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The Victims section has this to say about McKenzie and McCormack:
"Little is known of Alice McKenzie's early years and upbringing, except that she was born sometime around 1849 and was said to have been raised in Peterborough. She was later to move into the East End of London sometime before 1874, and began living sporadically with a John McCormack (also Bryant) around 9 years later in 1883.
McCormack, an Irishman, was in the employ of some Jewish tailors in Hanbury Street as a porter. He shared lodgings in various doss houses with his common-law wife for around six years, and their last cohabitation was at Mr. Tenpenny's lodging house: 52 Gun Street (Sugden) or 54 Gun Street (Begg et alia), Spitalfields. They moved there around April of 1889."
Both McKenzie and McCormack have eluded tracing in census records.
In an interview I read today (Aberdeen Weekly Journal 18 July 1889) McCormack gives two detail about himself I hadn't seen before. He gives his age as 63 and his place of employment as a clothier's firm named Parnell, in Bishopsgate Street. Any trace of such a firm in the trade directories?
Here is the interview:
"Little is known of Alice McKenzie's early years and upbringing, except that she was born sometime around 1849 and was said to have been raised in Peterborough. She was later to move into the East End of London sometime before 1874, and began living sporadically with a John McCormack (also Bryant) around 9 years later in 1883.
McCormack, an Irishman, was in the employ of some Jewish tailors in Hanbury Street as a porter. He shared lodgings in various doss houses with his common-law wife for around six years, and their last cohabitation was at Mr. Tenpenny's lodging house: 52 Gun Street (Sugden) or 54 Gun Street (Begg et alia), Spitalfields. They moved there around April of 1889."
Both McKenzie and McCormack have eluded tracing in census records.
In an interview I read today (Aberdeen Weekly Journal 18 July 1889) McCormack gives two detail about himself I hadn't seen before. He gives his age as 63 and his place of employment as a clothier's firm named Parnell, in Bishopsgate Street. Any trace of such a firm in the trade directories?
Here is the interview:
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