February 26, 2024 - Friends of Horton Cemetery

RYAN, Mary

Linda Miles-CartwrightFebruary 26, 2024February 26, 2024

b.1875-d.1911 Destitution, disorder and despair. Discovering Mary’s story has been difficult to piece together and the key to her identity was through one of her sisters a “Mrs Smedley” whose...

Horton Asylum

PUTMAN, William John

Linda MartinFebruary 26, 2024March 11, 2024

b.1861-d.1909 William’s parents William John was the first child of Alfred and Elizabeth Putman. Alfred was born in the City of London on 3 Sept 1842 and baptised at the...

Horton Asylum

LAUGHTON, Ethel

Charlotte PayneFebruary 26, 2024February 26, 2024

b.1880-d.1911 Early life in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Ethel’s story starts in Wisbech: a market town in Cambridgeshire with an inland port, sitting on the river Nene. She was born here in...

Horton Asylum

CLARKE, George

Alison CookFebruary 26, 2024March 10, 2024

b.c1832-d.1913 George Clarke was born c1832. Admission to Hoxton House Asylum On 2 July 1901, George was admitted to Hoxton House Asylum in Shoreditch. He was discharged the following year...

Long Grove Asylum

BOX, Archibald

Linda Miles-CartwrightFebruary 26, 2024February 26, 2024

b.1882-d.1911 The Youngest child Archibald Box was a young 24-year-old man when he was admitted to Hackney Workhouse. Scared and confused he would live out the rest of his days...