Died in the Asylum
Hingerty Deaths in Asylums
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| St Luke's Hospital Clonmel |
William Hingerty
On 6th March 1883, Patrick Hingerty of Toomevara (indexed as Hingarty) brought his 16 year old son William to court, charging him with serious assault on 2,3 and 4 March.
William was committed to Clonmel District Lunatic Asylum as 'a dangerous lunatic during his Majestys pleasure'.
I have not found any death record for William in Ireland and the records for the asylum are not available online.
Did William ever leave the asylum? If he did leave the asylum, when? where did he go?
UPDATE June 2023:
The Minute Books for the Clonmel Asylum are held at Tipperary Studies, Thurles, Tipperary, Ireland.
In June 2023 I was able to visit the Studies Centre and gain access to the Minute Books.
The books contain a monthly summary of patient admissions and discharges as well as the accounts for the administration of the asylum.
No entry was found for William's admission in March 1883, however he was listed as Recovered and Discharged in the monthly summary for 12 July - 9 August 1886
Therefore, it seems that William did not die at the Asylum- although he may have been re-admitted at a later date.....the archivists at the centre assured me that if he died in the Asylum his death would have been registered so a death at the Asylum appears to be highly unlikely.
No death for a William Hingerty/Hingarty has been found in Ireland 1886- 1980.
Did William emigrate after his release from the Asylum? Two of his sisters and one brother emigrated to the USA, maybe William did too??
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| Mullingar Mental Asylum Westmeath |
Bridie Teresa Hingerty
In 1916 Bridie Teresa Hingerty (48 years old and mother of 10 children) was committed to Mullingar mental asylum following an application by her husband James and a doctor.
She died there from sudden apoplexy and senility as a 71 year old in June 1939.
She was buried in the family plot in Kilbeggan and lies there with her husband James, sons Michael and John, daughters Pantaleon, Helen, Mary J and Frances and Florence.
Daniel Hingerty
Stafford County Lunatic Asylum, Staffordshire England was opened in 1818, the first of three asylums built in the county. It later became St George's Hospital.
Daniel Hingerty was born in Staffordshire in 1837. He was admitted to the Asylum 5 September 1902 (indexed a Danl Hingarty) and later discharged as Recovered on 19 January 1903. The cause of his admission is not detailed in the admission record.
He must have been readmitted at a later date as in the 1911 Census he is listed as a patient at the Asylum, single and 69 years of age (indexed as Hingerby).
He died in the asylum in October 1917.
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| Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute, Liverpool New South Wales |
John Hingerty
The Liverpool Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute operated from 1862 until 1933. It provided refuge for infirm and destitute men. Inmates could earn a small wage working on the asylum's farm. It became the Liverpool State Hospital and Home in 1933.
John Hingerty was born in Ballyane, Tipperary in 1839. He arrived in Melbourne in 1868.
In 1870 he took over a hotel licence previously held by his brother in law. His licence was renewed in 1871 and 1872, but by 1874 he was in court for unpaid debts. On his death certificate it states that he was in Victoria for 4 years and in New South Wales for 27 years. Therefore, he must have left Victoria around 1874.
If this is the case, where was he between 1874 and 1900 when he was admitted to the asylum with an ulcerated leg in January? There are no records of him in NSW during the period prior to this admission.
John was discharged from the hospital to 'the yard" (the farm?) in March 1900. In October 1900 he was once again admitted to the hospital, but there are no details as to the cause of his admission and no reference to being discharged or readmitted prior to his death from senile debility at the asylum in June 1903.
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| Dunwich Benevolent Asylum, Queensland |
The Hennerty Family
The Dunwich Benevolent Asylum was a public institution which operated from 1865 until 1946 for the poor and destitute from across Queensland. Inmates were referred from hospitals, the police or by their families. The majority of inmates were male and elderly.
There were about 1,000 inmates present at any one time reaching a peak of 1,600 in 1903. The asylum had twenty wards, tent accommodation, police station, lock up, visitor centre, public hall, bakery, kitchen, laundry, recreational facilities, dairy herd, piggery and, from 1926 a power station.
The Hennerty family of Brisbane had a long association with Dunwich.
William Hennerty was born William Hingerty in Tipperary about 1840. He emigrated to Sydney in 1864, married as Hingerty and then moved to Brisbane and changed his name to Hennerty.
In July 1903 he was transferred to Dunwich from a hospital suffering with severe rheumatism. It seems that he never left Dunwich and died there suffering from chronic rheumatism and senile decay in September 1911.
While William was at Dunwich, his son John had a serious work accident having been struck by a train from behind. Both his legs were broken. In August 1903 John was admitted to Dunwich for three months. John never left Dunwich, eventually becoming a gardener there. He died at Dunwich of a heart condition in 1930.
William's wife Ann lived with family members in Brisbane until April 1922 when she was admitted to Dunwich. She died there of senility in May 1922.
William's son Michael James had worked throughout Queensland for many years, but was admitted to Dunwich as a 72 year old in August 1941 as being unable to care for himself. He was listed as a resident of Dunwich on the 1943 Electoral Roll and died there in January 1946 from Senility.
Thus four members of the family had found asylum and assistance within this institution.
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