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Hi, can anyone throw any light on an instituiton called Chamber Hills in Ashton - u - Lyne gr manchester 1900.
it lists some inmates as lunatics ?? others Blind etc.
my gggrandmother is listed as an inmate but she was an old woman who had lived in salford all her life !!

Do you think sending for her death cert. may help, it would give the name and address of the informant of her death.
Liz

Thanks folks, her daughter informant and present at death . daughter address is ashto -u -lyne died of some form of paralysis. still doesnt explain why she would be in a workhouse if presumably she went to aston with her daughter.

just realised that her death was registered at the same ashton address as her daughter in 1895 yet she institutionalised in 1891 census kevin

I have also just seen this thread. A lot of workhouses had a hospital/infirmary attached, it may be that your gggrandmother may have been there in 1891 because she was ill when the census was taken. Just a thought as one of my gggrandmothers died in the workhouse hospital, she was very ill.

Caz

As Caz says, the workhouses were very multi-functional and covered situations which we now separate off into different services.

This workhouse was extended and became a hospital. The suggestion that she was admitted due to illness makes perfect sense . thank you all for your interest in this topic