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Quarter Sessions
LUNACY , PRIVATE ASYLUMS

Sculcoates Refuge
FILE  [no title] - ref. QAL/3/42 - date: 1828 - 1836
item: [no title] - ref. QAL/3/42/195 [n.d.]
Scope and Content [extract] ... Informant: Rev. Hotham, John Elgey



SubSection Quarter Sessions papers relating to lunacy 
series Quarter Sessions papers relating to private asylums 

Item 
Weaverthorpe Asylum, notices of discharges 

FindingNo QAL/3/51/18 
Title Notice of discharge of Robert Elgey 
Date 14 Jun 1850 
Description Date admitted: 1 May 1850
Date discharged: 14 Jun 1850
Name: Robert Elgey
Authority: father

FindingNo QAL/3/51/32 
Title Notice of discharge of Robert Elgey 
Date 12 Aug 1851 
Description Date admitted: 7 Jun 1851
Date discharged: 12 Aug 1851
Name: Robert Elgey
Authority: John Elgey, father
 

The Weaverthorp records suggest Robert was continuously, in and out of Alylum
Possibly he suffered from occasional fits of epilepsy

1851 Census 
source              Ho107,  piece 2366,  folio 25, page
Place               Wetwang 
Dwelling            Home field  schedule 120 

William Elgey   head  M 45 farmer of 350 acres emp 5 lab      Homefield, Wetwang
Jane    Elgey   wife  M 32 farmers wife                       North Burton 
Robert  Elgey brother S 33 famers son                         Wetwang   

1871 census 
source              RG10 piece 4808 folio       page 16
Place                       Wetwang 
Dwelling             schedule 88 Home Field 

William Elgey    head  M  65     Farmer of 337 acres emp 4 boys 1 Lab
Jane    Elgey    wife  M  52
Robert  Elgey  brother S  53     Farm labourer  
William Brankley vist  W  73     Retired Farmer
Margaret B Hutty lodger U  26   
Ann Rigg        serv    u  19    general servant
Thomas Monkman  serv    u  26    Farm  Servant            
John Wafs       serv    u  18    Farm Servant

1881 census
source                RG10 piece  4789, folio  10 , page 13
place                 Aldbrough in Skirlaugh, EYR
dwelling              schedule 64, the Village

John  Creaser  head  55   Farmer  17 acres    Aldbrough
Ann   Creaser  wife  64                       Hull 
Robert  Elgey  boarder  63   Gentleman        Wetwang   

Robert died 1888

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