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.

Please note some of the patients’ case notes discuss suicide or suicidal feelings in the patients’ 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 asylum at Powick

Medical Superintendent Dr Henry Felix Fenton

Nurse Agnes Hanks

Nurse Edith Hanks

Charge Nurse Lizzie Palmer