Anne Davies, Author at Friends of Horton Cemetery

Asylum Long Grove Asylum

TREVAIL, Gertrude

Anne DaviesFebruary 18, 2022April 3, 2022

b.1845 - d.1910 Childhood Gertrude Augusta Shepherd was born in the June quarter of 1845, in the south Devon village of Colaton Raleigh. Her unmarried mother, Eliza Shepherd, worked as...

Asylum Long Grove Asylum

BROGAN, Mary

Anne DaviesFebruary 14, 2022February 14, 2022

b.1848-d.1910 To research Mary’s story I needed to start with her death certificate. This stated that she was a spinster aged 62, a domestic servant and had lived at 3...

Long Grove Asylum

BOUTTELL, Catherine

Anne DaviesAugust 9, 2021October 27, 2022

b.1849-d.1910 Childhood Catherine was born in the June quarter of 1849 in South Witham, Lincolnshire to Robert Selby (b.1813) and his wife Elizabeth (née Merry b.1820). In the 1851 Census,...

Long Grove Asylum

HARDWICK, Dorothy

Anne DaviesApril 1, 2021September 17, 2021

b.1888 - d.1910 Early Life Dorothy Betty Hardwick was born in Cheltenham on 17 February 1888, the second child of Walter Henry Hardwick and Sarah Mary West. They had married...

Long Grove Asylum

SCHMIDT, Ethel

Anne DaviesMarch 25, 2021October 27, 2022

b. 1887 - d. 1910 On 26 September 1870 Hanrich Frederick Ferdinand Schmidt married Sophia Hutchings at Christ Church, Somers Town, Pancras. Ferdinand, the name he seems to have used,...

Asylum Long Grove Asylum

SEARS, Albert

Anne DaviesFebruary 25, 2021September 17, 2021

b. 1889- d. 1910 1880s Albert William Sears was born on 1 February 1889 in Hoxton, Shoreditch to Alfred Seers (born in Bristol about 1845 according to his 1881 Census...

Asylum Complete Long Grove Asylum

METROSOGLOW, John

Anne DaviesFebruary 5, 2021September 17, 2021

b. 1884 - d. 1910 John is something of a mystery. His first mention in the records is at aged 20, with no family connections. Indeed, he was the only...