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PENN, Rose Esther
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PENN, Rose Esther

Linda Miles-CartwrightAugust 9, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1886-d.1917 Initial research difficulties The search for a Rose Esther Penn buried at Horton Estate Cemetery on 24th April 1917, aged 30, proved to be fruitless but research for a...
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JAKEMAN, George
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JAKEMAN, George

Roger MillerAugust 9, 2021October 4, 2021
b.1853-d.1908 George Jakeman died on 31st March 1908 in Long Grove Asylum and was buried at Horton Cemetery on the 4th April 1908. The Lunacy Patients Register shows that he...
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MORRISH, Mary
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MORRISH, Mary

Hazel BallanAugust 9, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1860 - d.1902 Mary’s age was recorded by the General Register Office as being 42 when she died unmarried on 21 September 1902. This would give her year of birth...
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LEVELL, Nellie Louisa
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LEVELL, Nellie Louisa

Elizabeth AumeerAugust 9, 2021October 25, 2022
b.1899 - d.1914 Nellie Louisa Levell was born on 17th November 1899 in Paddington, London. Her parents were Alfred Levell and Ellen Hodghton. Nellie was the fifth of six children....
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MCDONALD, Ethel
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MCDONALD, Ethel

Linda Miles-CartwrightAugust 9, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1882-d.1910 1880s Ethel was born on 14th September 1882 and was the fifth child of John Hamilton McDonald and Augusta Mahala Annie, née Page. They had married on 31st May...
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LEWIS, William Grosvenor Joseph
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LEWIS, William Grosvenor Joseph

Tony McGarryAugust 9, 2021October 3, 2021
b.1873-d.1918 William’s parents and older siblings William’s parents were John James Lewis and Louisa Lewis, née Jenkins. John was born in the December quarter of 1844, reference Strand 1 377....
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BOUTTELL, Catherine
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BOUTTELL, Catherine

Anne DaviesAugust 9, 2021October 27, 2022
b.1849-d.1910 Childhood Catherine was born in the June quarter of 1849 in South Witham, Lincolnshire to Robert Selby (b.1813) and his wife Elizabeth (née Merry b.1820). In the 1851 Census,...
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Video footage of our "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" event on #MentalHealthAwareness day, 10th Oct '23. We planted 1500+ ceramic flowers, painted by locals & school children. We had to hold it on ...the neighbouring farmland, as the cemetery is in private hands.

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17 Nov 2023

We need a passionate historian to help save the graves of these mental health patients. From all walks of life, these patients were laid to rest in a patch abandoned by the health service & sold ...to a developer.

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14 Nov 2023

A PLEA for HELP!
Please sign our petition to help us protect this cemetery from development by returning it to public hands.


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