Queensland mental asylum patients before 1888

Queensland mental asylum patients before 1888
© Copyright Judy Webster. Page created 14 Jul 2008.

The list below (names and ships) was compiled by a friend who shares my enthusiasm for genealogy and family history. She has found evidence to suggest that the people listed below spent some time in a Queensland mental asylum before 1888. Please note that this is only a partial list, and more names will be added later.

In addition to the ship's name, Annual Reports of the Asylums for the Insane often give age, marital status, date of immigration, date admitted to asylum, and remarks such as 'discharged recovered', 'died', 'since readmitted', 'deserted by her parents', 'epileptic', 'emigrated to Sydney', 'emigrated to Melbourne', 'was in Maryborough', 'mother died in asylum in England', 'father insane', etc.

Explanation of names below:

Names beginning with 'Mc' precede other 'M' surnames.
Apostrophes have been removed from names such as O'BRIEN.
Some abbreviated names have been expanded (eg, 'Wm' to 'William').
For names below, I can order copies of the original records (this link leads to instructions).

SURNAME Given Name, Ship

ADAMS James, Scottish Knight

BAIN Margaret, Linlithgowshire
BARKER Mary, Western Monarch
BENNETT Jane, Nowshera
BONELL Geo, El Dorado
BOYCE Charles, Duke of Buccleuch
BOYS Chenery Francis, Fleur de Lys
BRUTON Mary, Duke of Sutherland
BRYANT Emma, Nowshera
BUSQUET Phelix, Sikh

CHALMERS William, Duntrune
CHISHOLM Thomas, Albany
CHRISHOLM Thomas (see CHISHOLM)
CLEARY Michael, Bulimba
COODY Catherine ?, Mairi Bhan
CURTIS Joseph, Duke of Buckingham

DALTON Susan, Scottish Hero
DOWELL William H, Roxboroughshire
DOYLE Margaret, ?

EGAN Annie, Almora
EGAN Cath, Dorunda
EMMETT Lizzie (see EMMITT Eliza)
EMMITT Eliza, Duke of Buccleuch

FALKNER Mark, Stacathro
FLEMING James, South Esk
FOSTER Catherine, Western Monarch

GALSWORTHY George, New Guinea
GIBBONS John, Quetta
GREWER Mary, Scotland

HEXTER Martha, Dorunda
HOWISON William, Ango-Indian

IVES Susan, Chyebassa

JONES Ellen, Melpomene

KELLY Johanna, Corona
KELLY Stephen, Merkara

LANE James E, Duke of Buckingham
LYNCH William, Zamora
LYONS Thomas, Durham

McINTYRE Sam, Selkirkshire
McNAMARA Bridget, Hampshire
McNAMARA Honora, Scottish Wizard

MADDAFORD Henry ?, Dorunda ?
MERDITH Fanny, Duke of Argyll
MILNE Helen, Carnatic
MOONEY Catherine, Duke of Buckingham
MORAN Thomas, Stirlingshire
MORRIS Alf, Crown of Aragon
MORRIS John, Duke of Argyll

NIXON Edward, Sarah Scott
NORRIS Emily, New Guinea

OBRIEN Mary Ann, Duke of Westminster
OCONNELL Mary, Scottish Hero
OCONNOR William, New Guinea
OGRADY Julia, Dorunda

RICE John, New Guinea
ROUNTREE Edward, Merkara

SADDLER R, Albany
SHEAY Michael, Duke of Argyll
SHOOTER Maria Gertrude, ?
SMALL Mary, Nuddea
SMITH John, Kincardineshire
STANLEY Amelia, Zamora
STEWART Jessie, Nebo
SULLIVAN Johanna ?, Quetta
SUMNER Margaret, Scotland

TENNYSON Thomas, Berwick Law
TIPPING Charles ?, Compta
TOOHY Mary (or TUOHY?), Bulimba
TORPY John, Quetta
TUOHY Mary (see TOOHY Mary)

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