This illustration of the attack by the blind laces seller was printed in the IPN on 22/9/1888.
I hadn’t seen it before, but I just spotted it on the excellent Whitechapel Murders File FB group. Thanks are due to Bruce Collie for posting it there.
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Colonel (later Lieutenant-General) Thomas Nuttall, the man who sent (a) Thomas Fogarty down for a 5-stretch at Poona. He was apparently a renowned shikarry (hunter) with the hogspear. Small world.
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Originally posted by Gary Barnett View PostI’m not sure these are all soldier 40869 or that 40869 is our Foggy, though I think both are likely.
Thomas Fogarty Courts Martial
12/11/1874
Woolwich
Desertion/MA kit
168 days hard labour
27/5/1875
Devonport
Insulting language
42 days hard labour
9/3/1878
Sheffield
Breaking from barracks/resisting escort/MA kit/drunk
336 days hard labour
21/2/1879
Sheffield
Desertion/MA kit/Re-enlisting
Fined £1
4/7/1879
Sheffield
Absence/theft and receiving/drunk
168 days hard labour
4/1/1882
Poona (GCM)
Escaping from confinement/desertion
5 years
Transferred from India to Portsmouth (4/5/82), then Millbank (17/5/82) and finally Chatham (27/5/82).
Fogarty was discharged from the RA on the grounds of ‘ignominy’ on 22/5/1882. His 5-year prison sentence was remitted on 10/3/1885.
I can’t seem to access the Chatham and Millbank prison registers that I found a while back. Going via Digital Panopticon, I can only get to transcriptions in FMP.
And that lead me to this:
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Times of India 4th Jan., 1882
Fogarty was presumably one of the soldiers. I wonder if the other was Patrick Linehan?
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When PP was admitted to the STGITE infirmary on 26/8/1888, just three days after appearing at the Tabram inquest, she gave her address as North East Passage. I believe Debra discovered that and posted it on here some time ago. It’s also mentioned in Amanda Harvey Purse’s Martha.
NE Passage was tiny and some distance from Poll’s usual stamping ground. John Satchell, her landlord at 19, George Street, also had a doss-house there. Perhaps that was what attracted Poll. Or possibly she had another connection to that short, narrow alley down by the Ratcliffe Highway. By 1893 she was living there with her husband-to-be, and in 1892 he claimed it had been his base for four years (another of Debs’s great finds).
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Originally posted by Debra Arif View PostRobert, it's "Sequah." I have been trying to find out the identity of this particular "Sequah" but haven't managed to yet. I came across several photographs of him in an archive and was intrigued by his youth and all that amazing hair. He'd have been better off selling Tatcho rather than puling teeth and curing rheumatism.
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Originally posted by Debra Arif View PostI've seen a few Catholic records where the birth date is different on the baptismal record to the birth certificate.
One family I've been looking at this week had children registered with a birth date that was later than the date of their actual baptism!
We are still busy working on the A to Z!
Sorry to jump the gun on the A-Z. It’s a book I am really looking forward to getting my hands on.
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Ah yes, Joe did an article on Sequah.
Here's a very similar pic :
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Originally posted by Robert Linford View PostYes, well done to all.
Debs, hope you don't mind my asking : is that a young David Bowie in your avatar?
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Originally posted by Gary Barnett View PostIt’s a name that lends itself to variants, but even so, Forgeteg is a bit of a stretch.
The DOB’s a bit odd, 22/8 rather than the 12/6 of the baptism record, but it’s got to be him.
BTW, I see Mango books are advertising the release of the A-Z in 2020. Has that fact been posted on here? Congrats to you, Paul and Sean on completing it.
One family I've been looking at this week had children registered with a birth date that was later than the date of their actual baptism!
We are still busy working on the A to Z!
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Originally posted by Robert Linford View PostYes, well done to all.
Debs, hope you don't mind my asking : is that a young David Bowie in your avatar?
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Yes, well done to all.
Debs, hope you don't mind my asking : is that a young David Bowie in your avatar?
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Originally posted by Debra Arif View PostWell done finding the Forgety certificate, Gary. Missed it earlier.
The DOB’s a bit odd, 22/8 rather than the 12/6 of the baptism record, but it’s got to be him.
BTW, I see Mango books are advertising the release of the A-Z in 2020. Has that fact been posted on here? Congrats to you, Paul and Sean on completing it.
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Well done finding the Forgety certificate, Gary. Missed it earlier.
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