Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Hi folks
Does anyone know if Asylum was a hamlet in Dewsbury?
Here is ref for Edward Pickles, on the next half of the page is Asylum.
I can't read Ed's address Daws?green " upper st?
HO107/1268 Book 5
Folio 31 page 9
Any help about Asylum much appreciated and this will get you all out of Scouseland for a change....

Tina

As for getting out of Scouseland - I'll have you know that my last stroll was through St Helier in Jersey - how's that for upper class then

I have no knowledge about Asylum in Dewsbury but thought in case anybody else has some ideas I'd give the description of the Enumerator's Walk, which makes it sound as if there should be a Workhouse there, and you would assume that "Asylum" would be AN Asylum, rather than a place, but it's not clear to me

All that part of the township of Dewsbury which lies on the north of Dawgreen upper road from Boothroyd Lane road below Free school to the Heckmondwike road thence to Poor house lane on the south of Poor-house lane and public foot-path to Boothroyd lane, thence on the south and west of the said lane to Dawgreen upper road below Free school.

St Helier indeed...dead posh Mary!
Thanks for doing the "walk" in 1841...
What has got me stumped is that none of the people are inmates or paupers. They've all got jobs.
I shall have me Skippy Cornflakes & look in 1851.

Cheers
Tina
Carn You Blues!!

Woo Hoo...thank you Marmaduke Tolson!
I plucked him from 1841 & he's still there in 1851 but address reads Sylum.
Let me know please Mary what you think, thanks me dear.
HO107/2324/441/15

Tina
Later:
Ordnance Map, Asylum just below the U in Dewsbury, doesn't indicate a building so perhaps the name for a little district/burb/area?
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/mapshe ... =304&y=220

"DAW GREEN, in the township and parish of Dewsbury, liberty of Wakefield, half a mile from Dewsbury, Asylum was an area of Daw Green.

Pickles George, Ber 2
woolen miller 1837 directory

Tina wrote: Marmaduke Tolson!

Didn't they have fabulous names!

Definitely reads Sylum but that might just have been what the Enumerator wrote, particularly in view of Sue's find.

I'm getting the feeling from the description, particularly of "Poor House Lane" that there may have been a Workhouse/Asylum which was no longer there, you know how roads came to be name after a landmark.

We're just guessing, what we need is somebody with a knowledge of the local history so I've left a question on Rootschat to see if somebody knows.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... 317.0.html

Thank you both for input and for taking an interest in this.
It's much appreciated.

Tina

No reply as yet from anybody with local knowledge.

when reading the genuki site for dewsbury and its directories I got the distinct impression that the areas of poorhouse lane, Asylum and Daw Green were a huddle of crofters cottages for the woolen industry Dewsbury had a mill. what if these were church owned cottages for the indigent and they did piece work for the mill as payment to the church. kind of like the cottage poor houses

Theree have been a few more snippets added to the Rootschat post
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... 317.0.html

Thanks very much Mary for the link and also for reminding me how good rootschat is.
I've joined!
I love your avatar of St Chad's.

Cheers

Tina

Tina wrote:I love your avatar of St Chad's.

Unfortunately I don't believe I have any affiliations with the church except to honour it as a wonderful place to visit, there's so much history there, I wish I had some ancestors who married in it but so far as I know it seems unlikely.

Mary