Supex House

[LeeanneB]

Hi there,

I have found an image of a register on Ancestry.com in the UK, Lunacy Patients Admission Registers, 1846-1912 database. On this image it shows that my ancestor was admitted to Supex House for the period 10 Nov 1856 - 10 Jun 1857.

I would obviously like to find out what he was there for, but no matter how many times, or in what variation, I Google Supex House, I just cannot find it. I only know from the register image that it was in the UK somewhere.

Does anyone know what became of Supex House?

[Pam Downes]

Supex doesn't sound like a word that would be around in 1856, but back in those days there was a way of writing double-s so that it looked like the letter P. So should the word perhaps be Sussex?

If you give us the name of the person we can look at the actual record ourselves and perhaps advise a little further.

Pam

[Pam Downes]

Should have also asked where this person was born, where they lived in the 1851/1861 census, basic sort of important details like that.

Pam

[LeeanneB]

Oh you know what, I think you are right!!

I assumed Supex because that is what is transcribed on Ancestry, that will teach me to look twice at the actual record :-)

The person is John Watts Ebden - this is the link to the image:

"https://
search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=UKLunPatAdmReg&gss=sfs28_ms_db&new=1&ra nk=1&msT=1&gsln=Ebden&_81004263__int=10&_81004262_ _int=11&_81004261__int=1856&MSAV=0&uidh=6cy"]https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=UKLunPatAdmReg&gss=sfs28_ms_db&new=1&ra nk=1&msT=1&gsln=Ebden&_81004263__int=10&_81004262_ _int=11&_81004261__int=1856&MSAV=0&uidh=6cy

[Pam Downes]

Oh you know what, I think you are right!!

I assumed Supex because that is what is transcribed on Ancestry, that will teach me to look twice at the actual record :-)

The person is John Watts Ebden - this is the link to the image:

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/s...SAV=0&uidh=6cy

Ancestry's transcriptions frequently leave a lot to be desired.
The entry does indeed say Sussex House.

Doesn't help any further with the 'where was it' question, but as it's in the section headed 'Metropolitan licensed houses' and most of the other places listed have London names (e.g. Camberwell) it may have been London.
I'll dig a little more.

Pam

[LeeanneB]

It seems Sussex House no longer exists - apparently Charing Cross Hospital now stands at the site where Sussex House used to be.

https://books.google.co.za/books?id=...Asylum&f=false

[Pam Downes]

It seems Sussex House no longer exists - apparently Charing Cross Hospital now stands at the site where Sussex House used to be.

https://books.google.co.za/books?id=...Asylum&f=false

Brilliant find!
I'll stop looking.

Pam

[LeeanneB]

Thanks so much for your help! I'd still be searching for a non-existent Supex House otherwise

[Peter Goodey]

Some references on this page to Sussex House said to have been in Hammersmith, apparently on Fulham Road

https://www.studymore.org.uk/3_06.htm#Winslow

(use page search for Sussex House)

There's a link to a map...

https://www.motco.com/map/81006/Serie...=734&x=11&y=11

[Pam Downes]

Some references on this page to Sussex House said to have been in Hammersmith, apparently on Fulham Road

https://www.studymore.org.uk/3_06.htm#Winslow

(use page search for Sussex House)

There's a link to a map...

https://www.motco.com/map/81006/Serie...=734&x=11&y=11

I know you're extremely good at finding stuff that most of us have never heard of Peter, but
that first link definitely deserves a

Pam