Barbara Waterhouse

[Jerry Dunlop]

Just found a thread on this on Casebook. There are mentions of Walter Lewis Turner about mid way down. The last post has him living in Shipley in the 1881 census.

http://www.casebook.org/forum/messages/4920/9504.html

[Jerry Dunlop]

From the 1891 census, the couple in Crown St appear to have been Thomas and Jessie Joy, both deaf and dumb. They seem to have been living at the back of 1 Crown St. Thomas was a bookbinder, with 5 offspring.

Thomas and Jessie were married in 1877, and Jessie's surname at the time was 'Turner' so she may well have been a relation.

Found this conversation of relatives of Barbara Waterhouse.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=218919.0

[Debra Arif]

Ah, thanks Debs!

I think I have read about that case. The boy was in a sailors bag with initials on it that was fished out of the water? Is that the one? I never knew they caught the guy.

That's the one, Jerry.

[Mark Davis]

[Mark Davis]

Poor little Barbara...

[Jerry Dunlop]

Thanks Mark,

The clipping below shows the nature of poor Barbara's wounds.

Echo London Middlesex June 13, 1891

[Howard Brown]

Thanks very much, Mark.
What a tragedy.

[Howard Brown]

Leeds Mercury
June 11, 1891
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[Howard Brown]

Leeds Mercury
June 12, 1891
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[Dusty Miller]

Poor Barbara, lived at the back of a Pub, the Back Bull, which is one of the buildings in thuis picture.

I wonder if the kids in the picture were related?