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CURSON, Charles Robert
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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...
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CAMPLISSON, George
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Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

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...
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KIMBER, Thomas
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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...
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DUNKINSON, Matilda
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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...
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LANDROS, Peter
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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...
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JAMES, Annie
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Asylum Female Burials Manor Asylum

JAMES, Annie

Steve JohnsonDecember 7, 2021February 13, 2026
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,...
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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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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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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.
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