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Day: 29 October 2023

SKERMER (also Skinner/Skirner), Charles
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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...
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PHILLIPS, William
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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...
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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...
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ANDERSON, Elizabeth Leslie
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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...
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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
22 Nov 2023

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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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
17 Nov 2023

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.

@Lucy_Worsley @professorgreen @sixteenthCgirl

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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
14 Nov 2023

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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