Irish Thomas 1735

Irish, Thomas 1735 – 1773				Father:	Irish,	David		1715-1774
				Mother:	,	Hannah		171?-1779

Birth date	Birth place	Registered	County	District	Parish	GRO ref.	Christening	Place	Borough
about 1735	Egham	n/a	Surrey			n/a
Death date	Death place	Buried	County	District	Parish	GRO ref.	Cause
Apr 1773	Egham		Surrey	Egham		n/a

Irish, Frances Chobham Surrey 1734-1805	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
22 April 1773	Probate		Great Foster House, Surrey

Additional Information
Thomas’s birth iinto this family is revealed by his references to his father and his brother-in-law in his 1773 will. From the baptism dates of his siblings it is likely that his birth took place approximately 1734-1736. 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.)