Mental illness has always been carefully hidden from public gaze.
The 1911 census shows there were 91 patients confined at Lancaster's County Lunatic Asylum from what is now South Cumbrian.
That included 34 from Barrow, 32 from Ulverston and 15 from Dalton - plus others from Askam, Windermere, Cark, Coniston, Backbarrow and Broughton.
Some had been there for a year - some for most of their lives.
The institution was later known as the Lancaster County Mental Hopsital and the Lancaster Moor Hospital and could hold up to 3,000 patients.
It closed in 2000 and much of the sprawling site, near the M6, has been converted into apartments.
The site opened in 1816, was extended in 1824 and then saw the building of a major new "annexe" designed by Arnold W. Kershaw.
A chapel was designed by Edward Paley, the Lancaster architect involved in the building of many schools, churches, railway stations and public buidings in Furness and Millom.
Patients in 1911, the most recent census we have details from, were identified only by initials and were almost all classified simply as "lunatic" - likely to include everything from dementia to mental illnesses which can now be controlled by drugs outside forbidding Victorian institutions.
In many cases it was not known where the patients were born but where that information is available it reveals a wide geographic coverage from anywhere in the old Lancashire to Cornwall, London, the Isle of Man, Worcester, Sheerness, Finland, Ireland and even Melbourne in Australia.
For South Cumbrian patients at Lancaster we have divided them by place of birth and given age, occupation (where applicable) and marital status
Askam:
Labourer, aged 30, single man
Backbarrow:
Waitress, aged 35, single woman
Barrow:
Joiner, aged 45, single man
Fish hawker, aged 47, widowed woman
Engine fitter, aged 29, single man
Gardener, aged 43, single man
Machineman, aged 40, single man
Railway clerk, aged 54, single man
Farm servant, aged 40, single man
Stonemason, aged 34, single man
Labourers, aged 31, 34, 34 and 52, all single man
Steelworks plater, aged 33, married man
Boilermaker, aged 46, married man
Clerk, aged 27, single man
Gunner in the Royal Horse Artillery, aged 37, single man
Dressmaker, aged 23, single woman
Charwoman, aged 65, widowed woman
Domestic servants, aged 26, 34, 41 and 51, all single woman
Cabinet maker, aged 49, married man
Mill operative, aged 45, single woman
Steelworks labourer, aged 47, single man
Married women, aged 35, 49, 58 and 63
Single men, aged 31, 33, 41, 47
Single woman, aged 45
Broughton:
Single man, aged 30
Single woman, aged 43
Cark:
Single woman, aged 57
Coniston:
General labourer, aged 40, single man
Married woman, aged 68
Dalton:
Domestic servants, aged 51, 66, all single woman
Married woman, aged 42 and 69
Post messenger, aged 28, single man
Private soldier, third Battalion, Grenadier Guards, aged 39, single man
Cook, aged 66, widowed woman
Joiner, aged 39, single man
Iron miners, aged 42, 52, both single men and aged 53, married man
Widowed woman, aged 74
Dressmaker, aged 41, single woman
Shoemaker, aged 35, single man
Pork butcher, aged 44, single man
Ulverston:
Dressmaker, aged 55, single woman
Married woman, aged, 36
Single men, aged 29, 37, 43 and 74
Married women, aged 37, 39, 41, 47, 63 and 68
Single women, aged 38 and 62
Labourer, aged 25, single man
Housekeeper, aged 75, single woman
General labourer, aged 69, single man
Domestic servant, aged 38, single woman
Domestic servants, aged 28, 34, 36, 45, 52, all single woman
Charwoman, aged 59, single woman
Shoemaker, aged 47, single man
Patent knitter fitter, aged 42, single man
Paper mill hand, aged 41, single man
Steelworks labourer, aged 54, married man
Labourers, aged 34 and 50, both single men and aged 74, widowed man
Iron ore miner, aged 38, single man
Windermere:
Accountant, aged 41, single man
Married woman, aged 54
Sorting clerk for the Post Office, aged 29, single man
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