The Nine Thousand

c.1826-1907

Transferred from Isle of Wight County Asylum and was visited by her niece Emily Sherwood.

c.1833-1907

Transferred from Milton Asylum, Portsmouth. She carried out work on the ward.

1833-1907

An unmarrried and troubled domestic servant with no known relatives.

1832-1908

A Camden Town mantle finisher persecuted by voices who claimed to be related to the Queen.

1837-1909

A grieving mother whose remaining family visited her often.

c.1855-1910

A ‘well-behaved’ and silent woman, originally from Vauxhall.

1831-1911

A thrice widowed parasol maker and mother.

1846-1911

Transferred from Fisherton House Asylum, Salisbury. She carried out needlework on the ward.

c.1841-1911

A one-time servant to a Baronet and Chief Clerk in the Colonial Office, her path to the Manor Asylum is unclear.

1831-1911

Transferred from Fisherton House Asylum, Salisbury. She worked as a needleworker on the ward.

1858-1911

Estranged from her bigamous husband before dying from uterus cancer.

1858-1912

Housewife who suffered delusions from “alcoholic excess”.

1840-1912

A successful, independent businesswoman admitted to the asylum in her 60s.

1876-1913

A young housewife and maid afflicted by syphilis.

1849-1913

Housekeeper, widow and mother of young children (who worked as a nurse in an asylum before her own committal), ‘worry seems to have unhinged her mind’.

1836-1913

Transferred from Banstead Asylum, Sutton. She was visited regularly by her daughter, Harriet Emeline Ashenden.

c.1848-1913

A housewife who imagined her family’s visits.

1882-1914

A long history of mental illness, compounded by childbirth.

Unknown-1914

Transferred from Hanwell Asylum, Middlesex. She was originally from Gloucestershire.

1836-1915

Widow who suffered from religious mania and prolonged mental stress.

1870-1915

Transferred from Holborn Workhouse and much visited by family and friends.

1845-1916

A housekeeper with grandiose delusions of being a duchess.

1879-1919

Moved from Kent Asylum and regularly visited by Edward Buckland.

1862-1920

Troubled with violent episodes from youth, she spent most of her life in asylums.

c.1868-1941

His previous residence was listed as the Workhouses in Chelsea, London. He worked in the cowshed and on the farmyard.

c.1871-1946

Transferred from Manor Asylum, he worked in the hospital grounds and with the Epsom cluster coal porters.