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RAYSON, Walter Sydney
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RAYSON, Walter Sydney

Tony McGarrySeptember 21, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1873-d.1918 Walter’s parents Walter was born in the March quarter of 1873 in Southwark (reference St. Olave Southwark 1d 305). His parents, Philip  Rayson  and Agnes Amelia , née Ashby, ...
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GLENISTER, Arthur
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GLENISTER, Arthur

A CSeptember 21, 2022May 14, 2023
b.1873-d.1917 Long Grove records have Arthur dying in 1917 at the age of 44, so he was born about 1873. I found his birth registered in the General Record Office...
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CURWOOD, Thomas Edward
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CURWOOD, Thomas Edward

Jenni LlewellynSeptember 21, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1870-d.1908 Thomas’s parents Thomas Edward Curwood was born in the Kensington registration district in the December quarter of 1870 to Thomas Curwood and his wife Harriet née Beckett. Thomas senior...
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RIDLEY, Valentine George
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RIDLEY, Valentine George

Lesley LeeSeptember 21, 2022March 24, 2023
b.1892-d.1916 Valentine's family Valentine’s birth was registered in the 1st Q of 1892 in Greenwich, Kent. No baptism certificate has been found to confirm his DOB or mother’s name but...
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Hendrik B Koekkoek - youngest son of Dutch painter Hermanus Koekkoek (1815-1882).

His grandfather was Dutch painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek.

Hendrik’s paintings can be found in museums,
...including the museum Paul Tetar van Elven in Delft, Holland.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/koekkoek-hendrick-b/

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Sylvester first appears in the workhouse in 1866. He was found wandering, aged 5 years and is taken to the workhouse. He is discharged the same day to his mother. There starts his institutional life.... Sylvester spent his whole life in institutions.
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Félix Garcia was a famed Spanish dancer, and art subject of Picasso. He was confined at the Long Grove asylum, in Epsom, after he started acting peculiar, soon after being possibly deceived by The ...Ballet Russes director, Sergei Diaghilev.
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Tottie Fay - The Worst and Wickedest woman in London! I challenge you, upon reading her story, not to feel admiration for her courage, in the overwhelming face of adversity, and to feel compassion... in droves for her life-story and eventual fate.

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