Riccartsbar asylum.....

maggie · Post by **maggie** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:54 pm

Hello
has anyone got any information on Riccartsbar assylum ?
or can point me in the right direction as to where to look i have tried google but nothing really shows up .I have found an ancestor dying there in 1915 .kind regards maggie

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:01 am

Hi Maggie
I've not come across this one so far...where in Scotland is the Asylum?

best wishes
Lesley

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:04 am

S'Ok... found it. Paisley.

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:05 am

Hi MAggie
I'd give this a try I think:
http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/ac20.html

If the material they have is too late, they may know where the earlier material is held.

Best wishes
Lesley

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:13 am

Maggie

It doesn't look very hopeful. See previous posts on the subject.

viewtopic.php?t=2037&highlight=riccartsbar

Wish I could be more encourageing.

Best wishes
Catriona

maggie · Post by **maggie** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:35 am

hello Lesley&Catriona

thankyou for your help i must have missed that post somehow Catriona
with these recent postings looking for Mcnaught's it's got me having another look at my lot in other words i have given SP a fair old hammering today and one of them just dosen't want to be found

this Riccartsbar is where i found his sister ending her day's so just thought that prehaps if i found some more info on her it would give me some clues as to his fate.
Thanks once again for your help
kind regards maggie

nancy · Post by **nancy** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:57 am

Hi Maggie,I can remember going with my mum when i was a small girl,to visit a friend of hers who had the misfortune to be there.It stood where the Paisley Maternity and Royal Alexandra Hospital have been built.The lady mum visited was great at needlework,knitting etc and seemed to be quite normal,and helped out the staff a lot.Every time friends thought she was ready to get out,they were told maybe next time.She got so fed up she started running away,back to her own house.They always knew where to find her.As far as i can remember she died in Riccartsbar.If i hear of anything that would help with your search,i'll get back in touch.Cheers Nancy

maggie · Post by **maggie** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:55 am

Hello Nancy
thanks for your reply the story of your mum's friend
that poor lady heaven only knows what she must have gone through somewhere last night i read memories of a man who used to work in & around an asylum and i couldn't quite get my head around the horror of the story that in the 1930's???he witnessed females hurling stones at one another in the gardens and the warders/carers turning a seemingly blind eye.it made for very sad reading .
thankyou once again
kind regards maggie

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:18 pm

Hi Maggie

Riccartsbar Hospital was still open right up to 1969-70. I used to go there to call on some of my student nurses. It was a bleak, grey building which, by that time was falling to bits and nothing was done because it was to be pulled down anyway.
You may not get info on patients because hospitals are funny about giving up their secrets.
There might be an archive held by Argyll & Clyde Health Board which would give more information at Ross House
Hawkhead Road
Paisley
They are being reorganised just now so offices have been shifted about.
Hope you find your info

Russell

maggie · Post by **maggie** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:59 pm

Hello Russell
thankyou for your reply i will give what you suggest a shot and try to contact the health board you never know i might strike lucky

thankyou once again
kind regards maggie