Originally posted by Joshua Rogan
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Joe F is on the 1889 electoral register at Mary Ann Street, but that would presumably have been compiled towards the end of 1888. Then in Feb, 1889 he’s in the workhouse recorded as destitute, and by December of that year he was suffering from dementia so advanced that it was recorded as a cause of death. Then there’s the anomaly of the two Cable Street shops he’s connected to at the time of his death and the likelihood that that part of Cable Street may have been in a pretty run down state prior to its demolition to make way for the coal depot. A peek at the PO directory for 1889/90 might be revealing.
I’m not saying this is the case, but on the face of it there could have been plenty of scope for CAL to store/dismember a body within a few hundred yards of Pinchin Street.
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