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[Debra A]

Is there any consensus on just how pregnant Liz Jackson was when she died?

Her 'husband', John/Jack Fairclough/Faircloth/Smith said she was 8 months pregnant when he abandoned her at the end of April, which means she would have been more or less full-term when she met her end at the beginning of June. Yet her mother states that Liz herself said (sometime in May) that she was expecting to be confined in September, which would make it only about 5-6 months. The doctors who examined her remains thought about 6-7 months.

Who do you think would have known best?

I would go with the mother and the doctors as their estimates are close. Faircloth did try to make out he wasn't the father of Elizabeth's baby so has a motive to say she was further along, if he did say that. He admitted they met on 6th Oct 1888 and she wrote to her sister in early April saying she suspected she was pregnant. If she expected to be confined in early September (she wasn't specific) then the conception would have been in the first two weeks of December and that would mean she was in her 6th month when she died. The size of the uterus would show the term of the pregnancy to within a couple of weeks and wouldn't have undergone any change in size because Elizabeth died before the birth.

[Joshua Rogan]

Is there any consensus on just how pregnant Liz Jackson was when she died?

Her 'husband', John/Jack Fairclough/Faircloth/Smith said she was 8 months pregnant when he abandoned her at the end of April, which means she would have been more or less full-term when she met her end at the beginning of June. Yet her mother states that Liz herself said (sometime in May) that she was expecting to be confined in September, which would make it only about 5-6 months. The doctors who examined her remains thought about 6-7 months.

Who do you think would have known best?