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ElizabethHerts
17-08-11, 06:01
I'm trying to find an inmate of the asylum at Devizes.

Here he is in 1901:
1901 Census
ALEXANDER, Walter Thos
DEVIZES, Wiltshire
RG13 piece 1926 folio 158 page 5

He died in 1914.

I'm doing an address search but I can't find the asylum.
In 1901 the address is as follows:
Asylum, Roundway Devizes

There is Asylum Lodge and Asylum Farm Cottage in 1911, but I have lost the asylum and its inmates.
ElizabethHerts
17-08-11, 06:07
This is about the asylum:

http://www.devizesheritage.org.uk/roundway_hospital.html
ElizabethHerts
17-08-11, 06:08
Someone else had the same problem:

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-55516.html

Off to look.
ElizabethHerts
17-08-11, 06:14
Finally, he is under:

A, W T !
scuda
17-08-11, 07:38
Finally, he is under:

A, W T !

Just what I was going to suggest - I've had a couple like that.

scuda
ElizabethHerts
17-08-11, 07:46
Scuda, I really didn't think I was going to find him.

Poor chap, I wonder what his condition was.
He was a Bank Accountant, and I wonder how long he worked for.
Merry
17-08-11, 09:09
I found the commission of lunacy papers for one of mine at TNA. From memory mine was certified around 1891 and died in 1900.
ElizabethHerts
17-08-11, 09:16
Merry, I think Wiltshire Archives have some of these records. He's rather on an offshoot of my family, so I might not have time to look if I visit the archives.