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Friends of Horton Cemetery

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Research

We welcome new Volunteers to join our team. If you are interested please contact us, we would love to hear from you. It not all about writing and researching, there are many ways to help; data, translations, articles, local interest appeals.

There are a number of Polish military personnel who fought with British Forces in WW2 buried in the cemetery. If you are a Polish speaking researcher and/or can help with document translation we would also love to hear from you.

Some of the other things we are looking for, that would help us fill gaps and tell as complete a story of the burials and cemetery as possible are:

  • Provide any Photos/plans of the cemetery from any era (please provide permission/source to use at same time).
  • Do you visit any archives around the country? Help us by adding required records to your list and photographing them. Our local history centre focuses ont he Cluster, but many patients passed through multiple asylums, and due to the ‘disposed of’ Long Grove records, this may be the only way that find out who they were and what they looked like.
  • Do you have any documents about the cemetery, its residents, or staff?
  • Memories of the cemetery, especially from people that worked there as nurses, grave diggers, teachers, farmers, or maintenance.
  • Memories or Photos of people that are buried there.
  • Copies of Birth, Marriage, Death certificates for the burials.

We have all the grave numbers, but nobody has yet been able to come up with a valid layout of the cemetery, showing which grave numbers are where and how graves were laid out either side of the central paths. Although the surviving burial registers record grave numbers, no corresponding plan showing the location of those graves is presently known to survive. Without that plan, the precise location of individual burials within Horton Cemetery cannot generally be identified. What happened to the cemetery’s original grave plan, and whether it still existed when the cemetery was sold into private ownership in 1983, remains an important unanswered question.