Riccartsbar Asylum Paisley.....

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Caroline
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Riccartsbar Asylum Paisley.....

Post by Caroline » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:43 pm

Does anyone know if there are any patient records available for Riccartsbar Asylum?

I tried the Mitchell who referred me to Paisley Library who referred me to the Health Board who suggested I try Paisley Library or the Mitchell !

I'm asking because one of my relatives was there in the 1881 census and labelled a lunatic , but I suspect it was something like post natal depression. Her daughter-in-law also died there in 1935 from a post partium debility.

Caroline
Hood, Nicholson, Strang, Taylor, Wallace - GLASGOW
Ritchie, Robertson, Smith, Summers - FIFE
Henderson, Montgomery, Rutherford - HAUGH OF URR
Hart, McAdam, Young - DUNBARTONSHIRE
Caldwell, Roberts - RENFREWSHIRE
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Jack
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Re: Riccartsbar Asylum Paisley

Post by Jack » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:35 pm

Hi Caroline,
They don't appear to have patient records. http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/ac20.html
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But maybe contact Alistair Tough, Archivist to see what he advises?
http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/contact.html

Jack


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Caroline
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Post by Caroline » Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:45 pm

Hi Jack,

I've already contacted Alistair Tough and he said he couldn't help me. Looks like I'll have to give up on this one!

Thanks anyway,

Caroline
Hood, Nicholson, Strang, Taylor, Wallace - GLASGOW
Ritchie, Robertson, Smith, Summers - FIFE
Henderson, Montgomery, Rutherford - HAUGH OF URR
Hart, McAdam, Young - DUNBARTONSHIRE
Caldwell, Roberts - RENFREWSHIRE
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