Asylum & Mental Illness Records

1880 US Census of Defective, Dependent & Delinquent (1880)

An index and images of a census of the insane, idiots, the deaf, the blind, paupers, the homeless and prisoners.

UK Lunacy Patients Admission Registers (1846-1912)

Digital images, searchable by a name index, of registers recording the admittance and discharge of over 840,000 people to insane asylums.

Bexley, Kent Asylum Minute Books (1901-1939)

A list of almost 12,000 names extracted from the asylum's minute books. Included are patients, staff and contractors.

Cornwall Inmates (1821-1921)

Abstracts of documents recording people incarcerated in Cornwall. Index may include name, age, abode, occupation, crimes and numerous other details.

Prestwich Asylum Admissions (1851-1901)

Abstracts of over 20,000 admissions to an insane asylum.

Hospital Records Database (1550-Present)

A finding aid for records created by hospitals and medical institutions. Includes records relating to estates, staff, finances etc.

South Yorkshire Asylum Admission Records (1872-1910)

Transcripts of 17,368 admission records, including name, gender, age, occupation, date of admission, cause of insanity, outcome of incarceration, date of leaving the institution and more.

England & Wales Criminal Lunacy Records (1882-1898)

Around 5,000 records detailing the movement of mentally ill people from prison to insane asylums.

Broadmoor Revealed (1863-2013)

A book primarily detailing the famous and not-so-famous inmates of Berkshire's famous lunatic asylum.

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