Source Information

Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Asylum Records, 1853-1940 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2017.
Original data:

Asylum Records, 1862-1937. VPRS 7397-7401,7403-7407,7419-7420,7424,7430,7478-7479,7483-7488 . Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria.

About Victoria, Australia, Asylum Records, 1853-1940

This collection is comprised of Asylum Records between 1853-1940 from the Public Record Office Victoria.

The following information will typically be found:

  • Name of patient
  • Age and birth place of patient
  • Date admitted into Asylum
  • Reason they were admitted
  • Photographs also occassionally appear