Thursday, November 17, 2011

AS SEEN ON TV: ANNIE CHAPMAN

ANNIE CHAPMAN

AS SEEN IN:
'The Outer Limits'

AS PLAYED BY:
Deni DeLory

From Wikipedia:
Annie Chapman (September 1841 – 8 September 1888), born Eliza Ann Smith, was a victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated five women in the Whitechapel area of London from late August to early November 1888.

On 1 May 1869, Annie married her maternal relative John Chapman, a coachman, at All Saints Church in the Knightsbridge district of London. For some years the couple lived at addresses in West London, and they had three children:

Emily Ruth Chapman, born on 25 June 1870.

Annie Georgina Chapman, born on 5 June 1873.

John Alfred Chapman, born on 21 November 1880.

In 1881 the family moved to Windsor, Berkshire, where John Chapman took a job as coachman to a farm bailiff. But young John had been born disabled, while their firstborn, Emily Ruth, died of meningitis shortly after at the age of 12. Soon afterward, both Chapman and her husband took to heavy drinking and separated in 1884.

By the time of her death, young John was said to be in the care of a charitable school and the surviving daughter Annie Georgina, then an adolescent, traveling with a circus in the French Third Republic.

BCnU!

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