November 2023 - Friends of Horton Cemetery

CHEESMAN, Annie

Steve JohnsonNovember 20, 2023November 20, 2023

b. ~1849 - d. 3 October 1911 Died 3rd October 1911 - Buried: 9 October 1911 - Grave 1295b Annie Cheesman was a mother, and grandmother, widowed in her 40s...

Asylum Horton Asylum

DEAN, George

Hazel BallanNovember 19, 2023November 19, 2023

b.1850-d.1902 Like many of our stories, there was little to go on for George Dean when searching in the available online records. So little in fact, that a copy of...

Horton Asylum

CRACKNELL, Alfred William

Alison CookNovember 5, 2023March 10, 2024

“A quiet old dement who…gives no trouble and works contentedly in the vegetable shed….the place cannot get on without him.”

Asylum Long Grove Asylum

HARMSWORTH, Louisa

Jenni LlewellynNovember 5, 2023November 5, 2023

1892-1918 Louisa Emily Harmsworth was born on the 10th April 1892, the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Harmsworth, a general servant and a single woman. Louisa was baptised at Tooting Graveney...