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MASSEY, Harriet
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MASSEY, Harriet

Sally NestorApril 7, 2024April 22, 2024
b.1832-d.1907 Death I have had to start at the end of Harriet Massey's life and try to work backwards in order to tell her story.  The Horton Cemetery Records provided...
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HEATH, Lizzie
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HEATH, Lizzie

Sally NestorMarch 10, 2024April 22, 2024
b.1848 - d.1907 Death Lizzie Heath died, aged 59 at the Manor Asylum, Horton on 4th September 1907 at 10.20 am and was buried at the cemetery in grave 7b....
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CORKE, Henrietta
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CORKE, Henrietta

Sally NestorApril 16, 2023April 17, 2023

The author says, “This has been such an interesting case to try to unravel and kept a couple of us up to the early hours trying to make sense of it!” A fabulous piece of research leaving questions to unravel.

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BONNER, Mary Elizabeth
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BONNER, Mary Elizabeth

Sally NestorMarch 7, 2023March 8, 2023
b.1867-d.1907 Death I have had to start at the end of Mary Elizabeth Bonner's life and try to work backwards in order to tell Mary’s story.  The Horton Cemetery Records...
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COLSON, Mary Ann
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COLSON, Mary Ann

Sally NestorMarch 20, 2022May 21, 2023

The Lambeth Needlewoman

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DUNKINSON, Matilda
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DUNKINSON, Matilda

Sally NestorDecember 16, 2021April 26, 2023
b.1878 - d.1907 Dunkinson has been spelt in a variety of ways on the sources discovered, however I believe they are transcription errors and that the documents found all refer...
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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
1 Jun

Story 506: Thomas LINES. Wife Clara found her child George dead at nursery. Some time later, she jumped from Hammersmith Bridge into the Thames. A policeman happened to be close, jumped in after her ...and managed to get her to shore. http://www.hortoncemetery.org/lines-thomas/

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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
30 May

Fanny Emma Hervey - Seduced by a clergyman in confirmation classes. An extraordinary story of a girl -a life is embroiled in scandal, court proceedings and many spells in asylums.
...http://www.hortoncemetery.org/hervey-fanny-emma/

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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
15 May

Horton Story no. 503: Charles John McNab. His son, Colin, wrote, "I never knew my father. As I understand it he was in the Horse Artillery and was killed at Dunkirk."
In fact Charles actually died
...in Long Grove Asylum, Epsom. Read his biography here: http://www.hortoncemetery.org/mcnab-charles-john/

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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
12 May

Horton Cemetery - the 500th Life Story Published
A Discarded Headstone - Someone Cared Enough to Remember
A headstone rescued from a skip more than 40 years ago led researchers to uncover the story
...of a young woman — and reconnect her memory with living family. Read on...

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