Little Hormead, Farm Labourer
89. Hannah Osborne of St Ives, Servant, "Religious melancholia"
90. Mary Bishop of Ramsey, wife of John Bishop (Waterman)
91. Robert Byers of Rickmansworth, Journeyman Tailor, "Dyspepsia"
92. Mary Ann Wakefield of Bushey Herts, the Daughter of a small shopkeeper
93. James Baker
94. Elizabeth Bull of Little Munden Herts, Labouers wife, "in the present instance, general debility having nursed an infant too long".
95. Keturah Bayford of Ayot Saint Peter, Dress maker, "Religion"
96. George Phillips of Somersham, Labourer, "Epilepsy"
97. Sarah Goodship of Paul's Walden, Labourers Daughter, "Fits from early youth"
98. Emma Robinson of St Pauls
99. Jospeh Woodland of Ridgmont, Labourer
100. Jospeh Walker of Great Staughton, Labourer, "a Tendency to insanity having spoken so before, he has been a drinker" and "Brain fever".
101. Mary Clay of Luton, Sewer
102. William Warner of Sundon, Labourer