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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Re: adddress question
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:50:56 +0100
In-Reply-To: <3D395988.3B15EFA4@ff.lakeheadu.ca>


In message <>, marjorie stintzi
<> writes
>I am not surprised at this. My great uncle was a Home Child and had been abused
>by
>whoever had him in care. My mother also believes he was an epileptic. He died
>in
>1917. I feel even sadder for him and his very short sad life but am thankful
>for your
>help and this news. Is there any way to find out the reason he was in there or
>is it
>too recent?
Mental Hospital case books are normally closed for 100 years. However,
it is sometimes possible for the proven next of kin to be given
information in records later than this, but you do have to apply to the
current holder - probably local Archives, possibly hospital's own
archives. Locating what exists and where is done through the
www.hmc.gov.uk/hospitals site (refining down either by place or actual
name of hospital

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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