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DAWES, Jane Eliza
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Horton Asylum

DAWES, Jane Eliza

Marion TurnerMay 5, 2024March 21, 2025
b.1856-d.1914 Jane Eliza Dawes was 58 years old when she died in Horton on 12th September 1914. This would give a birth year of c1856. The Findagrave website gives her...
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COLEMAN, Mark
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Horton Asylum

COLEMAN, Mark

Marion TurnerMay 5, 2024May 28, 2024
b.1846-d.1923 Introduction When Mark went into Horton Hospital in early 1902 he was 56 years old and described as melancholic. His notes over the years show a fairly constant pattern...
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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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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.
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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.
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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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