August 9, 2021 - Friends of Horton Cemetery

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

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...

Horton Asylum

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...

Horton Asylum

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....

Horton Asylum

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...

Horton Asylum

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

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,...