December 2021 - Friends of Horton Cemetery

Long Grove Asylum Males

CURSON, Charles Robert

Stephen MundayDecember 31, 2021April 7, 2022

b.1864-d.1917 When Charles Curson died in Long Grove in 1917, he had spent the last seven years of his life in this institution. A married man with two children and...

CAMPLISSON, George

Stephen MundayDecember 30, 2021February 16, 2022

b.1868-d.1917 Although his birth year was estimated incorrectly in a number of censuses and workhouse registers, our research confirms that George Camplisson was born in Dublin on the 9th of...

Long Grove Asylum Males

KIMBER, Thomas

Stephen MundayDecember 30, 2021April 7, 2022

b.1865-d.1918 We know that Thomas Kimber died in Long Grove on the 17th of May 1918 at the age of 51. It has not yet been possible to find an...

Asylum Female Burials Manor Asylum Photo

DUNKINSON, Matilda

Sally NestorDecember 16, 2021April 26, 2023

b.1878 - d.1907 Dunkinson has been spelt in a variety of ways on the sources discovered, however I believe they are transcription errors and that the documents found all refer...

Long Grove Asylum Males

LANDROS, Peter

A CDecember 8, 2021December 8, 2021

b.1870 - d.1917 Calculated from his age of 47 when he died in 1917, he was born about 1870. The GRO has no birth registered under this name – perhaps...

Asylum Female Burials Manor Asylum

JAMES, Annie

Steve JohnsonDecember 7, 2021November 1, 2022

b.1852 - d.1899 On 31st July the cemetery received its first burial – Annie JAMES, who had been at the Manor. Her shroud cost 8d, the gravediggers were paid 10/6d,...