March 22, 2025 - Friends of Horton Cemetery

HODGSON, Fanny (née Kemp)

Hazel BallanMarch 22, 2025

b.1848-d.1923 Introduction Back in 2008 I was shown the photograph above of some of the remaining headstones in the Horton Estate Cemetery that had been photographed on 28 February 1971...

CLOUD, James

Elizabeth AumeerMarch 22, 2025May 9, 2025

b.1882-d.1914 James Cloud was born on 1 June 1882 in Lambeth, then part of Surrey. His parents were William Cloud and Mary Ann (née Newman). William and Mary had at...

Horton Asylum

BURNS, John

Elizabeth AumeerMarch 22, 2025

b. c1881-d.1914 Introduction There must be many patients buried in the Horton Estate Cemetery who died alone, without family or friends. Not only was there the stigma of mental illness,...

Long Grove Asylum

BROOKER, Emily Alice

Jenni LlewellynMarch 22, 2025March 22, 2025

b.1883-d.1918 Emily’s birth Emily Alice was born on 16th September 1883. Her mother was Alice Brooker, a Factory Hand. No father’s name has been found. Alice’s mother, (and Emily’s grandmother)...