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StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 17 Mar 2010 18:11

haha i was just coming to put the link up lol x

Researching:
It wasn't me

Lorraine

Lorraine Report 17 Mar 2010 18:08

anyone who missed it here you can watch it on itv player
www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=100249

Researching:
derry,breakwell,kinnish,wadlow,penny,smith,woodward,cartwright.

StrayKitten

StrayKitten Report 17 Mar 2010 18:06

its a new series, it should be on iplayer online, i cant wait for next weeks,


yes it was an insite into how they lived, but that doesnt make up for what she did, it was disgusting, and if that lady hadnt gone back looking for her hcild how mnay more would she have killed, :(:(:(

it also showed, drugs abuse was as popular then as it is today sadly x

Researching:
It wasn't me

PollyPoppet

PollyPoppet Report 17 Mar 2010 17:59

Hi I watched some of it
i was amazed she got away with it for so long
those poor babies
possibly her in 1891
1891 census

Name Amelia Thomas
Age 62
Estimated Year of Birth 1829
Relationship to Head of Household Patient
Occupation Charwoman
Address London County Lunatic Asylum
District Croydon, Croydon
Parish
Administrative County Surrey
Birth Place --
Birth County ?

Sally

Sally Report 17 Mar 2010 17:41

Yes I watched it Pat...... I saw the last one that author hosted as well about Myra Hindley.......it is on ITV at 10.35 on a Tuesday......

I have seen this one before on Sky, but they are so well done it is worth watching them again........it just showed how easy it was to dispose of people all those years ago........luckily the law was starting to tighten with regard to baby farming.....

Glad we live today.....

MarilynB

MarilynB Report 17 Mar 2010 15:41

It was called Ladykillers, I missed it too, just checked to see if it was repeated anytime, but it was just a one off.

Researching:
Stirrup, Williams, Winter, Newton, Johnson, Barrett, Bruce, Bruen, Hartley, Proffit, Rogers, all in Manchester and loads of other names and places

Carol

Carol Report 17 Mar 2010 15:38

hi pat i never saw the programme what time was it on itv and was it last night as in the 16th march

Pat Kendrick

Pat Kendrick Report 17 Mar 2010 15:27

I hadn't heard of her before but they did say how she changed her name to avoid detection. Forgot about the census. Must have been a shock for her daughter as Amelia said she didn't know.

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 17 Mar 2010 15:19

I missed that Pat! I have read the book many years ago, if I remember rightly I picked her up on a couple of census returns 41,51 and then she married a Mr. Thomas I think, and I lost her.....and of course she then used lots of names!

She was born in Gloucestershire as Amelia Hobley.

Annx

Pat Kendrick

Pat Kendrick Report 17 Mar 2010 14:09

Did anyone see the programe on Amelia Dyer (baby farmer) last night on ITV it certainly gave an insight into the conditions in the 1800's that women with illegitimate children faced. She murdered loads of babies. Hard to believe what some women can do. Poor little babies some starved to death others throttled.

Pat