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COLE, Jane Ann
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Long Grove Asylum

COLE, Jane Ann

Linda Miles-CartwrightJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1878-d.1911 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/201247488/family?cfpid=362626940999&invitetoken=ECvF3Jfxn3lU_5wA5mYLccWXtM7LXR9AwSOFXQb65_A%3D Introduction Jane was a long way from home when she died but details from her death certificate helped to identify her and where she came from. Jane was...
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WALKER, Frank
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WALKER, Frank

Linda Miles-CartwrightJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1879-d.1911 Vertical Tree View - Ancestry A mysterious young man from Argyle Street Frank Walker was only 32 years old when he died, and he had spent the last 9...
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HOLDEN, Henry William

Lesley LeeJanuary 23, 2025September 6, 2025
b.1886-d.1914 Vertical Tree View - Ancestry Henry’s family Henry  was the third child of five born to George Holden and his wife, Florence Emily Traies.  His siblings were George Edward...
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DASSITER, Emma
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DASSITER, Emma

Alison CookJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1834-d.1917 Introduction  Emma Dassiter died at Long Grove Asylum on 28 January 1917 aged 83 having been admitted to Long Grove Asylum on 7 August 1907.  She is buried in...
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BRADY, James Ernest Quinland
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BRADY, James Ernest Quinland

Stephen MundayJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1872-d.1921 Although our subject was baptised and registered as Ernest James Quinland Brady, his name appears as James Ernest Brady in Lunacy Patients Admission Registers.  Ernest’s parents Ernest was the...
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ANDREWS, Mabel
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ANDREWS, Mabel

Linda Miles-CartwrightJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1879-d.1911 Introduction Unfortunately, none of the definite records found for Mabel referred to her family. Not even her death certificate gave me any mention of a family. The 1911 census...
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17 Nov

Hendrik B Koekkoek - youngest son of Dutch painter Hermanus Koekkoek (1815-1882).

His grandfather was Dutch painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek.

Hendrik’s paintings can be found in museums,
...including the museum Paul Tetar van Elven in Delft, Holland.
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Sylvester first appears in the workhouse in 1866. He was found wandering, aged 5 years and is taken to the workhouse. He is discharged the same day to his mother. There starts his institutional life.... Sylvester spent his whole life in institutions.
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14 Nov

Félix Garcia was a famed Spanish dancer, and art subject of Picasso. He was confined at the Long Grove asylum, in Epsom, after he started acting peculiar, soon after being possibly deceived by The ...Ballet Russes director, Sergei Diaghilev.
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Tottie Fay - The Worst and Wickedest woman in London! I challenge you, upon reading her story, not to feel admiration for her courage, in the overwhelming face of adversity, and to feel compassion... in droves for her life-story and eventual fate.

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