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Tony Walker
30-09-2006, 7:52 PM
Has anybody got any idea how to find out how one of my relatives was admitted to the Newcastle city lunatic asylum (sometimes called Coxlodge) in the Castle Ward district of Newcastle.

Since he died there the death cert may answer a few questions, but I would really like to find out how and why he was there.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Tony

Colin Moretti
30-09-2006, 10:04 PM
Hello Tony

You can see what hospital records survive, and their location, in the Hospital Database here: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=1267&hospital=Newcastle+upon+Tyne+Borough+Lunatic+Asylu m+&town=&searchdatabase.x=0&searchdatabase.y=0 (I think I've the right hospital, if not try further searches there).

Patient records will be subject to a 100 year closure.

Colin

Tony Walker
01-10-2006, 10:50 AM
Colin,

Many, many thanks!

It led me straight to what I wanted. It's much appreciated - I couldn't see the wood for the trees!!!!

Regards

Tony

Tony Walker
05-10-2006, 8:09 PM
Thanks Colin!

And thanks to the Tyne & Wear Archive Service. I now know everything - plus next time I travel north to do some record office research, I can visit and get the entire "medical" record!!

Now need to do something similar with his brother, who was in prison in newcastle but I can't find those records now!!!

Ho Hum!

NJLois
06-03-2016, 9:35 PM
My grandmother was also in that facility. One wonders how cavalierly it was decided that people needed to be interred in these facilities. I know eventually my grandmother suffered from encephalitis which would explain the need for institutionalizing. It's just very sad. She gave birth to my mother (out of wedlock) and returned home, but was institutionalized a few years later and during that time, conceived and gave birth to another child, my aunt. Somehow, they were reunited at a future date and were raised in St. Joseph's (a poor school I believe). I had to research all of this information, my mother never (ever) spoke of those days.