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| Industry | Publishing |
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| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I researched my family tree and discovered an assortment of colourful and monochrome characters. My Irish great-grandmother travelled to England and married an Englishman who divorced her for drunkenness, aggression, and adultery. After her marital breakdown, she drifted south, arrived in London in 1881, and remained in Whitechapel until 1891. After that, I lose her. She doesn’t appear in the death records or the census. Perhaps she returned to Ireland . . . It seemed an easy link, from researching my family, to Jack the Ripper. My relative followed the same sad course as many Ripper victims. Divorced or widowed women who drifted from doss to doss house and earned money where and how they could. I wondered what it was like for her sharing the years and cobbles with a serial killer. 1901: She's listed in the census as a pauper, hawker, Mile End, Old Town. Update : Found her. Her death registered Whitechapel, March 1903. |
| Interests | Interested in Victorian, Edwardian, social history, crime and criminals. |