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I have been researching the numerous Cholera epidemics in Hull for some years and used the following resources for my soon to be released book:

The Hull Packet: This featured numerous stories, reports, and victim names, as well as local health updates.  It proved a very valuable tool in naming victims.

The Hull Times: Another great source of information.

The Hull Daily Mail: From 1900 to 1950 they featured numerous retrospective views on the cholera outbreak and mentioned some of the victims.

The Chief Medical Officer for Health's Annual Reports: Held at the Hull History Centre they give a year by year account of the victims, but do not name names.  I used these to cross reference cases. 

Recollections of Hull During Half a Century, James Sibree, Brown and Sons, Hull: A book that gives first hand accounts of what was happening during the Cholera epidemic.  James Sibree was present at the Hull General Cemetery (Spring Bank) and was witness to several deaths and burials.

Living and Dying – A Picture of Hull in the 19th Century, Bernard Foster: A great book with lots of information about the various outbreaks in Hull.  Again used as a cross reference tool.

A Plague on You Sir, George Patrick: Covers numerous outbreaks and diseases in Hull through the years.  Another great tool for cross referencing.

The Hull General Cemetery Registers: Held at the Hull History Centre, I was able to trace the first victim in Hull on the registers which provided a starting point for research into him and his family.  These registers are free to look at and have cause of death listed.

There are quiet a few projects on the way which will see him back in the spotlight.

Thanks for sharing.  I have passed through Rainhill once or twice and got some wonderful old photos that were taken in 1892 for the Rainhill Murder trial.  Copyright prevents me from posting, but they feature Dinham Villa, the street, the church were Marie and the four children were buried and some other general shots of the district.

I have been through to Beverley on several occasions and got photos etc of where Helen Matheson resided and where her mother worked.  Whilst in Beverley it was also written that Deeming had met and proposed to another woman who owned a pub, so I have visited there too. 

I have hundreds of images of the locations in Hull, Portsmouth, Great Yarmouth, and other places associated with Deeming, and a book case full of books, journals, articles, official files and penny dreadfuls on him and his crimes.

I have traced Ann Bailey family back through parish registers to the 1600's.  I have traced Thomas Deeming and his family back to the early 1600's, and whilst Thomas's family resided in Atherstone briefly, they are of no connection to the Deeming family of Atherstone, who were a different clan of Deeming's. 

This is apparant as the Atherstone Deeming's were the subject of several newspaper stories pubished in the Lecister Chronicle and Leicstershire Mercury in the 1870's, couple with the official testimonies of members of the Deeming family at both the Rainhill inquest, and the Windsor inquest.

I have searched both families back to the 1600's and have the family trees composited of birth, marriage, death, christening, burial, wills and probate, criminal, parish, poor law, census, trade directories, marriage banns, immigration, emigration, military records, and much much more and there is no connection between the two other than they shared the same surname and for a brief spell resided in the same district.

Good afternoon, I am trying to find a transcription for a grave in the St Mary's Church, Whitkirk, Leeds. 

The burial took place on May 23rd 1939 and the deceased was named Helen Matheson. 

I have her death entry in the national registers, parish records, probate and a notice from The Times, dated May 22nd 1939.

Is there anyone in the area that could get a transcription or photograph of the grave? 

The information is for a book I am working on, and full acknowledgements will be given for any information.