Volunteers
Our volunteers all have two very important things in common. They answered a call for help to save a cemetery from being developed AND they are committed to giving their energy, their passion, their precious time and even money to research and write the stories that you see here on our website. They are doing this voluntarily to help protect Horton Cemetery from development in perpetuity. We have no full-time professional researchers; quite the opposite we are all amateurs. Learn more about our team here.
The Forgotten
The STORIES
The First Story- Infant Child Hellicar
In April 2020, during the first lockdown, one of our research team started to look into the patients whose...
The Burials
Hospital and Burial Records
The details of the people buried in Horton Cemetery are summarised in the cemetery burials register in the Epsom &...
The Records
Whilst the below lists which records exist today, you should be aware that some patients passed through more than one asylum. I.e. they may have died...
Understanding the Lunacy Register
Admission / Discharge Book
Header information for Lunacy Patients Admission Register
Ancestry Link straight to searching the Lunacy Admission...
The Authors
The volunteer authors of the Friends of Horton Cemetery charity have so far researched, written and published almost 500 stories.
Each story tells...