Trying to obtain death details of my grandmother Elizabeth Knight (nee West)

Hi Gary, 

I have located your grandparents on the 1911 Census records: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Pembroke_East/Park_Avenue/59304/ .

The asylumm known as 'Richmond' that your grandmother may have been an inmate of is actually St. Brendan's Hospital. Some general information on the Hospital is available from http://www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/Medical_sources/HR.htm. 

Also a google site https://sites.google.com/site/iimhlinireland2010/iimhl-ireland/mental-health-in-ireland-1/history-of-mental-health-services-in-ireland/mental-health-museum-collection may have some interesting information concerning mental health and asylums in Ireland during your grandmother's time. 

Have you tried Church of Ireland parish registers? Registers are available for about one third of the parishes, however many were destroyed in the Public Records Office in Dublin in 1922. Most are still held by the local clergy, although some are in the National Archives of Ireland and others are in the Representative Church Body Library in Dublin. A list of all surviving registers is available in the National Archives. http://ireland.anglican.org/about/42 and http://www.nationalarchives.ie/. Occassionally information, including obituaries or death notices, are included in these records. 

Another possible source of information regarding your grandmother may be https://familysearch.org/ provided free by the Church of Latter-Day Saints. 

Information regarding death records in Dublin can be accessed via http://dublinnorth.rootsireland.ie/ for a fee. 

I wish you the best of luck in your search. 

Please make sure you link anyone else in your family who is interested in their Irish heritage to our site - and indeed anyone else you know of Irish heritage.

Kind regards,

Cynthia O'Connor

Genealogy Support

Ireland Reaching Out

Hi Gary,

I found a few things that you might find interesting concerning Dr. Fleury. 

http://www.historyireland.com/volumes/volume13/issue2/features/?id=113814 Elenora Fluery is the 2nd person discussed in this article. 

She was quite the pioneering woman, it seems she was also arrested for treating republican prisoners.

This is mentioned in a book by Sinead McCoole In 2003, No Ordinary Women: Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 was co-published  by the O?Brien Press & The University of Wisconsin Press.

The source for that information in her book is a press cutting from 1960 about Dr Fleury which is in the author's personal collection. She can be contacted at http://www.sineadmccoole.com . 

A link  to toronto daily news where she is discussed:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=34&dat=18900614&id=sQ8IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xDYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1990,2931540
The article heading is   Another Clever Girl

Dr Fleury is also mentioned in the political papers and correspondence of John Redmond.  On 16th May 1916 she wrote seeking his input to obtain the release of a friend of hers, Dr Kathleen Lynn, she wrote again on the 25th of May thanking him.
link to doc
www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/Redmond.pdf

She is also mentioned three times at
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/bmhsearch/search.jsp
search for fleury. 

Kind regards,

Cynthia O'Connor

Genealogy Support

Ireland Reaching Out

Hi Gary,

Dr. Geraldine Fleury died 11th November 1939, if you include your email address I can send you the obit.

Brendan

www.researchireland.com

Hi BrendanJoseph,

Thank you for your note,

My email address is gknight3@bigpond.net.au

Not sure which Dr Fluery we are looking for. Dad referred to her as Nina.

Our deceased Canadian cousin, indicated that he had a copy of an obituary, which disappeared just prior to his death.

I also know there was a Dr. Eleanor Lillian Fluery

Thanks for your interest

Gary Knight

Hi Cynthia O'Connor,

Thanks very much for your assistance

Cheers

Gary & Wendy Knight

Hi Gary,

I have the right one, a very famous lady, she worked in Portrane a famous mental institution.

I will send your her obit.

Brendan

www.researchireland.com