October 2023 - Friends of Horton Cemetery

Long Grove Asylum Males

SKERMER (also Skinner/Skirner), Charles

Linda Miles-CartwrightOctober 29, 2023October 30, 2023

b.1885-d.1911 The Grandson of a high-flying career man who fell from grace. Charles proved to be difficult to trace as the Find a Grave website had Charles’s surname noted as...

Horton Asylum Males

PHILLIPS, William

Linda MartinOctober 29, 2023October 30, 2023

b.1864-d.1909 Author’s note William Phillips was not an easy name to research, Phillips being quite a common surname in the UK. I did find a good candidate only to discover...

Long Grove Asylum

AMES, Agnes

Lesley LeeOctober 29, 2023October 29, 2023

b.1857–d.1914 Birth and marriage in Ireland Agnes was born Agnes Regnell (Wregnell) in Naas, Co Kildare, Ireland in about 1857. No Irish census information remains following a fire which destroyed...

Female Burials Long Grove Asylum

ANDERSON, Elizabeth Leslie

Jenni LlewellynOctober 29, 2023October 30, 2023

b.1891-d.1918 Elizabeth was born on the 2nd March 1891 in the St Pancras registration district to John Leighton Anderson and Mary Ann nee Wood, known as Lilly. John had been...