Jane Allen, Author at Friends of Horton Cemetery

HIRONS, Matilda Lucy

Jane AllenJune 29, 2022May 10, 2023

b.1861-d.1909 Matilda's parents In 1858, Henry Franklin Hiron, an engineer, married Matilda Fell in Stepney. Matilda was the daughter of another engineer and plumber, Richard Fell, who also happened to...

Female Burials Manor Asylum

CROTTY, Susan

Jane AllenOctober 28, 2021October 25, 2022

b.1869 - d.1909 Early years Susan Elizabeth Smith was born in the autumn of 1869, the daughter of George Smith, a cab driver, and his wife Susan. On the 1871...

Asylum Female Burials Manor Asylum

HOLLIDGE, Martha

Jane AllenFebruary 25, 2021May 18, 2023

b. 1848 - d. 1909 1840s Martha Sarah Agatha Waters was baptised at St Mary’s Church, Ewell on the 26th March 1848. She was the daughter of Thomas Waters, a...

Asylum Long Grove Asylum Males

MUNDY, George

Jane AllenFebruary 6, 2021October 25, 2022

b.1909 - d.1909 Although this story is named for baby George MUNDY who lived for 11 days after being born in Long Grove Hospital and subsequently was buried in Horton...