Hertfordshire Genealogy

 

During the Victorian period the problem of people who, through mental illness, could not play a full part in society, was to bury them in vast institutions, sometimes for life. A cluster were built in the South West of Hertfordshire, several to provide for people from the London/Middlesex area. 

This website provides information about all the hospitals in the St Albans area, as well as dealing with wider aspects of family history in Hertfordshire.