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Month: November 2021

BENTLEY or MACHON, Minnie
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BENTLEY or MACHON, Minnie

Steve JohnsonNovember 25, 2021October 27, 2022

The young bookkeeper and the Silk Merchant

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BUNCE, Maurice
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BUNCE, Maurice

Stephen MundayNovember 25, 2021November 25, 2021
b.1861 - d.1918 Introduction Maurice (or Morris) Bunce was born in Lambeth in the first quarter of 1861, to Maurice Bunce, a labourer, and his wife Johanna. Both of Maurice’s...
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MORGAN, Jemima

Theresa Kenefick-ConwayNovember 25, 2021February 16, 2022
b.1859- d.1910 Jemima is a name of Hebrew origin meaning dove, a bird often given as a symbol of peace. We can only hope when researching that the people whose...
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JELLIMAN, Elizabeth
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JELLIMAN, Elizabeth

Stephen MundayNovember 2, 2021November 5, 2021
b.1850 - d.1918 Elizabeth Jelliman was born in Shoreditch in the third quarter of 1850 to Daniel Jelliman and his wife Elizabeth (née Knowles). At the time of Elizabeth’s birth,...
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BELLAMY, Louisa
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BELLAMY, Louisa

Steve JohnsonNovember 2, 2021October 24, 2022

Lost her twin brother, aged 4

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FRASER, Arthur Alfred
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FRASER, Arthur Alfred

Stephen MundayNovember 2, 2021November 16, 2021
b.1865-d.1918 1860s Arthur Alfred Fraser (or Frazer) was born on March 16th, 1865, in St James, Westminster, to Thomas Fraser and his wife Elizabeth Emma (née Barker). At the time...
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GOMMERING, Elizabeth
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GOMMERING, Elizabeth

Theresa Kenefick-ConwayNovember 1, 2021November 5, 2021
b.1858 -d. 1909 It is probably irrelevant but interesting that Elizabeth Gommering has a number of significant dates in her timeline. She is admitted to one asylum on St George’s...
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@horton_cemetery ·
9 Aug

After 17 years in Manor Asylum, Epsom, Mary Ann Hall was transferred to Ewell Epileptic Colony when the asylum was requisitioned as a war hospital in 1916.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/hall-mary-ann/
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9 Aug

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@horton_cemetery ·
7 Aug

James Beston spent most of his life in workhouses, an orphanage and then Horton Asylum.

He died of TB in 1903, aged just 23 years.

Poverty - from which there was no escape - shaped his life.

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@horton_cemetery ·
6 Aug

Horton Cemetery - the 500th Life Story Published

A Discarded Headstone
Someone Cared Enough to Remember

Marjorie Ethel Young (1921-1948) buried in the cemetery.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/young-marjorie-ethel/

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