Irish Frances 1734

Irish, Frances 1734 – 1805				Father:	Irish,	John		1712-1769
				Mother:	,	Mary		1715-1772

Birth date	Birth place	Registered	County	District	Parish	GRO ref.	Christening	Place	Borough
Oct 1734	Chobham	n/a	Surrey	Chobham	St Lawrence	n/a	11 Oct 1734	St Lawrence	Chobham
Death date	Death place	Buried	County	District	Parish	GRO ref.	Cause
Dec 1805	Egham	6 Dec 1805	Surrey	Egham	St John	n/a

Irish, Thomas Egham Surrey 1735-1773	Marriage
	Date	19 Dec 1763
	Place	St Alphege
	District	Greenwich
	County	Kent
	GRO ref.	n/a

Children		Birth date	Birth place	Death date	Death place	Marriage date	Marriage place	Spouse
Frances Irish		Sep 1765	Greenwich	Aug 1824	Chelsea	7 Nov 1797	City of London	Meshach Hobbs
Robert Stracey Irish		about 1766	probably Greenwich	June 1831	Frimley, Surrey	6 Jan 1801	Egham	Jane Willis

Records
Date	Source		Residence		Occupation
1767	“Egham, Surrey: a history of the parish under church and crown” Frederic F. Turner, 1926, Egham: Box & Gilham		Great Fosters House		"In 1767 a Dr Irish kept it as a private lunatic asylum."
31 Mar 1773	Thomas’ will		Great Foster House, Surrey
1798-1803	Surrey Land Tax Records		Ash, Frimley, Surrey		Mrs Frances Irish and son Robert joint land occupiers (proprietor James Lawrell)
1799	“The Lunacy Commission 1845-60, with special reference to the implementation of policy in Kent and Surrey,” N.B. Hervey, 1987, Doctoral Thesis, University of Bristol		Frimley Lodge, Frimley		Frances and Robert opened a lunatic asylum. Four of the original inmates transferred from Great Fosters.
28 Jun 1806	Probate		Frimley, Surrey

Additional Information
Thomas Irish’s will in April 1773 included provision for his wife Frances and his two children, Frances and Robert, until they attained the age of 21 years. Regarding the asylum at Great Fosters, N.B. Hervey said that "until 1816 the business was shared between the Irish family and a local surgeon Richard Brown" (Hervey, N.B. 1987, “The Lunacy Commission 1845-60, with special reference to the implementation of policy in Kent and Surrey,” Doctoral Thesis, University of Bristol). In 1700 a David Irish, “practitioner in physick and surgery,” published a book providing advice on “melancholy, phrensie, and madness.” David was very likely a close relative of Frances and Thomas. (Note that the aforementioned link contains inaccuracies regarding Irish family relationships.)