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Does your family history have someone who 'vanished'? If you cannot find a death certificate, or if children were raised by someone other than a parent, check mental asylum records. Reasons for admission include epilepsy, head injury, alcoholism, congenital defects, depression (including post-natal depression), etc. Many patients (adults and children) spent only days or weeks in an asylum before being discharged, and descendants would be unaware of that. I've spent many years creating indexes to make the information more accessible.

Mental asylums created documents whose usefulness varies. Other agencies and government departments created different types of records that are often even more useful. The records vary in content, but some give reasons for admission, and some have superb details about patients' relatives.

Before you check the list of names, please read this explanation carefully:

• Names are from more than 70 series of original records.
• Some of these people were interstate or overseas, but most were in Queensland (Australia).
• Some were in an asylum. Others were only suspected of being of unsound mind.
• The original records are located in archives or libraries in Brisbane (Queensland).
• Dates of documents that I indexed: earliest 1860, latest 1985 (but most are before 1950).
• Names without a surname, eg 'BILLY (Aboriginal)', are listed under the first letter of the name.
• Scroll through the list to find spelling variants. Some names are spelled incorrectly in the records.
• '..' means either 'I could not decipher some letters' or 'name not specified'.
• A question mark means the spelling is in doubt or handwriting is difficult to read.
• Names beginning with 'Mc' precede other 'M' surnames.
• Apostrophes have been removed from names (eg, O'GRADY is listed as OGRADY).
• Some diacritical marks such as umlauts were removed by indexing software.
• If there are multiple entries for a name, there may be multiple people with the same name, or multiple documents (each with different information) for one person.
• For more information, follow the instructions on Insanity Services.

 Names beginning with: A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   Y   Z

IBBETSON Edmund
IBBETSON Edward
IBEN Charles William
ICEA Mary Ann
ICEA Mary Anne
IDA (Aboriginal)
IDA (Aboriginal)
IDDLES William Henry
IHLEN Johan Thorne
ILLIDGE Mary Bailey
ILLIDGE Mary Bailey
ILLIDGE Mary Bailey
IMAKURE Emily
IN HOW (Chinese)
INCH Robert Wotherspoon
INCHCLIFF John
IND Alliah (Indian)
IND Hephze
IND Hephzebah
IND Hephzi
INGHAM Charles
INGHAM Edward James
INGHAM Elizabeth Rebecca
INGLEFIELD Harry
INGLIS Patrick
INGRAM Ellen
INKLEY Arthur
INKLEY Arthur
INNES David Carrington
INNES Leslie Robert
INNES William Alfred
INNES William Alfred
INNES William Alfred
INNES William Alfred
IRELAND George
IRELAND Lucy
IRELAND Mary Agnes
IRELAND Thomas
IRELAND William
IRISH Frank Victor
IRISH Victor
IRLANE William
IRONMONGER Rachel
IRONS Carrie Augusta Louisa
IRVINE Agnes Josephine
IRVINE Alexander
IRVINE Alexander Maxwell
IRVINE Doris
IRVING Marion
IRVING Marion Emily
IRWIN Catherine
IRWIN Jane
IRWIN John Witheron
IRWIN Michael
IRWIN William Archibald
ISAAC David
ISAAC David
ISAAC Eva Evangeline Frances
ISAACS William
ISAACSON Francis H
ISAACSON Francis W
ISABEL (Aboriginal)
ISAKSON John Emil
ISLOP John Pickering
IVENS Harriet Louisa
IVENS Harriett L
IVES Susan
IVES Susan
IVETT George Palmer
IVIMEY A J
IVIMEY Aleck J
IVIMEY Alexander J

Names beginning with other letters

Explanation of these names

For information about mental asylum patients, follow the instructions on 'Insanity Services'.

Other Suggestions (links open in a new window)

Many useful sources are listed in my mini-guide Researching Mental Asylum Patients.

Children in Mental Asylums.

Annual Reports of asylums (Queensland).

Other records that I'm indexing (watch for announcements on What's New).

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