Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Following some research by our members we now have a link to a website about the school.

http://www.ripley.lancsngfl.ac.uk/history.html

Also the name of the Solicitors who hold the records

Oglethorpe, Sturton and Gillibrand, Solicitors, Castle Park, Lancaster

together with the information that during the course of this year (2009), hopefully they will be depositing all the historical records with Lancashire Records Office.

This database gives information on where there is any information on named hospitals and where to find it. Basically it contains the hospitals were any records etc are available.


www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp

Ed Officer

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/

Click "Searth the Database"
Enter as much of the name of the hospital that you know and town, then choose the hospital from the list produced by clicking "Details".

You will then see the address of the hospital, the dates it was open and if it's closed, what it specialised in - ie tuberculosis, fever etc. and where the records can be found.

I found out recently a great uncle had died of TB in 1939. I noticed the death registration index district was Northwich in Cheshire so did a search for TB hospitals etc in Cheshire. Between Frodsham and Northwich there were two sanatoria, one for Liverpool and one for Manchester. It's likely he died at Liverpool Sanatorium. It may be worth remembering that a Northwich registration for a Liverpool relative could mean they died of TB. Here are some interesting links for both Liverpool and Manchester Sanatoria:-

http://mscch.org/frodsham/crossley.php

http://members.multimania.co.uk/hospita ... orium.html

http://crossleyhospital.0adz.com/



Col

This month I tried for access to the medical record of an ex-sailor who had died at Fazakerley Sanatorium after discharge from service in WW1. My purpose was to strengthen a case for recognition as a war-related death.
I was refused access as I was not related and could not contact next of kin, if any.

[All ended well, as the application for recognition was approved despite the lack of medical evidence.]

Daggers

That's good R. I know there can be some sticky points over this subject,

I would just like to mention that if the hospital/asylum is Rainhill, do get in touch with the Record Office, providing confirmation of the death of the person you are enquiring about and Roger Hull usually proves very helpful if he can.

I would second the comment made by Mary about Roger Hull, he provided me with all the records about my Great Uncle who died in Rainhill and even a photograph within a couple of days of applying.

I received a mail today from The National Archives saying that hospital war diaries are now available for purchase.

'Diaries of 247 First World War hospital camps, hospital ships, convalescent hospitals and veterinary hospitals are now available to search and download. These war diaries reveal different methods of treating injured and disabled soldiers, and give an insight into life in hospital during the First World War.'

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help ... ery%20link

My ggf was taken to the 32nd Stationary Hospital, Wimereux, at the end of October 1916 and died there. So I entered '32 Stationary' in the 'Regiment, Battalion, Brigade or Division' field. It found a number of 'Lines of Communication Troops', split by date. I didn't know what that meant - still don't - but I paid my £3.30 for July - October 1916. The purchased document lists statistics of admissions and evacuations for each day but also lists the deaths. Sure enough; my ggf is listed there. Furthermore; all the books say the weather was horrendous that last week of October when he was missing and this document records how the building of huts was delayed due to stormy weather. Fascinating; and well worth £3.30 if you know where an ancestor was taken to be treated.

News story here:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/abou ... ws%20story

A useful article describing some details of sites, however in case it vanishes, below are the links given.
Hospital Records Database https://data.gov.uk/dataset/85bc224d-03 ... al-records
National Archives Discovery https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project http://www.hharp.org/