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Re: George Greaves, Middlewood Hospital, Missing Burial

Phil rich
At Wadsley church there is a large area with no headstones where people from Middlewood hospital were buried.
He should still be entered in the burial register if he was buried there.

Angela

Re: George Greaves, Middlewood Hospital, Missing Burial

just a thought but do you know when his wife died and where she is buried?

Re: George Greaves, Middlewood Hospital, Missing Burial

He never married and his parents died before he did. On the 1881 census he was listed as having become blind, so he must have been ill for some time prior to ending up at Wadsley.

I'm struggling to find anything about a burial in Barnsley though.

I am wondering now that if his body wasn't claimed within a reasonable time (I'm presuming his parents would have been the next of kin as he was living with them prior to ending up where he did) whether it was given to medical research. There was a law that allowed for it apparently. Has anybody come across anything like that?

Re: George Greaves, Middlewood Hospital, Missing Burial

James, back in 2004 I had a similar case with my grandmother who died in 1917. Because I could not find a burial for her I believed at that stage that perhaps she had been sold for research. Some documents for her were found at SFA, including an autopsy report, and a nurse report of her moment of death. That autopsy was a legal requirement for someone who died in the asylum. But there was no indication of what happened to her remains.
Eventually I found her buried by her mother in Stannington
From all this I learned that the SFA patients were paid for by the workhouse from which they came, and when they died that originating workhouse sorted out what happened next.
Your theory is possible, but the final decision on that would be made by the Barnsley Workhouse. Are there any records extant?
Hope that helps.
Dave