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b.1852-d.1902
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Working at Cane Hill Asylum
John’s first certain appearance is in the 1891 Census when he was enumerated as being an attendant for the insane in the Cane Hill Asylum in Coulsdon, Surrey. Here it was recorded that he had been born c.1853 in “Belgaum, East Indies”.
Working at Buckinghamshire Asylum
At some point over the next ten years John moved from Coulsdon to become an attendant in the Buckinghamshire County Asylum in Stone, Buckinghamshire. Here, in 1901, he was recorded as being single and that he had been born in South Ealing, Middlesex, which contradicts the 1891 record.
From employee to patient
On 9th April 1902 his status had been changed to an inmate who was discharged from the Lambeth Workhouse in the City of London to Horton Asylum in Epsom, Surrey.
This was where he died on 16th April 1902.
His death certificate states that he was a “Musician and Lunatic Attendant of Lambeth Infirmary”. The postmortem showed that his cause of death was “General Paralysis and Heart Disease”.
John’s remains were buried in the Horton Estate Cemetery in grave 8 on 22nd April 1902.
