March 2024 - Friends of Horton Cemetery

Asylum Horton Asylum

HODLEY, Jane

Linda MartinMarch 19, 2024March 19, 2024

b.1861 – d.1909 Jane Hodley died in Horton Asylum on 25 April 1909 and was buried in Horton Cemetery on 30 April. Who was Jane? The Lunacy Register recorded Jane...

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POPPLEWELL, James

Rosie SpenceMarch 10, 2024March 11, 2024

b.1867 – d.1914 Introduction This story is about my 2x Great Grandfather and has been made up from family memories and notes as well as records found in various archives. ...

Female Burials Manor Asylum

HEATH, Lizzie

Sally NestorMarch 10, 2024April 22, 2024

b.1848 - d.1907 Death Lizzie Heath died, aged 59 at the Manor Asylum, Horton on 4th September 1907 at 10.20 am and was buried at the cemetery in grave 7b....

Horton Asylum Males

BREMMICOMBE, Henry

Diane GardnerMarch 9, 2024March 11, 2024

b.1856-d.1910 Henry Bremmicombe’s birth was registered in the Jan-Feb-Mar quarter of 1856 and his baptism record gives his date of birth as 17th January. He was baptised along with his...

Female Burials Horton Asylum

BOLD, Maria

Isabel KnightMarch 9, 2024March 11, 2024

b.1862-d.1908 EARLY YEARS I have been unable to categorically determine where Maria was born, or who her parents were. The burial record states that she was born in Lower Clapton,...