tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post8258144455929133858..comments2024-03-27T03:22:46.572-07:00Comments on The Cat's Meat Shop: Bedlam!Lee Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-75750071083707809362010-11-02T18:18:01.462-07:002010-11-02T18:18:01.462-07:00Lee,
Great post!
Makes you wonder how many more ti...Lee,<br />Great post!<br />Makes you wonder how many more times this sort of thing happened,<br />SuziSuzi Lovehttp://www.suzilove.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-87688196189557500302010-10-30T08:06:57.120-07:002010-10-30T08:06:57.120-07:00Worse still - perhaps he was mad, of course. I fou...Worse still - perhaps he was mad, of course. I found a possible bankruptcy a couple of years earlier (the press article was partly illegible so hard to be certain).Lee Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-26733810271299367922010-10-30T06:30:39.623-07:002010-10-30T06:30:39.623-07:00He never did escape...
He died in the lunatic asy...He never did escape...<br /><br />He died in the lunatic asylum, Northumberland House, Greens Lane, Stoke Newington,<br />aged 36 and was buried at st martins , ludgate.<br />When he married Jane Pullen in 1838 he was a widower, occupation, Merchant. Father, Thomas was a Tax Collecter.<br />Jane was 21 according to marriage cert (but baptism record makes her 18)fallingonabruisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-38698999057052321032010-10-30T03:31:25.068-07:002010-10-30T03:31:25.068-07:00I should add that the article is from May 2nd, 183...I should add that the article is from May 2nd, 1838 - intimately acquainted is, I think, meant to mean what you imply ... and that ties in with an 'acquaintance' in March, perhaps ...Lee Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-5446295583167198312010-10-30T03:28:17.049-07:002010-10-30T03:28:17.049-07:00Brilliant - thanks. It suggests, at least, that he...Brilliant - thanks. It suggests, at least, that he escaped Bedlam; but a sorry tale in all.Lee Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-26782790341443540382010-10-30T03:12:09.456-07:002010-10-30T03:12:09.456-07:00Theres a marraige of Robert Walls Stephens, hackne...Theres a marraige of Robert Walls Stephens, hackney march 1838.<br />Birth in Pancras, oct/dec quarter of 1838 Robert Walls Stephens (maybe she got pregnant when 'intimately acquainted with him'!<br />Death in Pancras, dec 1838 Robert Walls Stephens(the baby)<br />Death in hackney 1840 Robert Walls Stephensfallingonabruisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-91079855307705593362010-10-29T13:33:13.981-07:002010-10-29T13:33:13.981-07:00Nothing in the press ... if one had access to the ...Nothing in the press ... if one had access to the 1841 census, one might possibly check ... any blog readers out there doing family history?Lee Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09812128348822569086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458031571764013912.post-86865101485681372552010-10-29T12:16:10.173-07:002010-10-29T12:16:10.173-07:00Fascinating. While I've heard of women being c...Fascinating. While I've heard of women being confined in such a manner, it's quite interesting that the family imprisoned the husband in this instance. Did she ever get him free?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com