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Re: Why This Board Was Created

Posted: 6 Mar 2011 1:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
Would you mind sharing that contact information? My grandmother died in a PA asylum in 1963 and I would love to learn anything about why she ended up there.

Re: Why This Board Was Created

Posted: 4 Jul 2012 2:54PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am not sure if this board is still being followed, but I have to at least try. My grandmother, Eliza Carr(nee Cooper) was placed in the Hudson River State Hospital sometime after 1920. The 3 children were placed in orphanages, one of them being my mother. States that she was married in the 1930 census, while in the State Hospital and I know she was still alive in the 50's, as I was taken there to see her once. No record of her in the 1940 census. No record of death. No positive record of her husband, but may have been a boarder. The 3 children were reconnected in adult life and I did have contact with them, but no one mentioned anything about their parents and they are all deceased at this time. Any help out there please ? Thank you so much in advance

Re: Why This Board Was Created

Posted: 7 May 2013 4:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Wyrick Dick
This is good to know because I am trying to located my great grandmother who was admitted in Eastern State Mental Institution in Oklahoma. Some time after 1914. I have contacted them and they tell me that they can't by law give me anything due to state and federal laws unless I can prove by documentation that through court order that I have provided care to my Great Grandma and or am a responsible adult who provided care for her. Other then my father I am next in line to her living relatives so the people that were able to care for her are no longer living.

Along with that statement from the institution was the statement that she doesn't see why I would want this information and even if they did have it, it is told old and probably can't see anything on it. I am very frustrated at her lack of compassion to those of us who care about our ancestry and her unwillingness to help at all in anyway shape or form. I messaged the Oklahoma Bar Association to find out the laws on this matter and they have yet to message me back.

I am not sure where to go from her because I only know of her name Minnie Wyrick and her married last name of Dick and that per census she was born in Oklahoma and her mother was from Missouri. She was born some time in the 1880's but that is all I know.

Re: Why This Board Was Created

Posted: 10 Feb 2015 9:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
I'm not sure how to get the actual records - or if they even exist any longer - but if you think that the person died at Overbrook, you can contact the Township of Cedar Grove to get the death certificate - that way you can at least get the cause of death and where they're buried.

You just have to fill out a non-genealogical request form and send a copy of your ID, a $10 check and provide proof of relation (no extra charge): http://www.cedargrovenj.org/site/index.php/municipal-service...

It takes about 1-2 weeks to get it.

Re:Powick Asylum, Worcester England- My Gran Elsie May Lowbridge

Posted: 23 May 2015 2:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Pauline,

Have you had any luck finding your Gran?

The hospital had its own burial ground, but this stopped being used in 1947 after this burials were at Astwood Road & St John's cemetery or their own parishes.

Best wishes
Marie

Re: Why This Board Was Created

Posted: 24 May 2015 4:10AM GMT
Classification: Query
I have found that when looking for information on institutions that no longer exist, sometimes the best way to get information or where to go to get said info is to go to the library and or museum that is in that town, providing that the library has been there since the institution was. I also have in the past contacted newspapers that were around at the same time the institution was. Beings that it has only been 47 years they may not give you anything till 75 years pass. If there was law suits then everything could be sealed... if that is the case as such in my case... then you won't ever find out.

Re:Powick Asylum, Worcester England- My Gran Elsie May Lowbridge

Posted: 28 May 2015 2:06PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank Marie

I have tried Astwood & St Johns but thanks so much for getting in touch. Will keep searching

best regards
Pauline
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