Inherited Craziness
A place to share all the nuts found on my family tree

Inmates

HM Prison, Exeter
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Roger Cornfoot - geograph.org.uk/p/1062012

Prisoners (or as my dad would say, their only crime was getting caught):
  1. Thomas Sheldrick 7 years Transportation for Larceny in 1830
  2. John Rookley 6 months for Larceny in Exeter in 1841
  3. Lucy Smith 6 months for Larceny in Northampton in 1844
  4. Mary Jane Austin, HM Prison, Northampton St Sepulchre 1881
  5. Arthur Edward Penfold sentenced to death for murder 1891

Workhouses (for these, their only crime was being poor):
  1. John and Elizabeth Oxford, Devonport Workhouse (1841-1853)
  2. Eliza Crow, Great Dunmow Union Workhouse 1842
  3. Jane Middleton and her infant sons, Robert Middleton and William Middleton, South Molton Union Workhouse 1851-1854
  4. Alfred, Edith and Tempest Pryor, Bassingbourn Union Workhouse 1851
  5. Elizabeth and Ellen Wilton, Great Dunmow Union Workhouse 1861
  6. Mary Tooze, Hackney Union Workhouse 1871
  7. Thomas, Mary Jane and William Flew, South Molton Workhouse 1876 
  8. Lucy Hockley, Great Dunmow Union Workhouse 1861, 1871 & 1890
  9. Elizabeth Hockley, Ada Elizabeth Hockley & Joseph James Hockley 
  10. Richard, Alfred and Walter Rowland. Wellington Union Workhouse 1881
  11. Mary Jane Austin, Brixworth Union Workhouse 1881
  12. Thomas Thompson, Kettering Union Workhouse 1881
  13. William Thompson, Kettering Union Workhouse 1881
  14. Arthur Edward Penfold, St Andrew's Workhouse, Norwich 1888
  15. Ann Wilton, Workhouse Gordon Road, Camberwell 1881-1909
  16. Jane Stone and Louisa Jane Stone, Tiverton Union Workhouse 1891
  17. Frederick, Eliza, Arthur and Bessie Southcott, Tiverton Union Workhouse 1891-1913
  18. Isaac Phillips, Romford Union House 1891-1892
  19. Ann Soppit, Tynemouth Parish Workhouse 1901
  20. Charles John Northcott, Elmore Workhouse (Tiverton) 1908
  21. William Hill Adcock, Dartford Union Workhouse 1911
  22. John Hurley Coombe Holborn Union Workhouse, Mitcham, Surrey 1911.
  23. Cornelius Jones, died in the Workhouse Infirmary in Cork, 1926

Other Asylums and institutions (punished for being female): 
  1. Elfrida Trevail, Patient at the Cornwall County Asylum 1871-1921
  2. Ann Bennett Trevail, Inmate of the Cornwall County Asylum, 1901
  3. Mary Jane Penfold London County Asylum, The Heath, Dartford 1901
  4. Elizabeth Ann Flew Devon County Lunatic Asylum, 1901-1908
  5. Sarah Ann Edmond, died at The Mental Hospital, Exminster, 1933
  6. Mary Trevail Netherne Hospital (formerly Surrey County Asylum or Netherne Asylum: a psychiatric hospital), Coulsdon, Surrey in 1938
  7. Constance Mary Helen Edmond, was resident at the The Royal Western Counties Institution For Training And Treatment Of Mental Defectives, Starcross, originally known as the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1939
  8. Mary Louisa Adcock Botterill was consigned to what was then called the Leavesden Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles in 1947
  9. Josephine Grace Reich St Lawrence's Hospital (formerly Cornwall County Asylum), Bodmin 1977