Thomas Fogarty

[Gary Barnett]

Maybe, but whoever he was, I can't find him in the census at the moment.

Where would a 15/16-year-old East End boy have been incarcerated in 1871, I wonder?

[Robert Linford]

Maybe, but whoever he was, I can't find him in the census at the moment.

[Gary Barnett]

Could this be our boy? 16 in 1871 and active in STGITE.

He and two others, John Blakeley and William Brown, were convicted of simple larceny at the Clerkenwell Sessions on 20th Feb, 1871 and received a sentence of 6 months in stir.

James Pluckrose was aquitted of the charge of receiving.

From The Clerkenwell News 2nd February, 1871:

[Robert Linford]

I have the crabs, I have the crabs!


Regards


Von Smallhausen

[Gary Barnett]

I think Debs first pointed out that the name looked like Coals. I wasted ages looking for Crabs...

[Gary Barnett]

Just the wife of a cabinet maker.

Her age is out by 5 years, though, and on the face of it she looks a respectable wife and mother. Of course, people's fortunes can have their ups and downs, so it's not out of the question that between playing happy families in BG and WH she was living in a brothel down by the docks.

[Robert Linford]

Just the wife of a cabinet maker.

[Gary Barnett]

Looks like Caroline Coals to me. At Bethnal Green in 1881, West Ham in 91.

Occupation?

[Robert Linford]

Looks like Caroline Coals to me. At Bethnal Green in 1881, West Ham in 91.

[Gary Barnett]

Caroline C...

The discussion on Casebook about the date of Margaret Millous/Millows's admission to the London Hospital has got me wondering whether this lady could after all have been the victim of the knife attack by the unnamed blind man on the day of Annie Chapman's murder.

The press report of the incident states that the woman was attacked on 8th September and was initially treated by a police surgeon at Commercial Street station before being transferred to the London Hospital, where she was detained as an in-patient.

Caroline C.. is recorded as being admitted on the 10/9. She was classified as an 'accident' admission, the first of the day, and had suffered an 'incised wound of (the) cheek'. She was discharged on 21st Sept. Perhaps the recording of admittances was indeed delayed until emergency patients were stabilised.

What I find most interesting is her address: 95, Pennington Street. A year earlier 95, PS had been identified as a brothel by one of Charles Booth's researchers and it appears to have had a dubious reputation for at least a decade. It was just across the Highway from Wellclose Square, at various times the stomping ground of Fogarty, Pearly Poll and Margaret Sullivan.

I wish I could decipher Caroline's surname and find out more about her.

[Gary Barnett]

There was a Frederick Poussin in Chambers St 1891 but he was 12.

Yes, Rob, we discussed him on the PP thread. He was French born and if he was RC, then the English Martyrs would have been where he worshipped.

[Robert Linford]

There was a Frederick Poussin in Chambers St 1891 but he was 12.

[Gary Barnett]

Looking for Poussins, I found two who appear to have been nuns on the 1911 census. Beatrice and Marthe Poussin (no relation to Frederick as far as I know) were 'inmates' at The Convent, Grey Friars, High Street, Colchester. The vast majority of the women listed there were French.

The previous household on the census was at Winsley House, 85, High Street. Apparently a family named Lechmere lived there in the 18th century.

(Where are those guys?)

[Gary Barnett]

Looking for Poussins, I found two who appear to have been nuns on the 1911 census. Beatrice and Marthe Poussin (no relation to Frederick as far as I know) were 'inmates' at The Convent, Grey Friars, High Street, Colchester. The vast majority of the women listed there were French.

[Gary Barnett]

Here's the first witness's name from the church cert. It's in the same handwriting as the rest of the information, so it was presumably written by the officiating priest, father Timothy O'Ryan.