John Pope Stratford

1854 - 1891  (37 years)

• Name	John Pope Stratford
  Birth	8 May 1854	Marylebone, Middlesex, England
  Christening	4 Jun 1854	St Marylebone Church, Marylebone, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
  Census	1881	Royal Marine Barracks, Chatham, Kent, England
  	RG11/889 folio 34 page 53 John Stratford - Blacksmith's Crew - Married - age 24 - born London, Middlesex
  Workhouse	Between 5 Aug 1887 and 8 Aug 1887	Medway Union Workhouse, Magpie Hall Lane, Chatham, Kent, England
  Census	1891	County Lunatic Asylum, Barming, Kent, England
  	RG12/688 folio 141 page 22 S.J. - Patient - Single - 36 - Discharged Marine - born County of Kent - Dementia
  Military	Chatham, Kent, England
  	Royal Marine
  	ADM 159/36/722 Register number 722 John Stratford enlisted 23 Dec 1873 at Westminster. Description - 5 foot 6 inches, sallow complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes. Served on HMS Opal - 12 Jan 1876 to 16 May 1879 Initially commenced service on the Pacific Station, and while on passage in 1876 hit a rock in the Strait of Magellan. The ship was damaged and repairs were undertaken at Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, where there was a Royal Naval Dockyard. On 13 May 1879 John Stratford was invalided for sea sickness in the Pacific station. Served on HMS Triumph - 17 May 1879 to 13 Jul 1879 Back at Chatham Division - 14 Jul 1879 to 2 Jul 1881 At HMS Pembroke - 3 Jul 1881 to 30 Sep 1883 HMS Pembroke was the name given to the shore barracks at Chatham. Back at Chatham Division - 1 Oct 1883 to 30 May 1884 At HMS Pembroke - 31 May 1884 to 30 Sep 1886 Back at Chatham Division - 1 Oct 1886 to 6 May 1887 Passed Gunnery Sea Service Drill 25 Mar 1887 Passed Musketry Drill 27 Apr 1887 at Milton Invalided to Meleville Hospital 7 May 1887 with Dementia Discharged 12 May 1887 General Character Very Good In possession of three good conduct badges
  Death	28 May 1891	County Lunatic Asylum, Barming, Kent, England
  	Cause: General Paralysis of the Insane about 3 years
  Notes	(Medical):General paralysis of the insane (GPI) emerged as a new and devastating form of insanity during the early nineteenth century... Although the possibility of syphilis had been suggested as early as 1857, this was not generally accepted in the nineteenth century, when the disease was thought to be multi-causal, relating largely to the destructive influences of the urban environment and in particular to the excesses of alcohol, tobacco and sex. Not until the early twentieth century did the 'syphilitic hypothesis' begin to achieve widespread acceptance... The disease inflicted degenerative dementia upon its sufferers in tandem with the development of muscular incoordination and paralysis, hence the disease's pseudonym 'dementia paralytica'. Most of those diagnosed were middle-aged males in the prime of their working lives... By the later nineteenth century up to 20% of British male asylum admissions received the diagnosis... It was not until the discovery of penicillin in the 1940s that diagnosis of and death from GPI began to decline in British asylums. [source: The most deadly disease of asylumdom: general paralysis of the insane and Scottish psychiatry, c.1840– 1940; G Davis - Wellcome Lecturer in the History of Medicine, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK - J R Coll Physicians Edinb 2012; 42:266– 73 - http://dx.doi.org/10.4997/JRCPE.2012.316 © 2012 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ]
  Person ID	I7565	FamilyTree1
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2024

  
  

  Father	William Sly Stratford,   b. Abt 1822, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England d. Between 1871 and 1881 (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Jane Herbert Pope,   b. 20 Sep 1818, Woolwich, Kent, England d. 17 Apr 1856, Middlesex Hospital, Marylebone, Middlesex, England (Age 37 years)
  Family ID	F2436	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart