Here's a chap who might be worth a better look than my limited research skills can manage.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/brows...-353#highlight
Reading between the lines he clearly took a prostitute to a lodging house and then stabbed her in the stomach saying "I wish I had killed her; that is how a good many more b—y cows ought to be served"
A brief look at who he may have been in ancestry suggests the following biography:
Born: 1852 in Ratclif to Timothy and Mary Ann Kirby (nee Horan)
Residence: 1861 with parents in Stepney
Residence: 1871 With Grandmother (Joanna Horan) in Stepney
Questions:
What became of his family between 1861 & 1871
Where was he from 1881 onwards?
Is this the same John Kirby who was admitted to Hanwell Lunatic Asylum on 26 June 1891 (Jno Kirby)?
Was the Mary Ann Kirby admitted to Carlisle asylum on the same day pure coincidence (probably) or a relative (unlikely but John's mother and sister were both called Mary Ann)
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/brows...-353#highlight
Reading between the lines he clearly took a prostitute to a lodging house and then stabbed her in the stomach saying "I wish I had killed her; that is how a good many more b—y cows ought to be served"
A brief look at who he may have been in ancestry suggests the following biography:
Born: 1852 in Ratclif to Timothy and Mary Ann Kirby (nee Horan)
Residence: 1861 with parents in Stepney
Residence: 1871 With Grandmother (Joanna Horan) in Stepney
Questions:
What became of his family between 1861 & 1871
Where was he from 1881 onwards?
Is this the same John Kirby who was admitted to Hanwell Lunatic Asylum on 26 June 1891 (Jno Kirby)?
Was the Mary Ann Kirby admitted to Carlisle asylum on the same day pure coincidence (probably) or a relative (unlikely but John's mother and sister were both called Mary Ann)
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