Rosalind A C Randall (1924-1967)

Dates

Birth: July-September 1924 York, Yorkshire, UK
Father: Richard Walter Kimbel Randall 1890-1957
Mother: Alma Adelaide Pilgrim 1895-1931

Marriage: Believed not married

Death: October-December 1967 Colchester, Essex, UK

Children

None known

Notes

Birth of Rosalind A C Randall, mother's maiden name Pilgrim, in FreeBMD in July-September 1924 in York (9d 73).

Her mother died in Romford in 1931 and her father married Winifred Elsie Bishop on 11 October 1935 St James, Muswell Hill.

In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Rosalind A C Randall born 2 July 1924 and a patient at the Royal Eastern Counties Institution, Colchester, Essex.

Death of Rosalind A C Randall in FreeBMD in October-December 1967 aged 43 in Colchester (4a 692).

There are thirteen entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Rosalind A C Randall.

Entry in Children's Homes

The Eastern Counties Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles was established at Colchester in 1859. It occupied a former hotel building near the North Station where, since 1850, branch of the Park House hospital for idiots, Highgate, had been in operation and known as Essex Hall. The new asylum, only the second of its type in England, served the counties of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire. It was financed partly by voluntary subscriptions and partly by payments from some of the patients. The premises were steadily expanded and the number of inmates rose from 66 in 1862 to 245 in 1897, with children forming the bulk of the institution's intake. Patients were initially admitted for a period of five years, with up to 20 per cent then being offered a permanent home. [...] On March 17th, 1922, the asylum, by now known as the Royal Eastern Counties Institution for the Mentally Defective, was certified to operate an Industrial School, allowing it to take young people committed by magistrates under the Mental Deficiency Act. Its accommodation then numbered over 600 places. [...] In 1933, the establishment became a Special Approved School, one of the new institutions introduced by the 1933 Children and Young Persons Act to replace the existing system of Reformatories and Industrial Schools. The Royal Eastern provided accommodation for 17 mentally defective girls committed under the Act. In 1936, it was decided to end the use of Approved Schools for such individuals and the Asylum's certification for this purpose was withdrawn on September 29th, 1937. Essex Hall was closed in 1985 and the buildings demolished. The site was sold in 1988 and is now covered by modern housing.

Relationship

Rosalind A C Randall was the daughter of Richard Walter Kimbel Randall, husband of Winifred Elsie Bishop, my first cousin once removed.

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