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About me

I’m Laura and I live in Surrey with my husband, two children, and two cats Victoria and Albie. I became interested in genealogy during lockdown in 2020 when I became a volunteer for HortonCemetery.org

The Friends of Horton Cemetery is a charitable organisation whose main goal is to protect the cemetery ground from development, bring dignity and respect to the thousands of mental health patients, including war heroes, who died within the Epsom Cluster of asylums and are buried, forgotten and unmarked, on a neglected piece of land in Surrey.

The Friends of Horton Cemetery are always looking for genealogical research volunteers to help. Other volunteer roles are also available. If you are interested in helping, please contact them here.

Since becoming involved with the project I have learned a lot about researching genealogy on websites such as Ancestry and Find My Past, though I am very much still an amateur as the name of this website suggests!

On this website, I share the stories I have researched and written.

If you would like help researching your family tree, get in touch here: laurajanebrown81@outlook.com