Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:33 am Post subject: Institutions & 1911 Census
I discovered from the original page of the 1911 census that my grandmother had another child who died shortly after birth. This info came from statistics her husband gave on the census re: how many children born alive and how many still living. After investigating BMD, I found the birth & death of the child. My grandmother was not found on the census, but her husband said that he was married. Is there an institution she might be found at if she had suffered depression after the death of her child? She had a nervous breakdown later in life, so she may have needed psychiatric care at this time and was not living at home at the time of the census. She had been living in Southport with her husband and other child. Her name was Clara Gillies.
If she was in a hospital or institution then she would have been listed their Census Return as a patient/inmate.
Folk from Southport would probably have been taken to Ormskirk (Wigan Road), Liverpool (Kirkdale or Walton) or maybe even Preston (Sharoe Green Lane) if there was no suitable place for her in Southport.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject: Institutions & 1911 Census
Thank you, Seacop. (Not sure why I wasn't notified that you had replied to this post)
There was nothing like that listed. She just didn't appear. However, the end column of people with physical and emotional challenges was whited out. Was that done on all census records? I also read that the suffragettes boycotted the census and that may be why she was not even listed as a member of the household - she was not there that evening.
The final column on the 1991 census is omitted (whited out) because of confidentiality. It has been released early so any sensitive inforation is not allowed until after the 100 years - so I think in 2012 it will be allowed to be shown
I have tried searching the Internet and can't find this mentioned. But have found this - Asylums, prisons and similar institutions
Patients or inmates held in institutions such as asylums and prisons were often enumerated solely by the first letters of their first and last names. For example, ‘John Smith’ would be recorded as 'J.S.'. Unfortunately, this makes finding these ancestors on the census practically impossible.
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