Julia PINGON

Julia PINGON

Julia Pingon (sic)

Julia’s unusual surname was almost certainly written phonetically by the Hanwell Asylum clerk on her admission in 1884, and this spelling followed her until her death in 1903 when her death certificate states that she was the wife of Pingon unknown of Kensington Infirmary.

Searching using her first name only and year of birth did not throw up any likely records for her, nor did using the wild card surnames Pincombe / Pingee / Pinion / Pinyon / Pingan / Pingen.

Apart from the records shown below, there were no other records found online for her.

Julia’s story

Julia was admitted into the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, West London, on 8th March 1884 where she stayed for twelve years.

Admission to Hanwell Asylum and discharged date

The image on the left shows the column headers from the far-right side of the Lunacy Patients Admission Registers. These sub-columns were used by the clerks to record the reason a patient left the asylum or when they died.

When a patient’s line was filled out, a clerk would put a tick mark or date in one of these four columns:

• Recovd. (Recovered): The patient was deemed mentally well and cured, allowing them to be formally discharged back to their home or community.
• Reld. (Relieved): The patient’s condition had significantly improved or stabilized, but they weren’t fully cured. This often meant they were well enough to leave, or they were being transferred to a workhouse or a different type of care facility.
• Not Impd. (Not Improved): The patient’s mental health state remained unchanged. Ticks here usually meant the patient was being transferred to a different asylum better suited for long-term care.
• Died: The patient passed away while actively residing in the asylum facility.

Julia stayed in the Hanwell Asylum until she was discharged as Reld (Relieved) on 1st January 1896.

Where she went to is unknown and her whereabouts when the 1901 census was taken is also unknown, but as her death certificate states that she was ‘of Kensington Infirmary’, that would indicate that Kensington was the area she had been living in before her first or next admission.

On 7th October 1901 Julia’s mental health required her to be admitted into the West Sussex County Asylum in Chichester.

Admission to West Sussex County Asylum

Julia stayed as not improved in the West Sussex Asylum until her transfer to the Horton Asylum in Epsom, Surrey, on 19th June 1902.

Admission to Horton Asylum

Julia was aged 66 when she died in the Horton Asylum on 14th April 1903 from chronic renal disease. Her death certificate states that she was the wife of Pingon unknown of Kensington Infirmary.

Julia’s death certificate

Her body was buried in grave 199 on 18th April 1903 in the Horton Estate Cemetery in Epsom. Her burial entry below indicates that she was a Roman Catholic.