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SKULL, Mark

Martin KnightApril 9, 2021September 17, 2021
b. 1857 - d.1915 - A Victorian Murder Case Intro For a brief, but intense period, Mark Skull found himself an unwilling player in a classic Victorian murder case and...
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YAXLEY, Alice

Martin KnightMarch 15, 2021October 5, 2021
b.1873 - d.1915 Alice Gray/Grey was born in 1873 in the village of Ashill, near Swaffham in Norfolk. Her mother was Sarah Gray and she was unmarried when she gave...
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FUZZENS, William

Martin KnightMarch 8, 2021September 17, 2021
b.1875 - d.1915 Intro The wider Fuzzens family are well-established in Windsor, particularly, and one member was the first Labour Mayor of the town. There is a Fuzzens Walk in...
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BEADON, Walter

Martin KnightMarch 6, 2021October 24, 2022
b.~1871 - d.1915 The story of Walter Beadon is among the saddest of the many troubled souls who ended their days at Long Grove Hospital and subsequently received a pauper’s...
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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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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.
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