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Position:Home>Genealogy> Question about an ancestor in Broadmoor prison asylum?Question: Question about an ancestor in Broadmoor prison asylum?I have an ancestor who was in Broadmoor from 1876 to 1907. My third cousin tried to get photocopies of the records but they only gave him a basic summary for ￡17. He said that there were letters which had been wrote to him from home. They are transferring the records to the local PRO and they say it will take 2 years to catalogue them and all enquries must be sent to Broadmoor. Is there anyway I could get hold of these records through the freedom of information act? Additional Details 1 day ago 1 day ago 23 hours ago 23 hours ago Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 1 day ago photocopies of the full letters I mean1 day ago I know what he did ben - he hit his wife across the head with a scythe nearly killing her due to thinking she had took some money out of a drawer.23 hours ago The hardyz - I challenge you to study your family history if you can muster up any sort of intelligence to do that. I'm sure you have a few black sheep in yours as do most people. Either that or your family were just boring nonentities with no colourful characters.23 hours ago I've just found out that you are 12 so that explains why you are so immature. You actually have a mental age of about 7 http://berksfhs.org.uk/journal/jun2002/j... Wendy sez... FIND THIS GUY! and buy him dinner I don't know whether the link below will help you at all, there is rather a lot of written information relating to broadmoor, and I do believe you can get the information you are asking for because of the time that has elapsed, but I will just do some more digging to see what I can find for you. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_ta.h... hope this helps. here are some useful sites that may have links off them or definately able to email for advice....http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_ta.h... http://www.markwalton.net/04/mdo/archive... http://psychcentral.com/grohol.htm... hope theirs some help for u...my partner used these sites for his mental health degree...incidentaly he has worked in broadmoor but hes not in at the mo or would ask if he knows the protocol...good luck You might be able to do that, if not then you may have to wait, If he was in Broadmoor then he did some thing really bad, Try working back through the local papers to see if you can find out what he did. Good luck and good hunting Ha psycho family coookcooooo cookooo Is this any help? The actual records about individuals are either held at The National Archives, Kew (but are currently closed), held by the Berkshire Record Office (see Record Keeping magazine Spring 2007 from The National Archives, Kew or are still held at Broadmoor although records about policy and individuals may be available in the series quoted above, in particular in Home Office records. T 165/4 gives information about the history of Broadmoor, Bethlem and various subjects concerning Broadmoor and is one of a series of Blue Notes T 165 which were compiled for Ministers on various government departments and institutions. |