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BROOKER, Emily Alice
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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)...
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McCOUBREY, Elizabeth
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McCOUBREY, Elizabeth

Jenni LlewellynMarch 21, 2025March 21, 2025
b.1886-d.1918 Elizabeth's parents and siblings Elizabeth was born on 17th March 1886 at 16 New Fenwick Street, Woolwich. Her father James, who had been born about 1857 in Northern Ireland,...
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REEVES, Caroline
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REEVES, Caroline

Jenni LlewellynSeptember 9, 2024September 9, 2024
b.1845-d.1918 Caroline’s parents Caroline was born on 5th February 1845 at 11 Moor Street, Marylebone to John EADE junior, a Waiter and Charlotte née BUNNEY his wife. John and Charlotte...
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CURWOOD, Rose Hester 
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CURWOOD, Rose Hester 

Jenni LlewellynApril 7, 2024April 7, 2024
b.1881-d.1917 Rose’s parents Rose Hester Curwood was born 28th February 1881 to Thomas Curwood (1839 -1914) a House  Painter and his wife Harriett, née Beckett, (1839 - 1909). They had...
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HARMSWORTH, Louisa
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HARMSWORTH, Louisa

Jenni LlewellynNovember 5, 2023November 5, 2023
1892-1918 Louisa Emily Harmsworth was born on the 10th April 1892, the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Harmsworth, a general servant and a single woman. Louisa was baptised at Tooting Graveney...
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ANDERSON, Elizabeth Leslie
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ANDERSON, Elizabeth Leslie

Jenni LlewellynOctober 29, 2023October 30, 2023
b.1891-d.1918 Elizabeth was born on the 2nd March 1891 in the St Pancras registration district to John Leighton  Anderson and Mary Ann nee Wood, known as Lilly.   John had been...
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EATON, Samuel
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EATON, Samuel

Jenni LlewellynSeptember 17, 2023October 3, 2023

A gas fitter born in St Martin in the Fields, London

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PARKER, Walter Gilbert
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PARKER, Walter Gilbert

Jenni LlewellynMay 3, 2023May 3, 2023
b.1902-d.1918 Walter’s mother and grand-parents Walter Gilbert Parker was born 25th May 1902, at 53 Buller Road, Fulham, the son of Ariel Elizabeth Parker. There is a blank in the...
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ENDERSON, Gertrude
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ENDERSON, Gertrude

Jenni LlewellynMay 3, 2023May 9, 2023
b.1863-d.1918 Uncertain origins This lady’s birth is uncertain. Searching the registrations of birth I was unable to find a Gertrude Enderson born within two years either side of 1863 who...
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GILCHRIST, Jane 
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GILCHRIST, Jane 

Jenni LlewellynMay 2, 2023May 9, 2023
b.1893-d.1918  Jane’s parents and siblings Jane Gilchrist was born in the Holborn registration district to Charles Edward Gilchrist 1854  1895 and his wife Mary née Hawkins (1855 - 1896). They...
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VENNELL, Martha Ellen
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VENNELL, Martha Ellen

Jenni LlewellynApril 16, 2023April 17, 2023

We know little about Martha except that she was epileptic.

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CURWOOD, Thomas Edward
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CURWOOD, Thomas Edward

Jenni LlewellynSeptember 21, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1870-d.1908 Thomas’s parents Thomas Edward Curwood was born in the Kensington registration district in the December quarter of 1870 to Thomas Curwood and his wife Harriet née Beckett. Thomas senior...
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ATTWOOD, Leslie Charles
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ATTWOOD, Leslie Charles

Jenni LlewellynJune 2, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1899-d1917 Leslie's family Leslie Charles Attwood was born in the June quarter of 1899, the third child and second son of Charles Attwood and Alice Amelia née Appleby. Charles, born...
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JONES, Grace Ethel Primrose
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JONES, Grace Ethel Primrose

Jenni LlewellynMay 22, 2022September 9, 2023
b.1899-d.1918 Grace Ethel Primrose Jones was born on 19th April 1899. She was the eldest child of Frederick Albert Jones (1874 - 1927), a stationer's packer, and Ada Rebecca née Byford...
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SOAR, Mary Ann
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SOAR, Mary Ann

Jenni LlewellynApril 30, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1861-d.1907 Mary Ann Soar was born in the 1st quarter of 1861 to Josiah Paul Soar and his wife Maria (née Torond). Josiah, born in Deptford, Kent, in 1820 was...
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LEWIS, Francis
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LEWIS, Francis

Jenni LlewellynApril 7, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1866-1908 Francis was born in the March quarter of 1866, in St. George in the East registration district, London. His parents were Jacob Lewis (Lowies/Lowres?) born about 1830 and Anita...
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GERHARD, Marie
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GERHARD, Marie

Jenni LlewellynApril 7, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1860-d.1918 According to the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses Marie was born in France. I have not been able to confirm this. On each of these censuses Marie is described...
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SPURRETT, Thomas Richard
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SPURRETT, Thomas Richard

Jenni LlewellynApril 3, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1851-d.1908 Thomas Richard Spurret was born in the December quarter of 1851 to Richard (1829 - 1893) and Emma CRIPPS (1833-1887). They had married in 1851 at Witney, Oxfordshire. Thomas...
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SHORTLAND, Edward James
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SHORTLAND, Edward James

Jenni LlewellynMarch 6, 2022March 8, 2023
b.1853-d.1908 Edward was born on 15th March 1853 in Whitechapel and baptised on 10th April at St Botolph Without, in Aldgate. His parents were Edward Shortland and Maria née Jones....
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JAMES, Susan
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JAMES, Susan

Jenni LlewellynMarch 6, 2022March 8, 2023
b. 1865-d.1908 Born in the June quarter of 1865, in the Greenwich registration district, to John Street and his wife Margaret née Bower. They had married in June 1846 in...
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SYMES, David
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SYMES, David

Jenni LlewellynFebruary 18, 2022
b.1865-d.1908 There is a birth for David B. Symes in the September quarter in 1866, in Greenwich, with a mother who had the surname of Lawrence. I have not found...
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WHITROD, Elizabeth
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WHITROD, Elizabeth

Jenni LlewellynFebruary 18, 2022October 17, 2022

Coping with 6 family deaths within 4 months

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WEEKES, Esther
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WEEKES, Esther

Jenni LlewellynFebruary 15, 2022October 17, 2022

A mother of 10

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SPURRET, Walter George Blofeld
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Long Grove Asylum Males

SPURRET, Walter George Blofeld

Jenni LlewellynFebruary 15, 2022October 28, 2022
b.1900 -d.1934 Walter George Blofeld Spurrett was born on 17th February 1900, the son of Thomas Richard Spurrett (1851 - 1908) and Clara Debank (1872 - 1910). He was baptised on...
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GILLER, Frederick William
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GILLER, Frederick William

Jenni LlewellynFebruary 15, 2022October 26, 2022
b.1861-d.1908 Frederick was born in 1861 in the Camberwell registration district to Frederick Gustavus Giller (1834 - 1881), a merchant’s clerk and Elizabeth ‘Minnie’, née Peacock (1837 - 1870). They...
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PAXTON, William Spencer
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PAXTON, William Spencer

Jenni LlewellynFebruary 14, 2022April 3, 2022
b.1859-d.1908 William was born in 1859 to Thomas Paxton (1826-1867) and his wife, Emma née Cotton (1827-1880). They married in 1848 at Woburn. Thomas was a land agent/ostler, son of...
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WATKINS, Caroline
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WATKINS, Caroline

Jenni LlewellynFebruary 14, 2022October 26, 2022
b.1864-d.1907 Caroline was born in the September quarter of 1864, in the St Pancras registration district, London, to George Daniel Watkins, born in 1837 and Lucy Elizabeth Watkins, born in...
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BRANSGROVE, Louisa
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BRANSGROVE, Louisa

Jenni LlewellynOctober 31, 2021November 9, 2021
Louisa was born in the Fulham registration district during the December quarter of 1889. The daughter of James Bransgrove and Ellen his wife nee Plumridge. They had married on 6th...
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HANCOCK, John Charles
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Female Burials Long Grove Asylum

HANCOCK, John Charles

Jenni LlewellynSeptember 17, 2021October 8, 2021
b.1869-d.1908 Introduction Initially I searched for John (Charles) Hancock born circa 1869. There were several John’s – far too many to research and only a couple of John Charles who...
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DUNCAN, Maud

Jenni LlewellynJuly 9, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1862-d.1908 1860s Maud was born Mary Bridget in 1862 in the Westminster registration district to Thomas GANLEY, 1826-1877, and Mary, née MEANY, 1828-1896 - the seventh of ten children. Both...
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JERVIS, Arthur
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Long Grove Asylum Males

JERVIS, Arthur

Jenni LlewellynJuly 9, 2021October 4, 2021
b.1863-d.1908 Early life Arthur was born in the December Quarter of 1863 in the Lambeth registration district. His parents Henry William Bury Jervis (1824-1876) and Caroline, née Burnett (1827-1913), had...
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KELLY, Henry
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Long Grove Asylum Males

KELLY, Henry

Jenni LlewellynJuly 9, 2021October 8, 2021
b.1867-d.1908 Early life Born in 1867 in the December Quarter in Camberwell registration district. He was baptised at St Mary, Newington on February 9th, 1869, along with siblings George William,...
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DAVIS, Charles Augustus
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DAVIS, Charles Augustus

Jenni LlewellynJuly 9, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1863-d.1908 1850s-1860s Charles was born on 29 January 1863 at 27 Hemsworth Street, Shoreditch, Hoxton Old Town registration district to Alfred Davis, a Master Cabinet Maker, and Jane, née Hunt....
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KELLAND, Henry Philip Chambers
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KELLAND, Henry Philip Chambers

Jenni LlewellynJanuary 20, 2021September 17, 2021
Story Version number = 2Friends of Horton Cemetery Researcher – Jennifer Llewellyn Born: 1st April 1867 at 03.45. 20 Clarendon Crescent, Edinburgh. His parents were Professor Philip Kelland 1809 -...
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17 Nov

Hendrik B Koekkoek - youngest son of Dutch painter Hermanus Koekkoek (1815-1882).

His grandfather was Dutch painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek.

Hendrik’s paintings can be found in museums,
...including the museum Paul Tetar van Elven in Delft, Holland.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/koekkoek-hendrick-b/

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17 Nov

Sylvester first appears in the workhouse in 1866. He was found wandering, aged 5 years and is taken to the workhouse. He is discharged the same day to his mother. There starts his institutional life.... Sylvester spent his whole life in institutions.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/fury-sylvester/

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14 Nov

Félix Garcia was a famed Spanish dancer, and art subject of Picasso. He was confined at the Long Grove asylum, in Epsom, after he started acting peculiar, soon after being possibly deceived by The ...Ballet Russes director, Sergei Diaghilev.
http://www.hortoncemetery.org/garcia-felix/

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Tottie Fay - The Worst and Wickedest woman in London! I challenge you, upon reading her story, not to feel admiration for her courage, in the overwhelming face of adversity, and to feel compassion... in droves for her life-story and eventual fate.

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