Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, Poorhouse Records, 1888-1912. From the Berber Roman governor who supervised the building of the Antonine Wall, to Lithuanians who mined Lanarkshire coal, to the Belgian WW1 refugees who worked as clippies on Glasgow trams, refugees and migrants have been part of the fabric of Scottish society since before Scotland even existed. www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/libraries-archives/access-archives-local-studies-library/research-guides/mental-health (Sheffield Archives and Local Studies: Indexed names of patients admitted to South Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum [Middlewood Hospital], 1872 to 1910), Scotland Scottish Asylum Patients - Genealogy and Family History in Scotland General Register of Lunatics in Asylum We have indexed the first 16 volumes of the General Register of Lunatics in Asylum. What was life really like inVictorian mental asylums?) 1858 - 1915. The register records are part of the MC7 series, General Register of lunatics in asylum. experience. Govan parish records - Genealogy and Family History in Scotland If you dont find the result that you are looking for try leaving one (or both) of these boxes blank. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Scotland saw relatively small numbers of people arriving from many different countriesto seek asylum. An entry for Inverness District Asylum in 1866 details a man who had earlier worked as a gold miner in Ballarat, Australia. The letter, written during the First World War, said: It is very heart breaking, his constant desire to get home - where there is no home. We usually try to complete all orders . Ancestors in the asylum - part 1 - Ancestral Research by Jacqueline www.ancestry.co.uk(London, England, Poor Law and Board of Guardian Records, 1738-1926. Call us to schedule a time to bring in your vinyl collection. We will continue to add to the other institutions as the site evolves. Your cookie preferences have been saved. Prof Harper said the disproportionate number of migrants at the hospital could be expected given BC was a relatively new province, most of whose population had been born overseas or in other parts of Canada. One record referred to a man called Charles, from Forres, who was first admitted to an asylum in Inverness in 1903 suffering from acute mania and melancholia and then transferred to Aberdeen and Elgin in 1907.