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Month: March 2021

FURY, Sylvester
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Asylum Kids Long Grove Asylum Males

FURY, Sylvester

Theresa Kenefick-ConwayMarch 30, 2021November 17, 2025

Found wandering the streets by the Police, aged 3 years old. Sylvester was taken to the workhouse.

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SCHMIDT, Ethel
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Female Burials Long Grove Asylum

SCHMIDT, Ethel

Anne DaviesMarch 25, 2021October 27, 2022
b. 1887 - d. 1910 On 26 September 1870 Hanrich Frederick Ferdinand Schmidt married Sophia Hutchings at Christ Church, Somers Town, Pancras. Ferdinand, the name he seems to have used,...
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MAIDMENT, Edward
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Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

MAIDMENT, Edward

Stephen MundayMarch 24, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1867 - d.1918 Intro. According to Poor Law Removal and Settlement records, Edward Maidment, aged 46 and described as ‘lunatic’ was, on the 25th of April, 1914, resident at Long...
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ELLERTON, Edward
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Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

ELLERTON, Edward

Steve JohnsonMarch 24, 2021October 8, 2021
b.1871 - d.1910 - Hoxton Crew Gang Member - The story of Edward hit an obstacle very early on. The Find a Grave index assumes a birth in Ireland with...
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STAFFORD, Henry Alfred
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Long Grove Asylum Males

STAFFORD, Henry Alfred

Stephen MundayMarch 22, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1864 - d.1918 Henry Alfred Stafford was born in Holborn in the third quarter of 1864 to George Richard Stafford, aged 28, and his wife Emma (née Nichols), aged 27....
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BECKETT, Ebenezer John
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Long Grove Asylum Males

BECKETT, Ebenezer John

Stephen MundayMarch 22, 2021October 24, 2022
b.1867 - d.1918 Black Horse Pub c1834, Richard Beckett (Ebenezer's Grandfather) Ebenezer John Beckett was born in the second quarter of 1867 in the village of Steeple Claydon, Aylesbury, in...
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MASTIN, Alfred
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Long Grove Asylum Males

MASTIN, Alfred

Louise TaylorMarch 17, 2021October 25, 2022
b.1864 - d.1909 Alfred was born in September 1864 in Bethnal Green, to William age 34 and Mary age 33, her maiden name was Haddon. Alfred had 2 older brothers...
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GOYMER, Hugh
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Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

GOYMER, Hugh

John WillmottMarch 17, 2021October 8, 2021
b.1879 - d.1917 Hugh Goymer born 16th of January 1879. Hugh Goymer was born in Stockwell in the London area of Lambeth, on the16th of January 1879 to Abraham and...
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YAXLEY, Alice
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Female Burials Long Grove Asylum

YAXLEY, Alice

Martin KnightMarch 15, 2021October 5, 2021
b.1873 - d.1915 Alice Gray/Grey was born in 1873 in the village of Ashill, near Swaffham in Norfolk. Her mother was Sarah Gray and she was unmarried when she gave...
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BROOK, Herbert
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Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

BROOK, Herbert

Louise TaylorMarch 15, 2021September 17, 2021
b. 1864 - d.1909 Herbert was born 10 April 1864; their address was 1 Sparkes Cottage, Graham Street West, St. George, Hanover Square, London. His father was James Joseph Brooks...
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YEO, Marian Elizabeth
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Asylum Ewell Epileptic Colony Female Burials Photo

YEO, Marian Elizabeth

Lesley LeeMarch 11, 2021October 17, 2022

The silver polisher

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BELL, Herbert John
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Asylum Horton Asylum Males

BELL, Herbert John

Linda MartinMarch 9, 2021October 27, 2022
b.1855 - d.1909 Herbert John BELL was buried in Horton Cemetery on 18th June 1909. According to the Lunacy Patients Admission Register he had been admitted to Horton Asylum on...
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FUZZENS, William
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Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

FUZZENS, William

Martin KnightMarch 8, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1875 - d.1915 Intro The wider Fuzzens family are well-established in Windsor, particularly, and one member was the first Labour Mayor of the town. There is a Fuzzens Walk in...
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WILSON, Frederick Leon
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Asylum Ewell Epileptic Colony Males Photo

WILSON, Frederick Leon

Lesley LeeMarch 8, 2021February 26, 2023

The common story of someone with epilepsy whose life was marred by a lack of understanding of the condition.

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Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

BEADON, Walter

Martin KnightMarch 6, 2021October 24, 2022
b.~1871 - d.1915 The story of Walter Beadon is among the saddest of the many troubled souls who ended their days at Long Grove Hospital and subsequently received a pauper’s...
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CUSHNIE, George Barnes
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Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

CUSHNIE, George Barnes

Stephen MundayMarch 6, 2021October 25, 2022
b.1867 - d.1918 1860s George Barnes Cushnie was born on the 28th August 1867 to William Cushnie, aged 38, and his wife Eliza (née King), aged 36. At the time...
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COPPING, Ada
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Asylum Ewell Epileptic Colony Female Burials Photo

COPPING, Ada

Sheila CummingMarch 3, 2021October 17, 2022

An epileptic since birth

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17 Nov

Hendrik B Koekkoek - youngest son of Dutch painter Hermanus Koekkoek (1815-1882).

His grandfather was Dutch painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek.

Hendrik’s paintings can be found in museums,
...including the museum Paul Tetar van Elven in Delft, Holland.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/koekkoek-hendrick-b/

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17 Nov

Sylvester first appears in the workhouse in 1866. He was found wandering, aged 5 years and is taken to the workhouse. He is discharged the same day to his mother. There starts his institutional life.... Sylvester spent his whole life in institutions.
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14 Nov

Félix Garcia was a famed Spanish dancer, and art subject of Picasso. He was confined at the Long Grove asylum, in Epsom, after he started acting peculiar, soon after being possibly deceived by The ...Ballet Russes director, Sergei Diaghilev.
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14 Nov

Tottie Fay - The Worst and Wickedest woman in London! I challenge you, upon reading her story, not to feel admiration for her courage, in the overwhelming face of adversity, and to feel compassion... in droves for her life-story and eventual fate.

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