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Chris Scott
Chief Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 536
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 5:05 pm: |       |
I have come across the 1881 entry for the Bousfield family and thought it might be of interest.
Address:
4 Star Place
London
Head
William Bousfield aged 27
Born In St George's London
Wood chopper
Wife:
Mary Bousfield aged 34
Born in St Georges
Children
James aged 1
Mary aged 5
Bella aged 1 month
All born in St Georges
Martha Tabram lived at this address until 3 weeks before her death |
Robert Clack
Detective Sergeant
Username: Rclack
Post Number: 125
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 6:02 pm: | |
Hi Chris
Do you know if there is a connection with the Arthur Bousfield you posted on the Druitt thread?
All the best
Rob |
Chris Scott
Chief Inspector
Username: Chris
Post Number: 542
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - 8:32 am: | |
Hi Robert
That sprang to mind I must admit! As yet I have not found any connection but to be honest I think the family circumstances would argue against any close connection. William of Star Place (through whom any name connection would occur) is a manual labourer living in the East End, Arthur is of a prefessional family, living with an aged mother who has her own means in Blackheath.
If I find any connection I will of course post it
regards
Chris |
John Plant
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Monday, December 08, 2003 - 3:46 am: | |
Mary Bousfield was my great grandmother (the origin of my interest in the case). Her husband's grandfather was a William Bousefield, who appears to have been a scion of the wealthy Bousefields of Westmoreland. He seems to have disgraced himself and to have had episodes of alcoholism, as a result of which his relationship with the family eventually was broken off. He died in a charitable institution in Bethnal Green, in complete poverty. Two of his three children died in workhouses, and only the line that led to William in Star St survived. So a remote link with Arthur Bousefield in Blackheath is not impossible.
We think that Mary was a second cousin of David Picket, husband of CAtherine Picket who famously complained of Mary Kelly's singing |
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