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SWAN, Ernest Paul

Steve JohnsonJanuary 10, 2023March 8, 2023
b.~1879 - d.1947 Placeholder Info This is a placeholder for a future story to be written. Here are the facts known about Ernest from his file. Ernest Paul Day, Grave...
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    An epileptic since birth
    COPPING, Ada
    COPPING, Ada
  • MILTON, Maria
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  • BURTON, Susan
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  • HIRONS, Matilda Lucy
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    HIRONS, Matilda Lucy
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  • JACOBI, Frank 
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    JACOBI, Frank 
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  • EVANS, Ida Ellen
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    FLAXMAN, Elizabeth
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    CAMPBELL, Emily Elizabeth
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    CLOUD, James 
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    UNDERWOOD, Septimus Rowland
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    BOLTON, Thomas
    BOLTON, Thomas
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    SEARS, Emma
    SEARS, Emma
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    MAURISCHE, Marie Theresa
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    HODGES, Annie Harriet
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    JONES, Grace Ethel Primrose
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    CARTWRIGHT, Walter
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    SIMCOCK, Ellen (Nellie)
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Video footage of our "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" event on #MentalHealthAwareness day, 10th Oct '23. We planted 1500+ ceramic flowers, painted by locals & school children. We had to hold it on ...the neighbouring farmland, as the cemetery is in private hands.

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We need a passionate historian to help save the graves of these mental health patients. From all walks of life, these patients were laid to rest in a patch abandoned by the health service & sold ...to a developer.

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A PLEA for HELP!
Please sign our petition to help us protect this cemetery from development by returning it to public hands.


Please include your city/postcode.
No obligation to donate, just
...please share.
#MentalHealthAwareness

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