Our Volunteers and the Stories they write.
The following stories have been written by our volunteer researchers who are all amateurs, united by a deep-rooted passion to preserve the memory of those buried in Horton Cemetery.
Once written, the researchers often return to stories at a later date when further information is unearthed. Occasionally, the researchers find case notes and photographs in the local archives and these details are woven into the stories. Sometimes, family members have come forward to add detail to the stories.
If you believe that any of the following might be someone significant in your family history, please do not hesitate to contact us.
In total, there are about 9000 stories to be written.
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- ABBOTT, Mary Winchester
- ABER, James William
- ADAMS, Sarah
- AITKEN, William
- ALAIS, Sarah Elizabeth
- ALDER, Sarah
- ALDRIDGE, Frederick William
- ALLEN, Frederick (George Frederick Allen)
- ALLEN, Mary Ann
- ALLIBON, Sarah Emma
- AMES, Agnes
- ANDERSON, Elizabeth Leslie
- ANDREWS, Kate
- ANDREWS, Mabel
- APPLETON, Caroline Sophia
- ASHWELL, Amy
- ATKINSON, Alfred Brereton
- ATTWOOD, Leslie Charles
- AUDAIN, Cyril Bannatyne
- AUSTIN, Percy John
- AVES, Thomas
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- BAHRUTH, Arnold
- BAILEY, Kate
- BAKER, Cassidy (née Trull)
- BAKER, Richard Joseph
- BANNELL, Walter
- BANNISTER, Arthur
- BARFORD, Maria Celia
- BARNET, Enid
- BARNSLEY, Rose Ellen
- BARRETT, Edward Dillon
- Bartlett, Alfred
- BATES, Beatrice Miriam
- BATTY, Jane
- BAUERMEISTER, Johanna Amanda Louise
- BEADON, Walter
- BECKETT, Annie
- BECKETT, Ebenezer John
- BEDFORD, Cassie (Chrissie)
- BEECH, Thomas
- BELCHER, Peter
- BELLAMY, Louisa
- BELL, Herbert John
- BELL, James Kennedy
- BENTLEY or MACHON, Minnie
- BERRY, Henry
- BIGFORD, Emma
- BISHOP, Charles Joseph
- BLACKMORE, Arthur John
- BLACKWELL, Charles
- BLAZDELL, Mary Jane
- BLEWITT, Emily Florence
- BLOMQUIST, Caroline
- BOARD, Elizabeth
- BOLD, Maria
- BOLTON, Thomas
- BONNER, Mary Elizabeth
- BOULTON, Alfred William
- BOUTTELL, Catherine
- BOWDERY, Agnes Bessie
- BOX, Archibald
- BRADY, James Ernest Quinland
- BRANSCOMBE, Frederick Neyle
- BRANSGROVE, Louisa
- BREMMICOMBE, Henry
- BRICKER, Samuel Henry
- BROGAN, Mary
- BROOKER, Emily Alice
- BROOK, Herbert
- BROWN, Alfred Albert
- BRYANT, Percy Henry
- BUCKERIDGE, Lily Ada
- BUNCE, Maurice
- BURFITT, Matilda Georgina
- BURNISTON (née Addison) Emma Jane
- BURNS, John
- BURTON, Susan
- BYFORD, Walter
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- CALFE, William
- CAMPBELL, Emily Elizabeth
- CAMPLISSON, George
- CAPLING, John
- CARPENTER, George
- CARROLL, Luke
- CARR, Arthur
- CARTER, George James (James George)
- CARTWRIGHT, Walter
- CASSAN, John Sheffield
- CASSIE, George William
- CATHERWOOD, William Pearson
- CERVI, Theresa
- CHANDLER, Emma May
- CHAPMAN, Harriett
- CHEESMAN, Annie
- CHESTERMAN, Henry
- CLARKE, George
- CLARKE, William Robert
- CLAYTON, Ada
- CLOUD, James
- COATHUPE, Henry Waldegrave Lacey
- COLEMAN, Mark
- COLE, Jane Ann
- COLLIER, Isaac James
- COLLINS, John
- COLSON, Mary Ann
- COLTMAN, Martha
- COMPTON, Emma
- COOK, Dorothy Fanny
- COOMBES, Elizabeth
- COOPER, Frederick
- COOPER, William Henry
- COPELAND, Mary Ann (née Myring)
- COPPING, Ada
- CORBETT, John Francis
- CORKE, Henrietta
- COTTRELL, Edward
- COURTENAY, John MacArthur
- CRACKNELL, Alfred William
- CRESSWELL, Frank Ernest
- CROTTY, Susan
- CURSON, Charles Robert
- CURWOOD, Rose Hester
- CURWOOD, Thomas Edward
- CUSHNIE, George Barnes
- CUTHBERT, Alfred
- CUTHBERT, Thomasine
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- DACOMBE, Amy
- DASSITER, Emma
- DAVIS, Charles Augustus
- DAVIS, Evan James
- DAWES, Jane Eliza
- DEAN, George
- DEVERILL, Minnie
- DE JONG, John
- DICK, Andrea Elder
- DODD, George
- DOLDING, Annie
- DONEGAN, Lottie Enid
- DOODY, Thomas
- DORLEY, Harriet
- DOW, Charles
- DRINKWATER, John
- DUNCAN, Maud
- DUNCOMBE, Caroline
- DUNKINSON, Matilda
- D’ARENBERG, Arthur William
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- FAIRBRASS, Amy (Amey)
- FAY, Tottie
- FELL, Sachinais Alicia
- FLAXMAN, Elizabeth
- FLETCHER, George
- FLYNN, James David
- FOLWELL, Dora
- FORMAN, Thomas
- FOX, John
- FRANCIS, Amelia
- FRASER, Arthur Alfred
- FRESTON, Catherine Louisa
- FRIZELL, Frederick Robert
- FRYER, Edward
- FULLER, John Alfred
- FURY, Sylvester
- FUZZENS, William
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- GALLIANO, James Price
- GARCÍA, Félix
- GARDNER, Thomas George
- GARLAND, Percy Ernest
- GEORGE, Frederica
- GERHARD, Marie
- GILBERT, George Frederick
- GILCHRIST, Jane
- GILHAM (or GILLING), Stephen
- GILLAM (GILLAN), Ellen
- GILLER, Frederick William
- GILL, Jane
- GLENISTER, Arthur
- GODBOLD, Florence Kezia May
- GODFREY, Susannah
- GOLDER, Edward
- GOMMERING, Elizabeth
- GOODING, George
- GOODING, Sarah Ann
- GORSUCH, Joseph
- GOYMER, Hugh
- GREENE, Archibald
- GREGG, Charlotte
- GUILMARTIN, Patrick Thomas
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- HACKETT, Edward
- HALEY, Samuel Thomas
- HALLÉN, Hjalmar
- HALL née Grey, Emma Mary
- HAMILTON, Charles Frederick
- HAMILTON, Sarah Lloyd
- HANCOCK, John Charles
- HARDING, Harriet Emma
- HARDWICK, Dorothy
- HARLEY, Alice
- Harlock, Louisa
- HARMSWORTH, Louisa
- HARPER, James
- HARRIS, Rose Matilda Edith
- HARTLEY, Richard Johnson (Robert)
- HARTNOLL, Thomas
- HAWKINS, Frederick
- HAYCOCK, Hannah
- HEATH, Lizzie
- HEDINGER, Otto John
- HELLICAR, Infant Child
- HENNESSEY, Charles
- HILLIER, Emily
- HIRONS, Matilda Lucy
- HODD, Edgar Horace
- HODGES, Annie Harriet
- HODGSON, Fanny (née Kemp)
- HODLEY, Jane
- HOLDEN, Henry William
- HOLDGATE, Charles
- HOLLIDGE, Martha
- HOLLIMAN, Emma
- HOLTON, Emma
- HONEY, Joseph Thomas
- HOPE, Julia
- HORRIGAN, William
- HORSEY, Joseph Maslen
- HORWOOD, William
- HOWARD, Emma
- HOWARD, Frank
- HOWE, Walter
- HOWKINS, Ann Barrows
- HUNT, John James
- HYATT, Daisy Lilian
- HYATT, George
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- LAIT, Alfred Benjamin
- LAMBERT, Ernest Archibald
- LAMBERT, Fannie Ethel
- LANDROS, Peter
- LARNER, Emily
- LAUGHTON, Ethel
- LEFEVRE, Edmond Frederick
- LEIGH, Jessie
- Lendvai, Peter Erwin
- LEVELL, Nellie Louisa
- LEVERETT, John Henry
- LEWIS, Francis
- LEWIS, James
- LEWIS, William Grosvenor Joseph
- LIDDIARD, William Bromley
- LINSTEAD, Edward Charles
- LUSK, George Alfred
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- MAIDMENT, Edward
- MANNOCK, Walter
- MAPLE, Louisa
- MARHAM, Adeline Miriam
- MASON, Benjamin Albert
- MASSEY, Harriet
- MASTIN, Alfred
- MAUER, Charles
- MAURISCHE, Marie Theresa
- McCLOUD, David Drummond
- McCOUBREY, Elizabeth
- MCDONALD, Ethel
- McGOVARIN, Laura
- MEAD, Daisy
- MEIN, Alexander
- METROSOGLOW, John
- MILTON, Maria
- MINCHER, Samuel
- MOORE, Albert George
- MOORE, Henry
- MORGAN, Alfred
- MORGAN, Jemima
- MORIVAL, Louis
- MORRISH, Mary
- MOSS, Joseph William
- MOSS, Thomas
- MOUSLEY, Edward Lawford Girling
- MUNDAY, Mary Ann
- MUNDY, George
- MUNK, William
- MUNRO (née Saunders), Sarah
- MURRELL, James
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- PAPE, William Edwin
- PARKER, Walter Gilbert
- PARKYNS, Ann
- PASKELL, Kate
- PASTEAU, Maurice
- PAULSON, George Grant
- PAXTON, William Spencer
- PEDLEY, Byron
- PELHAM, George
- PENFOLD, Edward Charles
- PENN, Rose Esther
- PENN, William George Joseph
- PENZA, Peter
- PETERSON, Sophia
- PFAFFENBACH, Augustus
- PHILLIPS, William
- PICK, John
- POPPLEWELL, James
- POSFORD, Emily Caroline
- POULTON, George Henry
- PRESTRIDGE, Frederick
- PUTMAN, William John
- PYATT, Sidney
- PYM, Edward
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- SABEY, George David
- SADLER, Thomas
- SAGE, Henry Charles
- SAWKINS, Thomas
- SCAMBLER, Thomas William
- SCHMIDT, Ethel
- SCOTT, Alexander
- SEARS, Albert
- SEARS, Emma
- SHEARMAN, Emma
- SHINE, John James
- SHORTLAND, Edward James
- SHREEVE, Lottie
- SIMCOCK, Ellen (Nellie)
- SIMMONS, William
- SKERMER (also Skinner/Skirner), Charles
- SKILLINGS, Samuel
- SKINNER, Alfred
- SKULL, Mark
- SMITH, Emily Clara
- SOAR, Mary Ann
- SODEN, George
- SOPER, George Edward Worsley
- SPACKMAN, Lily Sophia
- SPRING, Elizabeth
- SPURRETT, Thomas Richard
- SPURRET, Walter George Blofeld
- STACE, Louisa
- STAFFORD, Henry Alfred
- STANDLY, Louisa
- STASZEWICZ, Felicja
- STEBBINGS, Mahala
- STIDDIFORD, Edith
- STREET, John
- SULLIVAN, Agnes
- SWAN, Ernest Paul
- SYKES, Gertrude
- SYMES, David
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- WALKER, Frank
- WALKER, George
- WALLACE/WALLISS, Frederick
- WALL, John William
- WALTER, Mary Elizabeth
- WARD, Caroline
- WATERER, Richard James
- WATKINS, Caroline
- WEEKES, Esther
- WESLEY, James
- WHEELER, Ada Elizabeth
- WHITAKER, Isabella
- WHITE, Emma
- WHITROD, Elizabeth
- WILSON, Eleanor Lydia Kate
- WILSON, Frederick Leon
- WOODCOTE, Mary
- WOOD, Mary Ann
- WRIGHT, Eliza