jobs you wouldnt quote.

[Bitza 5]

Having a chat about jack the ripper with some friends we got on to talking about the prostitutes and that there must have been more then those in the white chapel area of London.

It was mentioned that some of us have never actually seen on the census 1881-1891(for any boarding house where many prostitutes stayed) occupation prostitute.

Has any one found out otherwise in there search. or found that any ancestor was a prostitute during the time of jack the ripper 1888 and even more to the point around the white chapel area.

            Bitza

[PaulineJ]

"prostitute" certainly has been given as an occupation. search this site for examples.

Pauline

[Subaru]

I'm pretty sure my dad's gr aunt was a "lady of the night" in the Eagle Tavern, Kings road around 1861.  She was on the census as being a barmaid - Jane Lawson, b1826.  I didn't think much about this until I found some information about the Eagle Tavern (apparently the song pop goes the weasel is about the Eagle Tavern).  It doesn't get a very good review.  Young impressionable lads going in there, and in their words -

"I have seen women there whom I have recognised next day as common street-walkers."

The owner Benjamin Oliver Conquest employed 160 persons, and was also an entertainer at the theatre.

Ten years later Jane is a coffee shop keeper on Waterloo Road.  I wondered if she maybe saved up her ill-gotten gains to afford it.  Another ten years later, she was in Middlesex lunatic asylum!!!

Oh well, it's nice to have a bit of character in the family tree

[meles]

I'm sorry to tell you that one of the late symptoms of syphilis is insanity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis

and, if your gg aunt was indeed a lady of the night, it is possible she contracted it, and hence her demise in the Middlesex...

meles

[Subaru]

Thanks for that Meles

I never gave that a thought.  I hope she was using her marigolds while she was a coffee shop owner. 

[cathaldus]

an interesting question - What was Jack the Ripper's occupation, given on the Census??

[meles]

Subaru - now that's a death certificate that might be interesting...

Cathaldus - we don't know Jack's real identity, or profession.

meles

[Berlin-Bob]

an interesting question - What was Jack the Ripper's occupation, given on the Census??

Well, that's an easy one 

All you have to do is enter his name in the search box to get the reference and then look at the image ....

and his name was .....  it'll come to me in a minute ...   

Bob

[Lydart]

His name was that person called NK = not known !


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper    for more info !