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BUSH, Charles James

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Asylum Horton Asylum

BUSH, Charles James

Hazel BallanMay 12, 2026May 14, 2026

Victorian children living in poverty

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12 May

Horton Cemetery - the 500th Life Story Published
A Discarded Headstone - Someone Cared Enough to Remember
A headstone rescued from a skip more than 40 years ago led researchers to uncover the story ...of a young woman — and reconnect her memory with living family. Read on...

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1 Feb

James Bates lies in grave 222b.
James was admitted to Horton Asylum in 1911.
No known relatives or friends and he said he had been suicidal.
On that same morning, he had tried to jump from the ...window, but other inmates had stopped him.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/bates-james/

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24 Jan

Infant Baby Hellicar. One of the first stories written about those buried in the cemetery. Read the story here http://www.hortoncemetery.org/hellicar-male/

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24 Jan

On 6th July 1983, Kirkwoods sent a list of the tombstones and memorials that had been removed from the cemetery to the Registrar General of Miscellaneous Records in St Catherine House.

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