I'm reading The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale at the moment, about the Road Murder of 1860.
Jonathan Whicher was the Scotland Yard detective sent to solve this. The author who has done her research says
"...15 April 1838 a woman who called herself Elizabeth Whicher, formerly Green, nee Harding had given birth ...to a boy named Jonathan Whicher"
clearly she didn't get nee off the birth cert!
She goes on to say that on the birth cert the father is recorded as "Jonathan Whicher, police constable" and that "their address" (though it could of course just be Elizabeth's!) was 4 Providence Row.
She says there is no death cert for either Elizabeth or Jonathan junior nor do they appear in censuses.
In 1841 Jonathan senior appears as a single man at Hunter Place police station house in Holborn.
Can anyone track down Elizabeth or her child?
This is the birth ref:
Jonathan Whicher
1838 Apr-May-Jun Lambeth Volume: 4 Page: 312
Jonathan Whicher was the Scotland Yard detective sent to solve this. The author who has done her research says
"...15 April 1838 a woman who called herself Elizabeth Whicher, formerly Green, nee Harding had given birth ...to a boy named Jonathan Whicher"
clearly she didn't get nee off the birth cert!
She goes on to say that on the birth cert the father is recorded as "Jonathan Whicher, police constable" and that "their address" (though it could of course just be Elizabeth's!) was 4 Providence Row.
She says there is no death cert for either Elizabeth or Jonathan junior nor do they appear in censuses.
In 1841 Jonathan senior appears as a single man at Hunter Place police station house in Holborn.
Can anyone track down Elizabeth or her child?
This is the birth ref:
Jonathan Whicher
1838 Apr-May-Jun Lambeth Volume: 4 Page: 312
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