March 6, 2022 - Friends of Horton Cemetery

TARR, Samuel Peter

Stephen MundayMarch 6, 2022March 8, 2023

b.1862-d.1917 From early adulthood mental illness overshadowed Samuel Peter Tarr’s life. He would spend more than thirty years in mental health institutions and die in Long Grove at the age...

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SHORTLAND, Edward James

Jenni LlewellynMarch 6, 2022March 8, 2023

b.1853-d.1908 Edward was born on 15th March 1853 in Whitechapel and baptised on 10th April at St Botolph Without, in Aldgate. His parents were Edward Shortland and Maria née Jones....

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JAMES, Susan

Jenni LlewellynMarch 6, 2022March 8, 2023

b. 1865-d.1908 Born in the June quarter of 1865, in the Greenwich registration district, to John Street and his wife Margaret née Bower. They had married in June 1846 in...

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BLEWITT, Emily Florence

Stephen MundayMarch 6, 2022March 8, 2023

b.1859-d.1917 The 1860s -Emily’s parents Emily Florence Blewitt was born on the 4th of July 1859 to Charles James Blewitt, a wine merchant, and his wife Ann (née Allum). At...

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AUSTIN, Percy John

Tony McGarryMarch 6, 2022March 8, 2023

b.1870-d.1919 He was born in the March quarter of 1870, in Bridgend, Wales (reference 11a 483). In the 1871 Census, at an unnumbered house in Church Street, Midhurst Sussex present...