Linda Martin, Author at Friends of Horton Cemetery

PAULSON, George Grant

Linda MartinOctober 12, 2022October 12, 2022

b.1847-d.1909 George’s family George was born into a family of Master Tailors, which included his father Charles, uncle William and grandfather Langley Paulson of Baumber, Lincolnshire. His birth was registered...

CAMPBELL, Emily Elizabeth

Linda MartinApril 7, 2022October 17, 2022

The Domestic Servant

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HODD, Edgar Horace

Linda MartinFebruary 15, 2022February 18, 2022

b.1869-d.1909 Edgar’s early life with his parents and siblings – 1860s Edgar Horace Hodd was born in 3rd Quarter, 1869 in Lambeth, Surrey. He was the 4th of five children...

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Harlock, Louisa

Linda MartinFebruary 15, 2022February 15, 2022

b.1859c-d.1909c Sadly Louisa was a foundling, born circa 1859 -1860, most likely in the London area.Foundlings on admission to the hospital were baptised, renamed and given an admission number. The...

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MOUSLEY, Edward Lawford Girling

Linda MartinOctober 29, 2021November 9, 2021

b.1870 - d.1909 Early Life Edward was born on 8th July 1870 in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey, sometimes recorded as Cranley, registered under Hambledon near Godalming. He was the...

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JONES, Archibald

Linda MartinJune 15, 2021September 17, 2021

b.1853 - d.1909 Early life Archibald was born in 1853 in Rotherhithe to Jenkin Jones, born 1819 of Cardiganshire, Wales, and Mary Watt, born 1818, Scotland. His parents registered him...

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BELL, Herbert John

Linda MartinMarch 9, 2021October 27, 2022

b.1855 - d.1909 Herbert John BELL was buried in Horton Cemetery on 18th June 1909. According to the Lunacy Patients Admission Register he had been admitted to Horton Asylum on...

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GEORGE, Frederica

Linda MartinFebruary 25, 2021October 8, 2021

b. 1862 - d. 1909 1860s Known as Frederica. Frederica was the first child of five found born to Frederick William Runyard George (b. 1816 the son of Joseph George...

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CASSIE, George William

Linda MartinFebruary 25, 2021October 26, 2022

b. 1856 - d. 1909 1850s George born in 2Q 1856 Kensington, was the second child of Christopher Cassie (b. 1822) and Harriett Bird (b. 1816). No Baptism found. His...

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D’ARENBERG, Arthur William

Linda MartinJanuary 25, 2021October 25, 2022

b.1857 - d.1909 Arthur’s story starts with his Grandfather, Johann Georg Abeltshauser, a Classical Composer in Germany. Found on a classical music website, it states that a piece of music,...