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Many people will not know what a coprolite merchant is. This story will make all clear.
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Benjamin said he had made a harp with 1,000 strings and could play any tune and instrument! He worked as a musician.
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There is no hint of any mental health problems until Mary Ann enters the Asylum in 1899. He family remain attentive and visit her many times.
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She ordered extravagant luncheons both at Stafford and Northampton stations and had no money to pay for them. The delusion that she is a duchess recurs frequently throughout her case notes.
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Without the invaluable case notes for Caroline Ward, we would not be able to tell any of her sad story.
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Ada proved a little elusive to find at first.Thanks to the visitor book, the author then found her husband and more of her short life was uncovered.
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It is not clear why John entered Manor hospital. His family were interesting. John’s brother George, a builder, left £6m in his will. His son Thomas and his wife were killed by a V2 rocket in 1944.
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A story revisited by the author when invaluable case notes came to light at the London Metropolitan Archives. What followed resulted in a thorough family history for Walter Cartwright and his family.
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The author says, “This has been such an interesting case to try to unravel and kept a couple of us up to the early hours trying to make sense of it!” A fabulous piece of research leaving questions to unravel.
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5½ weeks after he had his head cut open by being knocked down by some roughs in the street, William Aitken suffered a life of Epilepsy in hospitals and asylums. His wife left the children to fend for themselves and it would appear he never saw any of them again.
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We are not sure why Ellen (Nellie) Simcock entered Manor Asylum but she was visited often by family members
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Maria MILTON gave birth to 11 children, a challenging life that ended in Horton Asylum.
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The Mechanical Engineer
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The tailoress suffering depression
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Was an unfortunate accident responsible for this man’s epilepsy?
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Daughter of famous colonial architect who built Sydney.
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The Dressmaker
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The Railway Porter
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Died aged just 22
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The Solicitor’s Clerk
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Orphaned at 13
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The Domestic Servant
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Christ’s brother or King of England?
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The Lambeth Needlewoman
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Coping with 6 family deaths within 4 months
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A mother of 10
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The glove maker
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The sad story of Emma of whom we know very little. She was born without speech and spent most of her life away from her family.
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What happened to this Bootmaker?
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The young bookkeeper and the Silk Merchant
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Lost her twin brother, aged 4
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A 20ft fall led to strange behaviour
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Additional difficulty of not speaking English
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The German Tailor who came to London
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How the Russian Revolution destroyed a family of Polish nobility
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Escaped childhood murder!
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A famous Dutch artist from a famous artistic family; yet missing from the historical records. Why did this son end up at the Asylum?
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The giggling tomboy
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The Yale graduate and published author
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The Worst and Wickedest Woman in London
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The boisterous, Victorian star of the stage
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Famous Flamenco dancer and Picasso’s muse
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The French Polisher
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The mysterious case of the Widow and the Decorator – The mystery of a lady who left home and was never seen again. Only years later was she found to have died in Epsom with a different name.
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The Hollywood film star’s brother.
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The silver polisher
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The common story of someone with epilepsy whose life was marred by a lack of understanding of the condition.
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An epileptic since birth
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The Kensington Plumber
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Survivor of The Titanic
