Can you help George Marshall Medical Museum with a spot of family history research to find out about some people who were admitted to the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum in the 19th century? Get in touch if you’d like to help.

Our aim is to share more patients’ stories, and to find out about their lives before admission and (where possible) after discharge.

Click on one of the patients’ names below to find out what we have found out so far…

Jane Ayres

Catherine Batchelor

Michael Capella

Emma Castle

Adam Cooper

Esther Crouch

Mary Ann Dalley/Dally Content warning. This post discusses suicide.

Eliza Davies

Selina Franks

Jane Guise Content warning. This post discusses suicide.

Hemming and Wyatt families Content warning. This post discusses suicide.

Susannah Hooper

Joseph Lowe

Arthur Malpass Content warning. This post discusses suicide.

Caroline Martin

Sarah Morris Content warning. This post discusses suicide.

George Need Content warning. This post discusses suicide.

Susan Quinton Content warning. This post discusses suicide.

Alfred Townsend

John Henry Tyler

Mary Ann Walker

Ann Wheeler

Samuel Whitehouse Content warning. This post discusses suicide.

Alfred Wooldridge Content warning. This post discusses Alfred’s suicidal feelings in his own words.

Search the database for people who may have been asylum patients, and read their notes (if available).

We have also begun to look into the staff of the mental hospital at Powick

Medical Superintendent Dr Henry Felix Fenton