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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

VAISEY Cecil James
VAISEY Cecil James
VAISEY Cecil James
VAISEY Cecil James
VAISEY Cecil James
VALENTINE (Aboriginal)
VALENTINE Frank
VALENTINE Frank ?
VALENTINE William
VALENZUELA Alfred (see BALENZUELA)
VALLAS John
VALLAS John
VAN DREKE Bertha Ernestine (see VANDREIKE)
VANCE John
VANCE William Percy
VANDALEUR Matthias
VANDELEUR Maggie
VANDELEUR Maggie
VANDELEUR Susan
VANDELEUR Susan
VANDERWOLF Albert
VANDREIKE Bertha E
VANDREIKE Bertha Ernestine
VANDRIEKE August
VANDRIEKE Christina
VANE George
VARISCHETTE David
VARNEY Margaret
VARNEY Margaret
VARNEY Margaret
VARNEY Margaret
VARNEY Margaret
VARNEY Margaret
VAUGHAN Alfred Louis
VAUGHAN Alfred Louis
VAUGHAN C
VAUGHAN C
VAUGHAN Charles
VAUGHAN Charles
VAUGHAN Charles
VAUGHAN Charles
VAUGHAN Charles F
VAUGHAN Christina Elizabeth
VAUGHAN George A S
VAUGHAN Mary
VAUGHAN William Henry
VAWDEN James Smale
VAWDEN James Smale
VEANDEAN Eva
VEHYL William
VEITCH Robert
VEITCH Thomas
VEITCH Thomas
VELLACOTT Joseph
VELONG William
VENAGLIA .. (child of Angelo)
VENAGLIA Angelo
VENAGLIA Angelo
VENAGLIA Francis Emilio ?
VENE LACK (South Sea Islander)
VERAPPA (Cingalese)
VERAPPA (Indian)
VERAPPA
VERCY George
VERDE Monte
VERDI Monte
VEREY George
VERIS DOON (South Sea Islander)
VERISDOON (South Sea Islander)
VERMOL Charles
VERNON Anna
VERNON Annie
VERNON Charles
VERNON Joseph
VERRALL Ann
VERRALL Ann
VERRALL Ann
VERRALL John
VERSTAN Kenneth
VESPER Emanuel
VESPER Emanuel
VESPERMAN William
VEYAHL Ludwig
VEYHL Ludwig (see VEYAHL)
VEYHL William
VEYHL William
VEYHL William
VICKERY Albert
VICKERY May Mary
VICKERY Ruby
VICKERY Ruby
VICTOR James
VICTORSEN Annie
VIGERS George Edward
VIGERS Henry
VILLERS Anne De (see DE VILLERS Anne)
VINCENT Charles
VINCENT Charles
VINCENT Richard
VINCENT Richard
VINE Eliz
VINEY Jane
VISKOVITCH George
VIVIAN Charles Henry
VIVIAN Henry Charles
VIVIAN Henry Charles
VIZE Mary Ann
VOGT Mathais
VOGT Matthias
VOGT Matthias
VOLENTINE Frank ? (see VALENTINE)
VOLK Christina
VOLKMAN Arnold Clive
VON DOHREN Ellen
VON DOHREN Ellen Maria
VON GAMPSTON Henry
VON GAMPTON Henry
VON GAMPTON Henry (see GAMPTON)
VON GAMPTON Henry (see GAMPTON)
VOSS Christian Henry
VOSS Eggert Henrich
VOSS Emma
VOSS Frederick Johann
VOWLES Elizabeth
VOWLES Matilda Catherine

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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