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WATSON, Louisa Susanna
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Asylum Ewell Epileptic Colony Horton Asylum Long Grove Asylum Manor Asylum

WATSON, Louisa Susanna

Shaun JonesJune 23, 2026June 23, 2026
b.1846-1920 In the early hours of the morning on 6th October 1900, Louisa Susanna Watson was found wandering in Great Quebec Street, Marylebone, by PC Edwin Lapworth who took her...
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RICHARDSON, Robert
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RICHARDSON, Robert

Hazel BallanJune 20, 2026June 20, 2026
b.1839-d.1902 Robert’s parents, Robert Richardson (1800-1875) and Ann Stevenson (1815-1885), had two daughters before they wed, Eliza in 1830 and Harriett in 1832. This would indicate that, unless Ann’s birth...
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MOORE, George
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Asylum Ewell Epileptic Colony

MOORE, George

Lesley LeeJune 20, 2026July 12, 2026
b.1881-d.1916 George Moore was born in the Sept Quarter of 1881, the sixth of eight children born to John Isaac Moore and his wife Eliza Ingleton. Both John and Eliza...
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ONYON/ONION, Robert,
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ONYON/ONION, Robert,

Hazel BallanJune 20, 2026June 20, 2026
b.1845-1902 Robert’s young parents had married on 22nd July 1830 in St Andrew the Great, a Church of England parish church in the centre of Cambridge. Robert’s father John Onion...
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Lines, Thomas
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Asylum Long Grove Asylum

Lines, Thomas

Roger MillerJune 1, 2026June 1, 2026
b.1851 - d.1908 Thomas Lines, a plasterer died in Long Grove having lost contact with his family Thomas Lines died on 15th December 1908 at Long Grove Asylum. His death...
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@horton_cemetery ·
9 Aug

After 17 years in Manor Asylum, Epsom, Mary Ann Hall was transferred to Ewell Epileptic Colony when the asylum was requisitioned as a war hospital in 1916.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/hall-mary-ann/
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9 Aug

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7 Aug

James Beston spent most of his life in workhouses, an orphanage and then Horton Asylum.

He died of TB in 1903, aged just 23 years.

Poverty - from which there was no escape - shaped his life.

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@horton_cemetery ·
6 Aug

Horton Cemetery - the 500th Life Story Published

A Discarded Headstone
Someone Cared Enough to Remember

Marjorie Ethel Young (1921-1948) buried in the cemetery.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/young-marjorie-ethel/

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